'I felt sorry for him,' South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman said. 'I felt that he was just in a position where he could not, where if there’s a hole that he could go into, he would dive in that hole and keep going to the lowest depths.'
His family’s name ran so deep in South Carolina’s Lowcountry that a portrait of Randolph “Buster” Murdaugh Jr., his late grandfather and a top prosecutor for 46 years,Newman, who spoke to "TODAY" alongside one of his daughters, Jocelyn Newman, an at-large judge of the South Carolina Circuit Courts, said he believed Murdaugh would be haunted by the murders of his wife and son.
"I cannot imagine him having a peaceful night, knowing what he did," he said. "I’m sure if he had an opportunity to do it over again, he’d never do it.""I felt sorry for him," he said. "I felt that he was just in a position where he could not, where if there’s a hole that he could go into, he would dive in that hole and keep going to the lowest depths.
“I respect this court, but I’m innocent,” Murdaugh, shackled in a tan jail jumpsuit, had told the judge. “I would never under any circumstances hurt my wife, Maggie, and I would never under any circumstances hurt my son, Paul Paul.” “It might not have been you,” Newman had responded at the time. “It might have been the monster you’ve become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills. Maybe you become another person. I’ve seen that before. The person standing before me was not the person who committed the crime, though is the same individual.”"You know, just scrolling through Instagram and seeing a Dateline post about Alex Murdaugh was just amazing.
Newman declined to answer certain questions about the trial given the pending appeal. More of "TODAY"'s interview with the judge will be featured as part of a Dateline special later this year.
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