La octava edición de los Latin American Music Awards 2023 se realizará el 20 de abril en el MGM de Las Vegas, Nevada y todo lo relacionado con la fiesta será transmitido en vivo por Univision, UNIMÁS y Galavisión, a partir de las 7P/6C, con el especial Noche de Estrellas.
Se trata de una de las mayores celebraciones culturales de la música latina contemporánea, que este año tendrá como lema ‘Somos un Movimiento’ en la que el público elige a los ganadores de sus categorías y puede ver la actuación de los artistas más importantes del momento sobre el escenario.
Cuándo se anunciará la lista de artistas nominados a los Latin American Music Awards 2023
Además de darse a conocer el lugar de la fiesta, se informó que será el próximo lunes 13 de marzo cuando se anuncie a los artistas nominados a las diferentes categorías.
Todo se transmitirá en un evento por UNIMÁS nombrado Latin AMAs: Nominaciones, el cual será conducido por Migbelis Castellanos, José Figueroa, Arana Lemus y Julián Gil como invitado. Este especial tendrá una duración de una hora e iniciará a las 6P/5C.
Luego de lanzarse la lista de nominados quedarán abiertas las votaciones para que el público elija a su artista favorito.
Los Latin AMAs 2023 por primera vez por Univision, UNIMÁS y Galavisión
La premiación estrenará este año casa y lo hará con una transmisión simultánea por esos tres canales, esto luego de que TelevisaUnivision anunciara la adquisición de los derechos de dick clark productions para los premios.
Previo a la fiesta del jueves 20 de abril habrá tres eventos como antecedente a la entrega de premios. El primero de ellos el martes 7 de marzo a las 7P/6C por UNIMÁS, con el especial Latin AMAs: Pase VIP conducido por Clarissa Molina, con todo lo que pasa detrás de cámaras de los conciertos de Camilo, Christian Nodal, Grupo Firme, Ozuna y Tini.
El segundo será el 13 de marzo con Latin AMAs: Nominaciones y el 4 de abril se transmitirá el especial Latin AMAs: Legacy, programa también presentado por Clarissa Molina, el cual celebrará a algunos de los iconos más grandes de la música latina y emocionará a los fans con contenido único y presentaciones musicales imperdibles.
Mántente al tanto de toda la información relacionada con esta premiación. Más adelante se dará a conocer los nombres de los conductores, así como la lista de artistas que actuarán en la fiesta.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston) was among the chorus of prominent Houston community leaders to condemn news of a possible state intevention in the district.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has called for a federal investigation into the Texas Education Agency (TEA) after Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Wednesday the state department could take over the Houston Independent School District as early as next week.
In a Wednesday statement, Lee called the TEA takeover “unnecessary, unfair and discriminatory” and said she has had a conversation with the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.
Her statement came after Turner broke the news at a Houston City Council meeting alongside council members who agreed the takeover would be an overreach of local government. According to Turner, the state is poised to replace the HISD Board of Trustees and Superintendent Millard House II with state-appointed officials that do not have a disclosed term limit.
The incoming takeover has stirred mixed reviews from the Houston community, where some see it as an overreach while others see the move as inevitable. In February, local organizations, including Community Voices for Public Education, (CVPE) rallied against a January Texas Supreme Court ruling that opened the door for TEA to take over HISD.
At the rally, Houston community members, including HISD educators, teachers, and parents, said they believe the district is moving in the right direction and need funding more than anything.
In addition to organizing, CVPE also said plans to deliver a petition to state lawmakers in the legislative session.
“This is about profits and politics and not about kids,” said Ruth Kravetz, Community Voices for Public Education founder. “I know that HISD has made some missteps, but it happens to be B-rated, triple bond rated, and even if I don’t love every member of the board, they’re elected, and you can vote them out.”
Kravetz also said she sees the TEA takeover as a political move because state officials are basing the move on an older reputation that doesn’t reflect the current state of operations.
“If the governor really cared about our kids, he would fund our schools more and support them,” Kravetz added.
On the other hand, other local groups like Good Reason Houston, an organization that focuses on improving education for students, according to their website, said they don’t have a position on the takeover but will work with whoever leads the board.
