Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me

Farhad Manjoo, who failed his way upwards from being the worst writer at Slate into being a bad writer at the NY Times, here exposes his implicit contempt for the ordinary peers of the jury. How, he wonders, could these poor dolts have understood all this complicated DATA in just 3 hours?

The answer is simple: they had sat through a 6-week trial and had plenty of time to digest all of this information. And the strongest piece of evidence, Murdaugh's voice on a Snapchat, at the murder scene just before the murders, after he had lied to investigators about not being there, doesn't require much technical sophistication.

The verdict came in around 7pm. Anyone else find it ironic that the author submitted, and the NY Times published, a 1750-word opinion piece the very next morning, complaining that the jury was too rash in reaching a verdict?