Alex Murdaugh admitting to being a liar was 'clever defense jiu-jitsu': Retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro

Former NYPD inspector and lawyer Paul Mauro joined "Sunday Night successful America pinch Trey Gowdy" to talk nan defense strategy by Alex Murdaugh's team. Mauro said he agreed pinch nan determination to put Murdaugh connected nan stand.

"The defense seems to person called an audible. They look to person decided, 'Okay, we person mislaid each awesome evidentiary proceeding successful this case. We've been taking connected a batch of water, and possibly we amended rotation nan dice.' So they decided to put him up location and, you know, I person to opportunity astatine this point, I work together pinch that decision," Mauro said. "I deliberation that he, whether you consciousness he's blameworthy aliases innocent, etc., 1 has to admit that successful ray of nan circumstances, he acquitted himself beautiful well. He obfuscated nan timeline arsenic he could."

Murdaugh stands accused of committing nan fatal shootings of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and their youngest son, Paul Murdaugh, adjacent nan canine kennels located astatine nan family's Moselle hunting property successful Islandton connected June 7, 2021.

Evidence shown successful Alex Murdaugh’s proceedings for execution astatine nan Colleton County Courthouse connected Thursday, February 2, 2023.  (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post and Courier/Pool)

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In nan first week of nan trial, Rogan Gibson testified that he could spot Murdaugh astatine nan crime segment astatine astir 8:50 p.m., which is nan clip that prosecutors allege nan crimes were committed. Gibson, a adjacent friend and neighbour of Murdaugh, was questioned astir a 50-second video from Paul's cellphone that was recorded astatine 8:44:49 p.m. The video was ne'er sent. During cross-examination, Gibson was asked astir nan voices successful nan video and claimed that he recognized nan voices of Maggie, Paul, and Alex Murdaugh.

According to nan South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), Murdaugh stated successful 3 abstracted videotaped interviews pinch agents that he was not coming connected nan nighttime successful question.

On Thursday, however, Murdaugh acknowledged to being coming astatine nan canine kennels astatine 8:45 p.m. connected June 7, conscionable 4 minutes anterior to prosecutors' allegation that Maggie and Paul were fatally shot.

"I wasn't reasoning clearly. I don't deliberation I was tin of reason," Murdaugh said. "And I lied astir being retired there, and I'm truthful sorry that I did. I'm sorry."

Diagram of nan conception of Alex Murdaugh's spot wherever his wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul, were murdered. (Fox News )

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When charismatic Creighton Waters asked Murdaugh why he continued nan lie, Murdaugh testified, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave. But erstwhile I told a lie, I mean, I told my family and I had to support lying."

Mauro pointed retired to Fox News' Trey Gowdy that admitting to being a liar could thief nan Murdaugh defense strategy.

"He owned, you know, successful a unusual way, owning that he's a liar helps his defense comparative to that video, because now he's saying, 'Yeah, I lied astir that because I didn't spot SLED. I was paranoid because of my oxy use,'" Mauro said. "And truthful possibly we tin bargain nan truth that he lied initially astir being astatine nan scene. So location was immoderate clever defense jujitsu location and a batch of this, I think, was very thought out."

Alex Murdaugh takes nan guidelines astatine double execution trial. (POOL)

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Mauro notes that this defense strategy is clever and well-thought-out, and while 1 whitethorn not personally judge it, it only takes 1 personification from nan assemblage to bargain it.