“Our organization exists to support Houston area public school districts, including the current administration of HISD – and whomever that may ultimately be – especially given that there are 70,000 students attending schools in HISD that are not improving fast enough to prepare them to thrive in the Houston of tomorrow.”
Houston education advocate Gerry Monroe, a staunch critic of House’s leadership of HISD, called the takeover “karma” for a school district he believes has failed Houston students for years—though he’s not bullish on TEA’s ability to improve district outcomes.
El sábado nos regaló a todos una noche de televisión profundamente extraña. El pobre Chris Pine y su precioso traje rosa fueron acribillados en los Kids’ Choice Awards. Travis Kelce fue el presentador de Saturday Night Live, y de alguna manera lo hizo el doble de bien que el presentador de la semana pasada, Woody Harrelson. Mientras tanto, Netflix tenía a sus abonados atrapados en una sala de espera virtual (¡!) a la espera de ver su primer especial de comedia en directo, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage.
La experiencia de intentar ver Selective Outrage fue extraña en sí misma. Netflix trató el especial de Rock como si fuera una Super Bowl de pseudocomedia, completando el evento con un preshow y un aftershow. El preámbulo, presentado por Ronny Chieng, contaba con un cronómetro al estilo de Nochevieja que marcaba los minutos que faltaban para que Rock saliera al escenario. La fiesta posterior contó, inexplicablemente, con Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rompiendo el especial, diciendo que si él hubiera estado en el escenario de los Oscar del año pasado en lugar de Chris Rock, Will Smith no se habría atrevido a abofetearle.
¿Qué podemos decir de Selective Outrage? Al fin y al cabo, se trata de Chris Rock -uno de los mejores cómicos de todos los tiempos, como nos recordó una serie de vídeos homenaje de famosos recopilados por Netflix (¡¿incluido Matthew McConaughey?!)-, así que el especial fue una delicia.
Por supuesto, Rock y Netflix seguro que sabían que mucha gente se iba a quedar en casa para ve el especial: la primera y extensa parrafada del cómico sobre los Oscar de 2022, cuando Smith le abofeteó por hacer un chiste sobre su mujer, Jada. “Me apuesto lo que quieras a que Will Smith le da una bofetada a un televisor esta noche”, dijo Arsenio Hall durante el preestreno.
Aunque se podría argumentar que Meghan Markle recibió más críticas en Selective Outrage que Will y Jada juntos, lo cierto es que Rock cumplió. En su reciente gira Ego Death, Rock bromeó sobre la bofetada, pero nunca durante más de uno o dos minutos. El sábado por la noche, dedicó el final de su actuación al incidente. Al principio, incluyó a Smith en la crítica del especial a la indignación selectiva -el término de Rock para ser exigente e incoherente con quién y a qué señalas-. “Will Smith practica la indignación selectiva”, dijo Rock. “Indignación porque todo el mundo sabe qué coño ha pasado. Todo el mundo que lo sabe de verdad sabe que yo no tengo nada que ver con esa mierda. No tuve ningún enredo”.
Rock apuntó a Pinkett-Smith y a su programa de entrevistas, Red Table Talk, al principio, diciendo: “Su mujer se follaba al amigo de su hijo… Y a todos nos han engañado. Todo el mundo aquí ha sido engañado. Ninguno de nosotros ha sido entrevistado por la persona que nos engañó en televisión”.
“Ella le hizo más daño a él que él a mí”, añadió Rock. “Todo el mundo le llamaba zorra. Intenté llamar al hijo de puta. Intenté llamar a ese tipo y darle el pésame. No me lo cogió”. Por su parte, Rock tomó un poco más la sartén por el mango cuando se dirigió específicamente a Smith. “Me encantaba Will Smith”, dijo. “Toda mi vida he querido a Will Smith… Hace grandes películas. He apoyado a Will Smith toda mi vida. Y ahora veo Hacia la libertad sólo para ver cómo le dan una paliza”.
Rock cerró Selective Outrage respondiendo por qué no tomó represalias ante la bofetada. “Porque tengo padres”, dijo. “Porque me criaron. ¿Y sabes lo que me enseñaron mis padres? No te pelees delante de los blancos”.
