Alex Murdaugh was back in court to address key pre-trial issues ahead of his upcoming murder retrial. The judge agreed to move the retrial out of Colleton County, SC, but did not name a new location. LiveNOW’s Anna Marsick discussed the latest in the Murdaugh retrial with criminal defense attorney John Day.
South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Debra McCaslin ruled that the retrial could take place outside of Colleton County, stating that she does not believe Murdaugh "can get a fair and impartial trial” at the current location.
Alex Murdaugh sued former Colleton County clerk Becky Hill, alleging she violated his right to a fair trial over the deaths of his wife and younger son.
South Carolina’s high court unanimously overturned Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction paving the way for a new trial, but the second one might not look much different from the first. Prosecutors plan to retry the disgraced lawyer, saying no one is above the law, after the state supreme court found that former Colleton County clerk Becky Hill improperly influenced jurors and deprived Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a fair trial. Full story: https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/alex-murdaughs-new-trial-how-does-it-work/
In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled that Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill tampered with the jury during Murdaugh's 2023 trial, which prejudiced the jurors toward a guilty verdict before they began deliberating,
The decision, in which judges cited jury interference by a court clerk, upends one of America’s highest-profile homicide cases.