*TRIAL NOTES:* 00:00:00 Clerk of Court Becky Hill Takes the Stand 00:00:23 Direct Examination - Creighton Waters 00:12:08 Cross Examination - Dick Harpootlian 00:44:41 Redirect - Creighton Waters 00:49:40 Judge Toal Questions Becky Hill #CourtTV Catch up on the Murdaugh Family Murders here: www.courttv.com/tag/alex-murdaugh/?
Hill was not believable at all. She seemed to be dancing around all of the questioning by the judge. You could tell she was lying by the look on her face. She wrote a book about the trial, for Heaven's sake. However, she couldn't recall anything.... 🤦♀️
I think it had more to do with the fact that it was quicker to self-publish, since she would then be the first to tell her story of the trial and everyone would buy HER book instead of someone else's.
Everytime Becky Hill referred to the bailiff as "Mr. Bill," I kept picturing the Play-Doh character from SNL, specifically the one where he took a shower. 😂
I hate she couldn't keep her mouth closed but I am even MORE happy that the Judge Denied new trial, but NO thanks to her. She almost got a murderer a new trial!
that may have been the intent all along. She had to have known Murderdaugh from her job and his. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if both her and Juror Z have some offshore bank accounts waiting for them after this.
The judge admitted all the evidence in the affidavits into evidence for an appeal that she said was beyond her abilities. So I believe they will have to retry the case.
@@knightwriter2989Also, he killed his family members so actually, as her family, no I wouldn’t want another trial either. (Just as hers doesn’t in real life.) 🤓
Rebecca Hill, the embattled Colleton County Clerk of Court, rewarded herself with two bonuses this year, emails show, boosting her pay in a way that state officials have said may violate the law (news headline)
Poor Miss Becky. Betcha she didn't have a clue she'd be on the other side - the witness stand, when she began this journey. So simple to get in over your head when the lure of fame and fortune enters the picture. Imagine - she'd never even been on a plane prior to this - let alone going to the Big Apple.
A new jury will still see that timestamped video on Paul's phone though, which is the key to the whole case because it completely unravels Murderdaugh's defense's timeline with the bullshit with the grandpa and changing cars and driving to Savannah, and changing clothes and sleeping on the couch and "losing" guns and all the rest. The state did a great job laying out the more accurate timeline, and they'll have no trouble doing that again.
Me either! Wow! I mean they had this trial to see if even one juror was influenced & just one was but it was one & still no new trial! This woman should be brought in charges & go to jail!
The Judge did not find Becky credible, has she still been working as Clerk of court? Will State go after Becky now that Alex’s hearing is over?. Your thoughts Court TV
I was so hoping that all this was just a way for Alex to try and get another trial, unfortunately I believe this woman is lying and trying to save her tail. Writing a book should not have been legal, should be a conflict of interest and any funds made by the sale of this book should be turned over to the courts. The judge can see right through Hill’s lies and is not cutting her any slack.
The co-author of the book cut all ties with her and apologized to his readers.. and donated his part of the proceeds from the book. To try and gain his reputation back, he said he was blindsided by Becky Hill. He never thought she would do the thing she did.
As someone who works in the courts in NYC I couldnt imagine a clerk up here doing that they’d be charged with felony jury tampering ASAP as should she. Cut the down south small town bs out- arrest her.
Absolutely. Working in the legal field, the stuff she did is absolutely abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated. And I felt that way just when we found out she wrote the book, before I heard about the jury tampering stuff.
Beck Hill is currently under investigation for additional charges...the info is online...One of them involves an investigation to do with allegations that Ms Hill used her elected position for personal gain.
Absolutely agree!! I'm on a jury now and the difference in professionalism is amazing. This thing they call becky should be in JAIL doing jail time for this. This would never fly up here in the northeast 😡 She should be fined, lose her job and be in jail for this BS and for lying under oath. Why is there no consequences?!😡😡
Each time Becky Hill stated, "That's what I heard, or that's what I was told".... I wish someone would've asked her who she heard this from? Who told you this? Etc.
I think that one of the reasons why this is so triggering is because I am on a jury panel right now and I see how a professional clerk is supposed to behave and becky is wildly unprofessional and should be jailed just for the fact that she lied under oath. That's disgusting and warrants jail time and a huge fine
Then so many people watching are happy with the decision of this judge. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Like him (does anyone??) or not, he deserves a fair trial. Everyone does. If those happy with this decision were on trial and this had happened to them they would possibly see it is really about making sure people actually do their jobs correctly.
This judge was annoying the hell out of me at first. BUT - I think she was letting Mr. Harpootlian go hard on her to teach her a lesson that yes, she did cross a line and shouldn’t have written a book, but also doesn’t want another Murdaugh trial. 😅
A new trial should have been ordered. When a clerk tampers with a jury for economic gain that’s a criminal act! What kind of hoot and Annie are they running down there?