A continuación, Rock dejó el micrófono y retomamos con Kareem, David Spade y Dana Carvey en el aftershow, todos aparentemente confusos sobre lo que estaban haciendo allí. ¡Como dije! Una noche extraña.
Officials said that the passenger, a Maryland resident, sustained fatal injuries during the flight, which made an emergency landing in Windsor Locks, Conn.
A passenger of a business jet was killed when the plane, which was traveling from Keene, N.H., to Leesburg, Va., encountered “severe turbulence” on Friday, officials said.
The aircraft, a Bombardier Challenger 300, was carrying two crew members and three passengers and was forced to land in Windsor Locks, a town about 14 miles north of Hartford, Conn., the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.
The passenger who was killed was later identified as Dana Hyde, 55, a resident of Cabin John, Md. She had been taken by ambulance to Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., where she was pronounced dead, the Connecticut State Police said Monday.
The N.T.S.B. said that investigators were interviewing the crew, operator and passengers and had removed the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorders from the plane, which had been secured at the Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks.
Sarah Sulick, a spokeswoman for the transportation agency, said that it could not release further information about the nature of the turbulence, the passenger who was killed or any related injuries, as the investigation remained ongoing.
The death follows a similar incident last week in which seven passengers of a Lufthansa flight traveling from Texas to Frankfurt were hospitalized with injuries after their plane encountered extreme turbulence. In December, 36 people were injured during turbulence on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu.
Though accidents on aircraft carrying passengers or cargo are uncommon, turbulence accounted for more than a third of such aircraft accidents from 2009 to 2018, according to a report from the N.T.S.B. Most of those accidents resulted in one or more serious injuries but no aircraft damage, the agency said in the report.
There have been 146 passengers and crew seriously injured by turbulence from 2009 to 2021, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration.
A Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday evening in Springfield, Ohio, sending 28 cars sliding diagonally across the tracks but injuring no one, according to several state and local agencies.
The crash marks the rail line’s second major derailment in just over a month and comes amid lingering questions about environmental and public health in nearby East Palestine, where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed on Feb. 3.
Officials stressed that the 212-car train that derailed this weekend was not carrying toxic materials and does not pose a threat to the community.
Both the Clark County emergency management agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency examined the site and deemed it safe.
“There is NO risk to the public,” said Norfolk Southern spokesperson Connor Spielmaker on Twitter.
“We’re looking at clean air, clean soil and clean water,” said Clark County health commissioner Charles Patterson in a Sunday press conference. “There have been multiple sweeps by multiple teams.”
The train was traveling just outside Springfield city limits en route to Birmingham, Ala., when 28 cars jumped the tracks around 4:45 pm, according to Kraig Barner, Norfolk Southern general manager for the northern region.
According Springfield Fire Chief Dave Nagel, local authorities imposed a precautionary shelter-in-place order for residents within 1,000 feet of the derailment, which impacted four or five residential homes. The order was lifted 10 hours later.
Initial assessments of the scene were slowed by downed power lines, Nagel said, which left 1,500 residents without power in the county on Saturday. State Route 41 remained closed as of Monday morning, its asphalt cracked by the incident.
Four nearly empty tankers were among the derailed cars, carrying residual levels of diesel exhaust fluid and a polyacrylamide water solution, said Springfield hazmat coordinator Matt Smith. The Ohio Emergency Management Agency described the materials as “common industrial products shipped via railroad.”
Fire Chief Nagel said crews found dried liquid on the outside of a tanker but assumed it was sludge that splashed up from the derailment itself. His team detected no leaks on the tankers.
One hopper containing non-toxic PVC pellets did spill its contents onto nearby soil but doesn’t pose a health risk. Ohio EPA Director Anne Vogel said her team would remain on site for cleanup.
“If there’s anything we’ve learned so far, it’s that transparency matters, encouraging facts not misinformation,” Vogel said, thanking local agencies for their swift response. “We will continue to be good partners in getting the facts out.”
The cause of the crash is still unknown. The National Transportation Safety Board said it would send investigators to the scene on Sunday.
