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One of the jurors brought some eggs in potentially from their farm or something like that to share with their fellow jurors. they all had them still. i dont think anybody expected to hear they had a dozen eggs back there. >> we only have one alternate left. >> i have so many questions, but you make a good point. this is the last possible moment to be replaceing a juror. they only have one left after that. thank you so much for all of that reporting. now we have criminal defense attorney sara aza...

Murdaugh and i presume thats what theyll do with their rebuttal testimony. i think they probably should have owned the possibility after two shooter scenario earlier in the case because we knew this was coming. weve talked about it well before the case began. >> so youre saying they need to offer essentially an explanation of how there could be two shooters but that paul murdaugh was one of them. >> yeah. i think the best thing they can do if theyre doing away with the potential reasonable doubt...

South carolinas premier trial attorneys, he knew exactly how to answer it. they had been rehearsed. when the prosecutor took over, he is starting to build quite a case against mr. murdaugh. >> thats right. the direct testimony we saw, as a hardworking honest family man, still in from a paraplegic and lied to the police who supposedly are his cronies. >> steve: right, and much was made during the defense presentation and the cross-examination about his addiction to painkillers and stuff like that...

Financial wrong doing. the defense has said, yes, set that aside. why does it follow that because he was getting ready to be revealed as a fraud, but why would he kill his wife and son who he loved. >> well see what happens this week with the defense presentation. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. watch the three-part docuseries "low country." it starts tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. where randi kaye, i think, has turned in some great reporting on the trial. still to c...

Are referring. in terms of timeline, i think its difficult to know when it can be done to fall. this doesnt dish until it committee has done, the justice department has to anticipate cross examination of these witnesses. they did have that the committee. they have to make sure that they can comply with rules of evidence. hearsay is not admissible in the court. so they have to go back to the firsthand witnesses and these things. there is no defense presentation of the democratic committee. the do...

Some sort of independent investigation but you have dealt with legal trials all your professional life and would it not perhaps be more interesting to viewers if you had, lets say, a prosecution and a defense presentation of sorts during a hearing like this so people could debate it among themselves? it might actually draw more interest. >> if that is what you were really interested in, which is drawing people in, obviously the tension of a confrontation between different perspectives is what is...

Their job to see which witness tay feel is more credible. you mention kim potter will take the stand am some point. it is not clear the timing which that will happen. but the judge did ask her earlier this morning if she stands by her decision to take the stand. kim potter said she did. kim potter and the defense presentation could come at any moment, andrea. >> thank you, shaq brewster. and paul henderson, is that the right move? what a good defense lawyer would do? police officers generally ar...

And how these jurors should come to a decision in justifying that penalty. so obviously they were weighing and evaluating the factors in 17 of the 30 charges that he was convicted in where they analyze that there were multiple people that were harmed. that they presented evidence talking about the substantial planning and the intent that went into this crime, and the heinous nature of this crime. and so this verdict really was that jury rejecting the defense presentation that was made to them, t...

Contention that he acted in self-defense. that includes, of course, the most recent witness, mr. root. it includes dr. di maio and his expert testimony in regard to the gunshot. also other injuries my client suffered. we also have a number of voice witnesses, if you will, those witnesses who have come back and testified before this court that they had no issue whatsoever of affirming their pgs and belief and testimony under oath that it was my client who was screaming for help. again, i dont wan...

Developing news right now. jerry sandusky, will he or wont he take the stand in his own defense during the sexual abuse trial against him? well, on the way to court, and into court today, sanduskys defense attorney was asked if he would call his client to the stand and all he would say is, stay tuned. inside that courtroom, the defense calmed two of the states witnesses. state troopers and grilled them about one of the accusers. nbcs john yang joins me now from bellefonte, pennsylvania. explain ...