@@Solitude47152the same hoot and Annie the murdaugh family has been a part of for decades ° amazing how things change yet stay the same ° murdaugh was all for it until he ended up behind bars ° karma karma karma
She absolutely tainted that jury. Regardless of the defendant’s guilt, every person in this country deserves and should expect a fair hearing. Did we all get that today? I guess it depends on what the judge decides. It doesn’t make it right.
Grandma is too big for her diaper...lying, writing a book as an employee of THE COURT on a case!!! 😮😮, playing a sweet tea drinking mamaw on the stand just chirping out the bs. Sheesh! Shes dangerous.
She reads exactly like my narcissist ex. Disingenuous to the core, the duper's delight, the prissy public manners, and the undercurrent of selfishness & impossible-to-ignore profit motive for all her choices leading up to today.
So she wrote the book but can't remember anything!!! Such a liar! If I was Buster I would have her in prison if it took me years to do so! I mean why didn't she get handcuffed yesterday as soon as the trial was over?????
this whole thing of a court clerk writing a book, incentivized by the potential of making a shitload of money and having clear bias of guilt is in real bad taste. and i feel it's near impossible her feelings of alex's guilt did not taint the jurors.
She's a terrible liar. How despicable. In the name of justice alone, he deserves a new trial. She should be fired. Due process is the single most important thing. She spat in the face of it. Despicable.
I agree with the justice, miss Becky wanted her 15 minutes basically. Well she got her 15 minutes but not in the way she planned and gave everyone else months and possibly years of grief of this ongoing saga. She is infamous not famous like she wanted
Did she just tell the prosecutor that she never spoke to any juror about personal matters and then tell Harpootlian that she knew a female juror had a restraining order against her ex-husband? Lord have mercy.
Sorry, a new trial should of been granted. I dont think there would be a different verdict but thats not up for us to decide. She stepped over the line, period. A new trial wasnt granted to save money... You can't pick and choose what laws and rules are to be followed... all or none. I feel the man is guilty, no doubt....but i didnt make the rules or laws.
Y’all are so nuts. This guy deserves NOTHING! He didn’t give his wife and son a chance. He didn’t give all those people he stole money from a chance. Who cares how they got there but that they did. How can anyone defend this guy ?
@@JasonCannon-th3pc take him out of the picture. It has nothing to do with him and everything to do with law and due process. If you dont stand up for your rights, you lose them. You cant throw that all away because of how you feel about someone.... I know that rat bastard is guilty.... but it has nothing to do with what me or you feel about him. Could just as easily be anyone else in a totally different situation.
It seems all of BH’s improper behavior should be reason behind this trial being unfair. Everything she did to impose on the jury……those statements, driving a juror home( where you know she was trying to influence) statements she made about AM’s gestures while on the stand implicating that he’s guilty before jury could get into deliberations.
She should not have been sent to fetch a juror. That should have been the bailiff. The Clerk should have been in her office, not in the jury hallway or room.
This guy who knows he is guilty will be cluttering the system with every technicality under the sun to try and be set free based on a technicality. Worst possible human being there is.
Receiving a fair trial isn’t a technicality. Everyone, likable or not, deserves a fair trial. Things like this just so old cannot happen. What is you or someone you love were in trial and this all happened? If people do not get a fair trial then our entire system is completely broken. Making sure people actually do their jobs is far from a technicality.
@@RaeAnn_1202 The fact Juror Z testified she was influenced by the clerk should be enough for a new trial, one would think. Also the other jurors listening to juror Z via their cell phones is mind boggling and suggest this jury is a group of immature kids. Yet jury behavior and juror Z claiming she was influenced is an after thought. She did not come forward during the trial. In this case the judge must look at all the evidence. The jury is not evidence. The judge in effect by defacto must view it as a bench trial… and ask ‘could any other outcome have occurred without a jury?’ She ruled correctly. So not every misstep or even actions by the clerk are sufficient cause. Without proof, juror Z is nothing. I do believe juror Z and I do believe the clerk is lying. But that isn’t evidence.
@@StarwaterCWSshe testified to it, but they provided no supporting evidence that it influenced her or the rest of the jury. If the defense makes the claim, they have to provide evidence beyond an easily influenced Juror who has changed her story at least twice so far and a corrupt, narcissist clerk of court who sat there and lied about literally anything and everything. If they can support their claims with more evidence, they'll be able to bring it back to the court. But the actual evidence against him is very damning.
She's an officer of the court! Why in the world would you publish a book on a high profile trial such as this, plagiarize the content, and think that you're going to get away that??!! Wow
The thing that really makes me feel that he is guilty was the things that he did not do. If it were me and I were on trial being factually Innocent but convicted, I would be screaming from the rooftop that my son and my wife's murderer is loose. He never ever said anything about that.