Norfolk Southern is still facing scrutiny for its role in the crash near East Palestine that spilled hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into a town with 4,700 residents. Some have since reported rashes and lingering foul smells, sparking calls for increased railroad safety and rail line accountability.
The railroad’s sensors had failed to detect an overheated wheel bearing which eventually gave out altogether, the NTSB said in its preliminary report on the crash.
Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay for East Palestine and neighboring residents to relocate during the cleanup, the EPA announced Monday.
“At EPA’s request, Norfolk Southern has agreed to provide additional financial assistance to residents of the East Palestine area, including the portions of Pennsylvania within a mile of the derailment site,” the EPA said in a news release. This assistance may include temporary lodging, travel, food, clothing, and other necessities.”
A una semana escasa de los Premios Oscar 2023, hay una película que continúa acaparando premios: ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’ llega a la ceremonia del 13 de marzo con 11 nominaciones y, en la 38 edición de los Independent Spirit Awards, los premios que reconocen los logros del cine independiente con presupuestos inferiores a los 30 millones de dólares, ha conseguido arrasar ganándolo todo. Lo que demuestra que la cinta protagonizada por Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan y Jamie Lee Curtis va a por todas.
Los ganadores son elegidos con los votos de los miembros de “Film Independent”, una organización sin ánimo de lucro, así como por nominados y ganadores de ediciones anteriores, que han considerado que la cinta de los Daniels, los genios tras ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’, era merecedora de siete premios, entre los que se encuentran los de Mejor Película, Mejor Dirección y Mejor Interpretación, tanto Principal como Revelación.
Veamos el palmarés completo:
‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
‘Thank you for watching’
‘Hasta los huesos: Bones and All’
‘TÁR’
‘Ellas hablan’
‘Mon père, le Diable’
MEJOR DIRECCIÓN
Los Daniels por ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
Todd Field por ‘TÁR’
Kogonada por ‘Despidiendo a Yang’
Sarah Polley por ‘Ellas hablan’
Halina Reijn por ‘Muerte, muerte, muerte’
MEJOR DEBUT
‘Aftersun’
‘Emily the Criminal’
‘The Inspection’
‘Murina’
‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’
MEJOR INTERPRETACIÓN PROTAGONISTA
Michelle Yeoh por ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
Cate Blanchett por ‘TÁR’
Dale Dickey por ‘A Love Song’
Mia Goth por ‘Pearl’
Regina Hall por ‘Honk for Jesus, Save your Soul’
Paul Mescal por ‘Aftersun’
Aubrey Plaza por ‘Emily the Criminal’
Jeremy Pope por ‘The Inspection’
Taylor Russell por ‘Hasta los huesos: Bones and All’
Andrea Riseborough por ‘To Leslie’
MEJOR INTERPRETACIÓN DE REPARTO
Ke Huy Quan por ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
Jamie Lee Curtis por ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
Brian Tyree Henry por ‘Causeway’
Nina Hoss por ‘TÁR’
Brian d’Arcy James por ‘La catedral’
Trevante Rhodes por ‘Bruiser’
Theo Rossi por ‘Emily the Criminal’
Mark Rylance por ‘Hasta los huesos: Bones and All’
Jonathan Tucker por ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’
Gabrielle Union por ‘The Inspection’
MEJOR INTERPRETACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Stephanie Hsu por ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
Frankie Corio por ‘Aftersun’
Gracija Filipovic por ‘Murina’
Lily McInerny por ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’
Daniel Zolghadri por ‘Funny Pages’
MEJOR GUION
‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
‘Despidiendo a Yang’
‘TÁR’
‘Ellas hablan’
‘El libro de Catherine’
MEJOR PRIMER GUION
‘Emily the Criminal’
‘Muerte, muerte, muerte’
‘Fire Island’
‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’
‘Emergency’
MEJOR FOTOGRAFÍA
‘TÁR’
‘Aftersun’
‘Murina’
‘Pearl’
‘Neptune Frost’
MEJOR MONTAJE
‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’
‘Aftersun’
‘La catedral’
‘TÁR’
‘Marcel the Shell with the Shoes On’
PREMIO ROBERT ALTMAN
‘Ellas hablan’
MEJOR DOCUMENTAL
‘La belleza y el dolor’
‘Una casa hecha de astillas’
‘All that Breathes’
‘Midwive’
‘Riotsville, USA’
MEJOR PELÍCULA INTERNACIONAL
‘Joyland’
‘Corsage’
‘Saint Omer’
‘Leonor Will Never Die’
‘Return to Seoul’
MEJOR PREMIO TRUER THAN FICTION
‘I Didn’t See You There’ de Red Davenport
PREMIO JOHN CASSAVETES
‘La catedral’
‘A Love Song’
‘The African Desperate’
‘Holy Emil’
‘Something in the Dirt’
MEJOR NUEVA SERIE
‘The Bear’
‘Pachinko’
‘Separación’
‘Station Eleven’
‘The Porter’
MEJOR NUEVA SERIE DOCUMENTAL
‘The Rehearsal’
‘Children of the Underground’
‘Mind Over Murder’
‘Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?’
