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In a rare move, a Franklin County judge has tossed a man's murder conviction — the "wackiest" mixed verdict by a jury according to the man's attorney.
The law, if you murder, justice will be done in south carolina. >> murdaugh faces 30 to 50 years in prison without parole on each murder count. he also faces up to five years for each weapons charge. sentencing is set for later this morning. >> i've got to say, you know, gene, usually, if the jury is out for three hours, they come back in, i don't know. you sense the weight of these charges are so grave and you have so much evidence. usually, that means, you know, they're going to dismiss him. i'm just surprised that they came to this that quickly. >> yeah. look, it took them three hours, it s...
Receive 38 years as a minimum term. we were just hearing there from sam atari, the mp for ilford south. within the last hour it fell to the judge to deliver her verdict at the old bailey. after taking into consideration all of the evidence. overall, my conclusion is that the defendant is entitled to less than the maximum discount on the murder count and i would allow one eighth, although given the length of the term i will impose the maximum discount alloy can be five years. considering all of these features, after a trial of the minimum term would have been 43 years. i allow five years as i h...
>> in the end, the judge agreed. four months after ryan widmer's conviction, he ruled that the husband would get another trial. the not guilty verdict on the aggravated murder count, however, would remain. so the prosecution could only retry him on the second count of unpremeditated murder. his mother scraped together enough cash to post the $400,000 bond for him. ryan was released from prison. by then he had already spent five months behind bars. >> the quest for justice can deplete both bank accounts and emotions. >> yes. >> how far are you prepared to go? >> i'm prepared to go to the day i ...
Correct, the panel had directly violated the judge's instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. the allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. this attorney runs the ohio innocence project. he saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. >> it's unusual for a juror to come forward and reveal that the jurors had violated the rule us and performed experiments and brought that into deliberations. >> the judge began reviewing affidavits from the jurors about just what went on during the deliberations. in one of those sworn statements, a jur...