Murdaugh lawyer ‘cautiously optimistic’ court clerk’s misconduct could pave way for new trial
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Alex Murdaugh's new trial Supreme Court appeal scheduled for February as disgraced former South Carolina attorney's defense team expresses optimism about overturning his life sentence.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a U.S. Writer at Fox News Digital.
"There’s two basic appeals that have been consolidated," Harpootlian said in an interview with Fox News Digital. "One is the underlying trial – the legal technical issues that you see in every appeal. And there’s an additional appeal that’s very unusual: did the clerk of court say things or do things in an effort to have the jury vote guilty?" You can follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Murdaugh was convicted in March 2023 of murdering his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, at the family’s rural hunting estate in South Carolina’s idyllic low country in June 2021. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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