Ronnie Crosby — Direct/Cross

COURT CLERK: Please have a seat in the witness stand. State your name again for the record. Spell your last name.

RONNIE CROSBY: Ronnie Crosby, Crosby, C-r-o-s-b-y.

RONNIE CROSBY: I'm okay.

RONNIE CROSBY: I am an attorney practicing law with the Parker Law Group.

RONNIE CROSBY: I am.

RONNIE CROSBY: I do.

RONNIE CROSBY: He is sitting between Mr. Griffin and Mr. Harpootlian at the defense table.

RONNIE CROSBY: I was.

RONNIE CROSBY: I'm not going to swear that I don't miss somebody because it was a fluid event. My recollection is it would have been late morning, midday that we gathered at Alex's brother John Marvin's place, which is not very far from Almeda that y'all have been talking about, and I know I had been by to see Mr. Randolph that morning. There was going to be a meeting with law enforcement. They had given Alex a couple of days before they were meeting with him, and so we gathered there. I was present, Mark Ball was present, Lee Cope was present, John Marvin was present. At some point I believe -- and I don't remember exactly when Buster arrived. Jim Griffin arrived at some point, and I want to say Cory Fleming was there, and there could have been others.

RONNIE CROSBY: He did. We were there as friends. We had been with him every -- starting the night of the murders every day and we were there for support. And he went over the events of that afternoon, or that evening, starting from the time he got home from work until the discovery of Paul and Maggie.

RONNIE CROSBY: We were in John's house there, I guess -- I don't know if he calls it a house or a hunting lodge but we were inside largely. I mean, there was some in and out of the house as well, but the majority, we were all sitting in a room together, and I was doing more listening than talking.

RONNIE CROSBY: Well, the statements that I heard obviously were being for me to hear them. I was not overhearing a conversation that was private between Mr. Griffin and Mr. Murdaugh. They did have some private conversations that the rest of us were not privy to, but -- so, there's a mixture of that.

RONNIE CROSBY: Correct, and this was before, I believe, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents arrived at this location.

RONNIE CROSBY: That's correct. I mean, obviously we all were in shock but also wanted to try to find out what all had went on because we -- you know, as we got past that night of June 7th and the morning of June 8th, we're all, you know, trying to help find out what had happened and, you know, who may have been a potential suspect.

RONNIE CROSBY: That's correct. I mean, I -- we had multiple conversations, as you might expect, all of us in a group, and there may have been pieces and parts, but what you and I have discussed up until now have been outside of what was discussed on June 10th at John Marvin's house.

RONNIE CROSBY: Yeah. I told you I might miss one, but was Danny was there? I don't think Danny was there at first, but he ultimately arrived.

RONNIE CROSBY: That's correct. The purpose was to -- that SLED scheduled a time, and I don't know who scheduled it with them. And you're correct, Randy was there. And it was essentially going over the timeline of the evening of the 7th because knowing that Alex was going to be interviewed and, I think, Buster was and maybe Randy and John Marvin, over the course of that afternoon.

RONNIE CROSBY: I was not scheduled to be interviewed. And, Jim, now that you speak of it, I do think that while Mr. Randolph did not come into the meeting, he and whoever brought him over did come by -- there were two that I had forgotten -- and then went back to Almeda.

RONNIE CROSBY: He died as we were leaving or right after we left this meeting with law enforcement. We were on our way back to -- and Randy got a call.

RONNIE CROSBY: I did not.

RONNIE CROSBY: We were there as friends to provide support and listen.

RONNIE CROSBY: Mark was, and I know Mark had some meetings with law enforcement about some concerns that he had, you know, about potential suspects and safety of --

RONNIE CROSBY: I don't remember that specifically. But knowing that you were already involved, I mean, any of us would have thought it was a good idea.

RONNIE CROSBY: I don't know what he was thinking, but he never approached me as his lawyer or throughout this -- I never had the perception that I was representing him.

RONNIE CROSBY: Mr. Griffin, we're all lawyers, other than John and Buster, that were there. I don't think anybody needed to say that. It never crossed my mind that when we were sitting in a room and all of us were talking that we were somehow representing Alex.

RONNIE CROSBY: Nor would I ever do that because I don't practice in the area that you do.

RONNIE CROSBY: He did with regard to the boating accident. He was Alex's personal counsel in that.

RONNIE CROSBY: Yes, I was aware of that.

RONNIE CROSBY: I don't know. I saw -- I mean, I know when Alex got in the car we felt like one of us ought to sit in there with him, you know, for support, because --

RONNIE CROSBY: That there were --

RONNIE CROSBY: I can tell you that John and Buster were there for points of time. Can I tell you who was sitting and whether John had walked out when I heard any specific thing? I can't tell you that. I couldn't catalog because, as I said, it's a little bit fluid, people coming and going, you know, law enforcement arriving outside and people walking out to greet them. It wasn't like the SLED agents just showed up and it was, you know, some rigid thing where you walked out, and there was small talk going on with the officers as well.