In a big win for Alex Murdaugh, South Carolina’s Supreme Court overturned his convictions for the murders of his wife and son, and granted him a retrial. The ruling found that Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill’s conduct denied “Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.” The opinion also argued that during the original double murder trial, the state went “far too long and far too deep into aspects of Murdaugh’s financial crimes,” and that during the retrial, the focus on those crimes has to be much shorter and limited. In 2023, months after he was found guilty of killing Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, the disgraced attorney pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes over stealing millions from his most vulnerable clients when he practiced law as a personal injury attorney. He is currently serving state and federal sentences concurrently, which are 27 years and 40 years, respectively. In response to the news of a retrial, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said that the state is going “back to square one on this case,” and didn’t rule out the death penalty. Mandy Matney is a South Carolina-based journalist whose reporting broke multiple stories central to the Murdaugh saga. Matney, who served as executive producer of the series “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” joins “Forbes True Crime” to discuss this latest development.
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