‘We Need to Talk Abot Cosby’
MEJOR INTERPRETACIÓN EN NUEVA SERIE
Quinta Brunson por ‘Colegio Abbott’
Aml Ammen por ‘The Porter’
Mohammed Amer por ‘Mo’
Bridget Everett por ‘Somebody Somewhere’
KaMillion por ‘Rap Sh!t’
Melanie Lynskey por ‘Yellowjackets’
Himesh Patel por ‘Station Eleven’
Sue Ann Pien por ‘As We See It’
Adam Scott por ‘Separación’
Ben Whishaw por ‘This is Going to Hurt’
MEJOR INTERPRETACIÓN DE REPARTOEN NUEVA SERIE
Ayo Edebiri por ‘The Bear’
Danielle Deadwyler por ‘Station Eleven’
Jeff Hiller por ‘Somebody Somewhere’
Gbemisola Ikumelo por ‘Ellas dan el golpe’
Janelle James por ‘Colegio Abbott’
Ebo Moss-Bachrach por ‘The Bear’
Frank Quiñones por ‘The Fool’
Sheryl Lee Ralph por ‘Colegio Abbott’
Molly Shannon por ‘I Love That for You’
Tramell Tillman por ‘Separación’
MEJOR REPARTOEN NUEVA SERIE
Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Inji Jeong, Minha Kim, Kaho Minami, Lee Minho, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Anna Sawai, Jimmi Simpson y Yuh-jung Youn por ‘Pachinko’
One more might, one more down One more, one more round First one in, last one out Giving this town lots to talk about They don’t know what they don’t know
People say I’ve got a drinkin’ problem That ain’t no reason to stop People sayin’ that I’ve hit rock bottom Just ’cause I’m living on the rocks It’s a broken-hearted thinkin’ problem So pull that bottle off the wall People say I got a drinkin’ problem But I got no problem drinkin’ at all
They keep on talkin’ Drawing conclusions They call a problem, I call a solution
Last call gets later and later I come in here so I don’t have to hate her Same old folks, same old songs Same old, same old blue neon The same old buzz, just because
People say I’ve got a drinkin’ problem That ain’t no reason to stop People sayin’ that I’ve hit rock bottom Just cause I’m living on the rocks It’s a broken hearted thinkin’ problem So pull that bottle off the wall People say I got a drinkin’ problem But I got no problem drinkin’ at all
They keep on talkin’ Drawing conclusions They call a problem, I call a solution
Sitting here in all my grand illusions They call it a problem, I call it a solution
Just a solution
It’s a broken-hearted thinkin’ problem So pull that bottle off the wall People say I got a drinkin’ problem But I got no problems drinkin’ at all They keep on talkin’ Drawing conclusions They call a problem, I call a solution
Sitting here in all my grand illusions They call it a problem, I call it a solution
A Harris County jury sentenced a Spring man to 23 years in prison late Tuesday for the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in 2016, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.
“Cases like this are why we take stalking and intimate-partner violence so seriously,” Ogg said. “This man decided to lie in wait for three hours for his ex-girlfriend to arrive at her own house. When she arrived with her new boyfriend, he attempted to force himself into the home, ultimately shooting and killing the new boyfriend.”
