Alex Murdaugh denied bond second time after court review of psychiatric evaluation
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A South Carolina judge denied bond for Alex Murdaugh a second time Tuesday, ruling the disgraced attorney's requested psychiatric evaluation confirms he is a danger to himself and the community.
Judge Clifton Newman, who is considered an at-large judge in the South Carolina Circuit Court, already denied bond for Murdaugh once before at the conclusion of an Oct. 19 hearing in Richland County, also ordering a psychiatric evaluation be submitted to the court for review. Alex Murdaugh awaits the beginning of his bond hearing in the Richland Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A judge in South Carolina denied bond for attorney Alex Murdaugh on the second set of charges he has faced since finding his wife and son dead last June. (AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine, Pool) Alex Murdaugh is led to a holding cell while the court is in recess in the Richland Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Murdaugh is in court on two felony charges of obtaining property by false pretenses. He spent five days in jail after his arrest Thursday at a drug rehab center near Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine, Pool) Alex Murdaugh awaits the beginning of his bond hearing in the Richland Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A judge in South Carolina denied bond for attorney Alex Murdaugh on the second set of charges he has faced since finding his wife and son dead last June. (AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine, Pool)
Three weeks ago, Newman heard presentations from state prosecutor Creighton Waters, Murdaugh’s attorneys, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, and Eric Bland and Ronnie Richter, representing the sons of Murdaugh’s longtime nanny and housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who were also present.