COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – Alex Murdaugh is now serving as the previous courtroom clerk, whom the South Carolina Supreme Court stated had a hand in his 2023 homicide conviction. Murdaugh filed a federal lawsuit against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill on Sunday. It claims Hill’s interactions with the jury violated Murdaugh’s constitutional…
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions and life sentences of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the taking pictures deaths of his wife and youthful son. In a unanimous ruling, the justices mentioned the conduct by the courtroom clerk “egregiously attacked Murdaugh’s credibility” by suggesting to jurors…
South Carolina’s high courtroom on Wednesday undid the homicide convictions towards Alex Murdaugh, the lawyer a jury had discovered responsible of murdering his spouse and considered one of his sons in a trial that captivated the nation. In a unanimous opinion, the State Supreme Court stated that “shocking jury interference” by a courtroom clerk who…
