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The South Carolina judge who presided over Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder trial did not mince words on Tuesday as he spoke out for the first time on the infamous case.
“I don’t believe that he hated his wife, and certainly I did not believe that he did not love his son, but he committed the unforgivable, unimaginable crime, and there’s no way that he’ll be able to sleep peacefully,” Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman said in a speech at his alma mater, Cleveland State University, on Tuesday evening.
Newman shared his thoughts weeks after the conclusion of Murdaugh’s six-week trial, where the former lawyer was convicted of murdering his wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul, near the dog kennels of the family’s hunting estate in June 2021. The day after the swift conviction, Newman delivered a searing speech slamming Murdaugh as a “monster” whose conduct was worse than many death row inmates before handing him two life sentences.
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