How awkward is this though in all the trials ive seen ive never seen a court employee grilled like this. She needs fired shes overstepping role boundaries role has went to her head
It is very tacky that she would PUBLISH private conversations she had with jurors airing out information on what seems to be a very contentious situation between husband/wife divorce, restraining orders.... she is so unprofessional and is clearly lying .... she is old enough to know better. 56:21 SHE WAS SCARED ...... & you STILL wrote about her...... absolutely despicable to do to someone.
The jury along with the whole trial was a joke. The jury a was dang embarrassment. On their phones watching the case? You know they did that during the trial too. I think Murdaugh is guilty but I still think he deserved a new trial. The whole trail from the jury to the clerk was a joke. I honestly don’t see how it was found to be a fair trial. I’m not trying to be rude, I just think the jury and clerk should all be ashamed of themselves. The jury sat in the jury room waiting to be questioned and watched the trial live. They find it entertaining, it’s entertainment to them, they didn’t take it serious. They all knew better, half of them will likely write books and do interviews to get their 15 minutes of fame. I have little fait in the system after watching this mess.
So.... Obviously, as most all of us believe, Becky Hill, lied before Judge Toal under oath on the witness stand. It was pretty obvious, that Judge Toal seemed to think so too. The defense's motion for a new trial, which was denied by Judge Toal, was based upon allegations of jury tampering by Becky Hill. A big question in my mind, is this: Will Becky Hill now be charged with perjury for lying while under oath? To me, as I understand the law, she should be. But this is the Murdaugh case, and unsurprisingly, things have not been what they would seem to be, on more than one occasion. Would anyone here care to weigh in on this? All opinions considered and appreciated, thank you!
Becky Hill should at least be investigated to determine whether she should face any charges. She has set the poorest example of her job duties! More importantly, she has tarnished the integrity of what most strive for in the court system. She comes across as having been schooled as to how to dance around the questions. She comes across as arrogant. And to many people…making “only” $100,000 off of that lousy book is a substantial amount of money. This isn’t even about Murdaugh in the big picture now. It’s about the integrity of the justice system! Murdaugh is a horrible person! Even horrible people deserve FAIR trials. ALL of this could have been avoided if this woman would have just done her job with integrity, kept her mouth shut and not gone on tv, not written a book.
If there was ever a retrial does colleton county have the money to pay all those experts all over again? I can imagine the defense would seek a different venue
Poot deftly handled that exchange about her daughter. Laying ground for why would she be a better juror than anyone else, no law enforcement background, etc. And classic response to her disagreeing with his version of the exchange.
I think the judge allowed too much information into the testimony about issues of “poetic license” in the book and it’s dubious relevance to information that would have prejudiced a juror. In the end the judge’s refusal to grant a new trial seemed appropriate but he sure had the court clerk twisting in the wind for quite awhile. Tough case to preside over as a judge for sure.
@@marthahalsey-on4bn I hope it works out, Ms. Hill made some mistakes but I am left with/ the impression she did not try to sway the jury.. I could be wrong though. On the other hand I would not trust Murdaugh ( based on information from the trials) any further than I could throw him.
She wanted to make money off the backs of these two people that were murdered ,thats true but he still murdered them but she should never have written a book about any csse she was involved in .I wonder if she had been a little jealous of the Family and the power that Alec had there in that town and liked seeing him be brought down ? I also saw her in the netflix special about all the family ,what Paul had done and then Alec ,she wanted fame and money and could have caused this creep to get a new trial but it didnt happen ,No New trial .
Firstly, does anyone else find Becky writing her book to be a conflict of interest? She seems “prepared”… even coached. I find her to be 100% incredible. Her selective memory is frustrating. Murdagh deserves a new trial, even though I do think he’s guilty. 100% fairness is a right to which we are all entitled. If his case was jeopardized in any way, it is not just.
I think she is enjoying this circus! I didn’t know the jury has a waitress - baby sitter. Only thing she didn’t do was clinch her pearls. What a waste of tax dollars. She should be fired! I didn’t know judge was woman until the ringmaster said “no mam”. I do think ‘she’ made right decision to NO NEW TRIAL.
As much as I hate having to watch Alex’s face, I adore watching Creighton Waters! And Becky, you’re a doll. And smart as hell. You are one brave woman who has survived the Murdaugh deceit and influence. Please don’t let those bastards get you down.
Ms becky has cost thousands if this goes to a retrial if necessary. Lot of these court rmployees get full of ego. Get cocky. Shes denying it all. No court employee should be able to profit from trials. Interesting her grandfather was best buddies with alexs father.
Its ridiculous the previous judge gave his OK to big mouth Becky to write this book. Of course, it's gonna come back and bite them and big mouth Becky frankly should be not be involved in any court trial.
She will be fine, she is part of the judicial system, they won't prosecute their own. She saw 15 minutes of fame and grabbed it with both hands, court tv (especially Julia Grant) aided and abetted her indulgence.
