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>> griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. >> ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday's verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guil...

>> griff: it sure. will let's bring in susan williams, south carolina based criminal defense attorney and susan, i spoke to you right in front of that courthouse the day after this double murder. >> here we are now, your reaction to this verdict? >> i was completely shocked. after i heard that there was a verdict, i actually thought that it was a hoax. because i had no idea that the verdict would come in in less than two hours. which is about the same amount of time that alec murdaugh spent on the stand. >> ainsley: you know, we have all watched this case. i know you live in south carolina. so...

>> charles: yeah, meantime the prosecution, which had a tough and complicated case to prove from the very beginning said justice will prevail in south carolina. no matter where you come from or your status. >> it doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn't matter what you think, how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. >> yeah. we made it to that conclusion on that thursday after an alternate juror was swapped in thursday morning after the judge dismissed a member for allegedly talk...

Money but that doesn't mean that he's a murderer. but as the trial went on and you saw how his decisions affected his friends, affected his family, people got on the stand and they were crying and then you watch the netflix thing and then you watch the low country on apple tv. you got a sense of how harmful he had -- what he had done to people's lives throughout the years. and then i started to think people are getting sick of this guy. he's going to be guilty. what did you think? >> ainsley, i think the smoking gun of this case was the video of alex at the kennel. why do i think this? he cons...

Own conjecture just from seeing what judge newman said yesterday, a little bit of what he said, i think the judge newman is probably going to give him life and certainly is -- whenever alex said that the person who did this thought about it or planned it for a long time, i think the jury believed him when he said that. >> griff: hey, susan, let me walk it past this trial and go back to as ainsley was pointing out. we heard in this trial all the other situations from the death of mallory beach and then of course the reopening of the steven schmidt case. i just have been texting in the last 30 m...