South Carolina AG responds to Murdaugh enchantment over alleged jury tampering

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The South Carolina Lawyer Basic's Workplace has formally submitted its response to Alex Murdaugh’s enchantment difficult his convictions for the murders of his spouse and son.

In a 182-page temporary filed earlier than the Aug. 8 deadline, Lawyer Basic Alan Wilson’s workplace dismantles Murdaugh’s December enchantment, which claims that Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill swayed jurors to spice up gross sales of her forthcoming e book.

The submitting is the State’s first full rebuttal to Murdaugh’s bid for a brand new trial.

Within the submitting, obtained by Greenville News, prosecutors argued that the jury discovered Murdaugh responsible primarily based on the "overwhelming" proof, not due to Hill’s temporary and "silly" feedback about his testimony.

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Alex Murdaugh is led into Colleton County courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina on Tuesday, January 31, 2023. (Mark Sims for Fox Information Digital )

Prosecutors additionally mentioned Murdaugh forfeited the correct to problem the monetary crimes proof by not interesting the trial courtroom’s resolution to confess it.

Wilson’s crew had initially requested extra time to answer, citing the complexity and measurement of the case, together with a 6,000-page trial transcript and vital proof that wanted overview.

Dick Harpootlian, a Columbia lawyer and former state senator who led Murdaugh’s protection, beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital that Hill’s conduct compromised the trial. Based on Harpootlian, Hill's actions doubtlessly value Murdaugh a good verdict.

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From left to proper, Buster, Maggie, Paul and Alex Murdaugh in an undated photograph. (Fb)

"If she had left the jury alone, clearly the worst we'd have performed was a mistrial," Harpootlian mentioned, including that two jurors would have voted in a different way if not for Hill’s affect.

The protection additionally disputed that the jury mustn't have heard proof associated to Murdaugh’s monetary misconduct.

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Alex Murdaugh cries whereas taking the stand at double homicide trial. (POOL)

The disgraced lawyer was convicted in March 2023 of the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, who had been fatally shot on June 7, 2021, on the household’s looking property in Colleton County. He was additionally discovered responsible of two weapons prices associated to the killings.

Murdaugh’s crew has 30 days to reply the lawyer common’s temporary. As soon as either side end, the state Supreme Court docket will set oral arguments, possible later this fall, with a call anticipated subsequent spring.

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Murdaugh, 56, who continues to keep up his innocence, is serving two consecutive life phrases in state jail.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Wilson's workplace, however didn't obtain a response.

Fox Information Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Peter D'Abrsosca contributed to this report.

Stepheny Value is a author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise. She covers matters together with lacking individuals, homicides, nationwide crime circumstances, unlawful immigration, and extra. Story ideas and concepts could be despatched to stepheny.value@fox.com

Stepheny Value is a Author at Fox News with a deal with West Coast and Midwest information, lacking individuals, nationwide and worldwide crime tales, murder circumstances, and border safety.