South Carolina attorney Murdaugh sentenced to life for murdering wife and son
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Richard Alex Murdaugh a disgraced South Carolina lawyer who was guilty of killing his wife and son in 2021 was sentenced for life after due investigation was conducted by the prosecutors and the state law enforcement agencies.
Murdaugh who was said to be addicted to opioid had stolen and defrauded colleagues and lied in several occasions to extort money from people around. Being addicted to opioid had made to act illicitly and have become wild in his dealings with people.
A South Carolina jury on Thursday declared Murdaugh, 54, guilty on two counts of gunning down his wife Maggie, 52, and youngest son, Paul, 22, on their family estate on June 7, 2021.
At a hearing on Friday, Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to prison for the remainder of his natural life.
Murdaugh, the scion of an influential legal family in an area west of Charleston, had faced a minimum of 30 years in prison for each of the two counts of murder under South Carolina law. Prosecutors had sought a sentence of life without parole.
The judge said Murdaugh's duplicitous attitudes during the trial shows that he's a disgrace to his family's reputation of just lawyers. The judge also referenced Murdaugh's addiction to opioids, which the defense sought to use as an excuse for their client's behavior, including his lying to investigators about his whereabouts on the night of the killings.
The particular case had drawn the attention of the intensed media and this due to his family's political reputation. For decades, his family members have been the leading prosecutors in the area, and Murdaugh was a prominent personal injury attorney in the state.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors portrayed Murdaugh as a serial liar and argued that only he had the means and the opportunity to commit the murders. Prosecutors said he gunned down his wife and son to distract from an array of financial misdeeds, including the theft of millions of dollars from his law partners and clients -- money used to feed a years-long addiction to opioids and support an expensive lifestyle.
"It doesn't matter who your family is, it doesn't matter how much money you have," Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor, said after the verdict on Thursday. "If you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in South Carolina."
This to me is what is called justice and equity. Anyone that breaches the law should be bought before the law and prosecuted according and in the case of Richard Murdaugh the law has taken it's course.