The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions and life sentence on May 13 in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son.
The justices unanimously ruled the conduct by the court clerk “egregiously attacked Murdaugh’s credibility.”
Murdaugh will remain in prison. He pleaded guilty to 22 counts of federal financial crimes for stealing about $12 million from his clients and is serving 40 years in prison.
The justices ordered a new trial for Murdaugh, who began serving two consecutive life terms in state prison on March 3, 2023.
Supreme Court justices found the trial was conducted in vain because Colleton County Court Clerk Rebecca “Becky” Hill “placed her fingers on the scales of justice, thereby denying Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury,” at the time Murdaugh testified in the six-week trial in 2023 in the case involving the shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul….
South Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Convictions
