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2023.02.11 05:14 Coy9ine The story behind how cameras got in the Murdaugh trial courtroom [Op-Ed - The State]
![]() | The story behind how cameras got in the Murdaugh trial courtroomBY DAVID LAUDERDALE - THE STATE - FEBRUARY 10, 2023 - Opinion ColumnAlex Murdaugh speaks with his attorney during his double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Sam Wolfe/The State, Pool) When the Lowcountry’s trial of the century began, one national headline blared: “Lights, camera, trial: All eyes on Alex Murdaugh as a small South Carolina city prepares for ‘circus.’ ” And even as it has morphed into the War and Peace of murder trials with no end in sight after three weeks, it still keeps the eyes of the nation fixated on the double-murder spectacle in Walterboro. But without Court TV’s lights and cameras, the public might not have heard testimony that defendant Alex Murdaugh’s true gift is “the art of bullshit” or that he was considered a threat to tamper with a jury in a civil case against him. Or that witness after witness would confirm he lied in his alibi by saying they were 100 percent certain his voice in a video places him at the dog kennels at the family spread near Hampton minutes before his son and wife were shot to death on June 7, 2021. We certainly could not have felt the turmoil surging within a caregiver who testified Alex Murdaugh told her he was at his mother’s house on the night of the murders for 40 minutes when in truth he was there 20 minutes. Or that he dangled before her payment for her planned wedding, and let her know he was in good with her boss at her day job. But we can’t take this for granted. It was hard for the public to gain ready access to public testimony in the public courtrooms of South Carolina. The state that seems to be run by lawyers and for lawyers held out until it was one of only three states in the union that still banned cameras and recorders in courtrooms. That changed in 1993, after a long fight. The state Supreme Court enacted new rules allowing cameras in courts under strict guidelines if the presiding judge approved. Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman allowed it in this case, just as he earlier denied a requested gag order leading up to the trial, saying, “The public is entitled to know how justice is being administered.” The long slog to that entitlement centered on a former Associated Press bureau chief named John Shurr and a former Chief Justice David W. Harwell. And in one retelling of the saga, it also involved a murder in a fried chicken restaurant. SC SUPREME COURTJohn Shurr was a western band Cherokee born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.He left an imprint on South Carolina as AP bureau chief in Columbia from 1984 to 2007. What he saw while serving on river patrol boats in Vietnam in 1967 and 1969 pulled him into journalism. The rules of engagement were dictated by politicians thousands of miles away, and their decisions were killing his friends. “He said he wanted to expose stupidity,” said Jay Bender, his longtime friend and ally in fighting for the public’s right to know in South Carolina. Bender, who is in Walterboro as the volunteer liaison between the court and the media in the Murdaugh trial, is a retired University of South Carolina professor and media lawyer who represents the S.C. Press Association and its newspapers. Shurr, Pete Poore, then of S.C. ETV, and the state broadcasters association took the first swings at getting cameras in the courts in the late 1980s. Bender said their efforts fell on deaf ears of one or two chief justices. Bender said he introduced Shurr to Alex Sanders, then chief judge of the S.C. Court of Appeals, who was strong on First Amendment rights and knew all the state Supreme Court justices. Sanders introduced Shurr to David Harwell of Florence, who became chief justice in 1992, and they had lunch a couple of times. Harwell was willing to listen. Soon they tested cameras in a mock trial, then in a real trial with a hand-picked case and a hand-picked judge. Dick Harpootlian, Murdaugh’s lead attorney, was the prosecutor in that case as 5th Circuit Solicitor. “It was a murder trial,” Shurr recalled in an oral-history video done by the S.C. Press Association. “Harpootlian knew a slam-dunk case when he saw one, so he picked a murder case against a fellow who killed another patron in a fried chicken restaurant with about a dozen witnesses.” The trial run went swimmingly for everybody but the defendant, and cameras were soon the norm in South Carolina courtrooms. COURT TVCameras were booted from the courtroom in their first trial of the century in the suffocating heat of July 1995 in Union County.Susan Smith was being held accountable for driving her two young sons into a lake and drowning them. Bender recalls going into a pre-trial hearing to see CNN setting up boom microphones that “looked like a possum on a stick.” That killed the hard-fought notion that cameras could be unobtrusive in court. The defense objected and the judge agreed. Bender says Court TV has worked flawlessly in Walterboro, as have still photographers from The State in Columbia and the Post and Courier in Charleston. Judge Newman, his calm demeanor defying his personal tragedy in the unexpected death last month of his 40-year-old son, has seen public access to a big trial work before. He presided in the 2016 state case against North Charleston police officer Michael Slager who shot and killed a Black man running from him. When former Chief Justice Harwell died in 2015, he was credited with working to get mediation into South Carolina as a means of dispute resolution, for approving the use of genetic testing in criminal cases and recognizing battered women’s syndrome as a defense in court. But his obituary said, “He was most proud of his work to allow cameras in South Carolina courtrooms because he believed it to be a deterrent to crime.” John Shurr died the same year. He spent his last years in Beaufort. “I know of no journalist who has done more in the cause of open government in South Carolina than John,” Bill Rogers, then executive director of the S.C. Press Association, said at the time. “It was John Shurr’s almost single-handed effort that brought about cameras in South Carolina courts.” Yes, lights, camera, trial. |
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