Austin Daniel Hoff, 29, will have to serve at least half of the prison sentence before he is eligible for parole after being convicted of murder for shooting 23-year-old Steven Senter on Sept. 5, 2016.
Austin Daniel Hoff
Hoff, who was raised in Spring, had moved to the Austin area, where he was an auto mechanic, and persuaded his girlfriend to move in with him. When she later caught Hoff cheating on her, she moved back to Spring. Hoff eventually started harassing and stalking her, and then went to her home in Spring and parked outside for three hours as he waited for her to come home.
She eventually arrived with her new boyfriend, Steven Senter. As the couple tried to go inside, Hoff tried to force his way through the front door. Senter then pushed Hoff away in an effort to prevent him from entering. During a continued struggle, Hoff shot Senter in the chest. Hoff then took off the shirt he was wearing, got into his car and headed back toward the Austin area. Hoff’s father later called him and persuaded him to turn around and come back. Upon his return, deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office found his shirt and the gun in his car, both covered in Senter’s blood.
On Tuesday, Hoff was convicted and sentenced after seven days of testimony. Jurors sentenced him to 23 years in prison, apparently as tribute to the age Senter was when he was killed, according to Assistant District Attorney Andrew Figliuzzi, who tried the case with ADA Andrew Sanchez.
“This case was about a sense of entitlement,” Figliuzzi said. “This defendant felt entitled to take back his ex-girlfriend and entitled to kill her new boyfriend. He felt he was entitled to get away with murder.”
In an effort to keep our neighborhoods safe, Crime Stoppers of Houston and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are seeking the public’s help locating the following individuals that have active Felony and/or Misdemeanor Warrants.
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The following individuals all have active warrants as of March 3, 2023 at 8:30 am.
Alex Murdaugh was hit with a punishment of two life sentences on Friday, over the double murder of his wife and son in 2021. He’s seen here being led into the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff’s deputies for sentencing in Walterboro, S.C.
Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool
Judge Clifton Newman sentenced disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and son Friday, less than 24 hours after a jury found Murdaugh guilty in the 2021 slayings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
Newman told Murdaugh that each of the punishments apply to “the rest of your natural life,” adding that the sentences are consecutive.
The judge announced the punishment after Murdaugh briefly addressed the court.
“Good morning, your honor. I am innocent,” Murdaugh said. “I would never hurt my wife Maggie, and I would never hurt my son, Paw-Paw. Thank you.”
Murdaugh faced a sentence of 30 years to life in prison for each murder conviction. Prosecutors had said they would seek a punishment of life in prison without parole for Murdaugh.
The court session began shortly after 9:30 a.m. ET. Newman had said he would render his sentence after any victim impact statements, but prosecutor Creighton Waters began his remarks by saying the state did not have anyone who wanted to deliver a victim statement.
“The depravity, the callousness, the selfishness of these crimes are stunning,” Waters said, adding that Murdaugh continued to lie and showed no remorse.
Pointing at Murdaugh in the courtroom, Waters added, “A man like this man should never be allowed to be among free, law-abiding citizens again.”
He then asked for the maximum punishment, of two consecutive life sentences.
The judge said he didn’t question prosecutors’ decision not to seek the death penalty in the case — but he noted that over the decades in which Murdaugh’s family controlled the circuit solicitor’s office, “many have received the death penalty — probably for lesser conduct.”
Newman urged Murdaugh to confess to his crimes in open court, saying it was an opportunity for closure for Murdaugh and his family.
“I respect this court, but I’m innocent,” Murdaugh replied.
“It might not have been you,” Newman told Murdaugh of the person who committed the terrible acts. Perhaps, he added, Murdaugh’s noted drug addiction caused him to become another person.
The jury reached its verdict very quickly
After a trial that spanned 28 days, it took a Colleton County jury only a few hours to agree unanimously that Murdaugh is guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of using a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
A jury finds disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh guilty in the deaths of his wife and son
Jurors found Murdaugh, 54, guilty of using a shotgun to kill his son Paul, 22, and using a rifle to kill his wife, Maggie, 52, on the night of June 7, 2021, at the family’s Moselle hunting estate, in a rural area about 60 miles inland from Charleston, S.C.
