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Seven months after his double murder conviction, Alex Murdaugh has a chance to present evidence for a new trial. The South Carolina Court of Appeals ordered a lower court Tuesday to hear allegations of jury tampering by the Colleton County clerk of court.
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Hordes of books are being released and a new Netflix documentary just dropped featuring the clerk of court in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial. But six months later, the case may not be over as that clerk, Becky Hill, is now accused of jury tampering. It’s the latest twist in a dizzying saga.
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Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty in federal court to stealing $9 million from former personal injury clients, colleagues and friends. Federal authorities now estimate the amount is more, $10.5 million and the crime spree longer.
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Alex Murdaugh’s double murder case has been full of twists and turns. But one of the biggest surprises came as his lawyers say he deserves a new trial for killing his wife and son and his life sentence tossed out because elected Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill tampered with the jury.
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Attorneys for convicted murder Alex Murdaugh want to call jurors and others back into the courtroom in an effort to get a new trial. They want to find out if the trial court clerk told jurors not to trust him when he testified in his own defense.
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A longtime friend of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to helping the disgraced attorney steal millions of dollars of insurance settlements from the sons of Murdaugh’s dead housekeeper.
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A longtime friend of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for scheming to steal millions of dollars in insurance settlements from the sons of his dead housekeeper.
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A South Carolina grand jury Tuesday charged convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh with two counts of tax evasion after prosecutors reviewed his final years of tax returns before he headed behind bars.
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South Carolina prison officials have decided to keep former attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh in a special protective unit as he begins serving his life sentence for killing his wife and son. The state Department of Corrections said in a news release Friday that mental health and prison experts determined that Murdaugh should be kept in protective custody after they reviewed his case, including the enormous amount of publicity it garnered and psychiatric and other tests. Prison officials said they weren't disclosing the unit's location due to security concerns.
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The judge who presided over Alex Murdaugh's murder trial in South Carolina told his law school he wasn't surprised the jury came back with a guilty verdict in three hours. Judge Clifton Newman returned to Cleveland State University on Tuesday to discuss his career and the topic on everyone's minds: the six-week trial that ended in Murdaugh's murder convictions for killing his wife and son. Newman says jurors who listen closely over a long trial don't want to go back over hundreds of exhibits. That's especially true if they feel they have a good handle on the case. Cleveland State's law school announced it will induct the 71-year-old Newman into its hall of fame in November.