The sentencing closes a six-week-long trial that charted Murdaugh’s fall from grace. Murdaugh, who was born into power and privilege as the scion of a prominent family of lawyers and prosecutors, has been disbarred. He also faces dozens of other criminal charges over financial crimes — some of which he admitted to during his murder trial.
His defense team — and Murdaugh himself, when he took the stand in his own defense — insisted he was innocent, depicting him as a caring father and husband who succumbed to a severe opiate addiction that led him to drain his bank accounts, rack up debt and steal money from his law firm.
Prosecutors said Murdaugh killed his wife and son to serve his own ends, after siphoning millions of dollars away from his colleagues and clients. He was facing a financial reckoning, they said, that also included his liability in a court case over a fatal 2019 boating accident in which Paul, then 19, was said to be driving.
The case turned on circumstantial evidence, and lies
Murdaugh admitted to lying to investigators about his alibi — blaming his shifting version of events on paranoia stemming from his addiction — but he maintained that he did not kill his wife and son.
During the trial, jurors heard testimony from victims of Murdaugh’s financial schemes and colleagues at his former law firm. They also learned details about what he described as an attempt to stage his own death, the 2019 boating accident, and a housekeeper who died at Moselle in 2018.
Prosecutors never produced the two murder weapons used to kill Maggie and Paul, and there were no eyewitnesses. But the prosecution proved that from his earliest interactions with first responders on the night of the murders, Murdaugh lied to investigators.
Murdaugh said repeatedly that he didn’t go with his wife and son to the dog kennels where they were shot and killed, saying that he stayed in the house, and took a nap before leaving to see his ailing mother.
But after witnesses identified Murdaugh’s voice in a cellphone video taken by Paul at the kennel around 8:45 p.m. – minutes before investigators said the shooting started — Murdaugh’s alibi fell apart. He then made the extraordinary decision to testify on his own behalf, saying that while he had lied to the police, he didn’t shoot his wife and son.
“I lied about being down there. And I’m so sorry that I did,” he said.
“This defendant has fooled everyone — everyone who thought they were close to him,” Waters told the jury in his closing argument. “He fooled Maggie and Paul, too, and they paid for it with their lives. Don’t let him fool you, too.”
La octava edición de los Latin American Music Awards 2023 se realizará el 20 de abril en el MGM de Las Vegas, Nevada y todo lo relacionado con la fiesta será transmitido en vivo por Univision, UNIMÁS y Galavisión, a partir de las 7P/6C, con el especial Noche de Estrellas.
El sábado nos regaló a todos una noche de televisión profundamente extraña. El pobre Chris Pine y su precioso traje rosa fueron acribillados en los Kids’ Choice Awards. Travis Kelce fue el presentador de Saturday Night Live, y de alguna manera lo hizo el doble de bien que el presentador de la semana pasada, Woody Harrelson. Mientras tanto, Netflix tenía a sus abonados atrapados en una sala de espera virtual (¡!) a la espera de ver su primer especial de comedia en directo, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage.
Officials said that the passenger, a Maryland resident, sustained fatal injuries during the flight, which made an emergency landing in Windsor Locks, Conn.
A Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday evening in Springfield, Ohio, sending 28 cars sliding diagonally across the tracks but injuring no one, according to several state and local agencies.
A una semana escasa de los Premios Oscar 2023, hay una película que continúa acaparando premios: ‘Todo a la vez en todas partes’ llega a la ceremonia del 13 de marzo con 11 nominaciones y, en la 38 edición de los Independent Spirit Awards, los premios que reconocen los logros del cine independiente con presupuestos inferiores a los 30 millones de dólares, ha conseguido arrasar ganándolo todo. Lo que demuestra que la cinta protagonizada por Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan y Jamie Lee Curtis va a por todas.
Alex Murdaugh was hit with a punishment of two life sentences on Friday, over the double murder of his wife and son in 2021. He’s seen here being led into the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff’s deputies for sentencing in Walterboro, S.C.