Alex Murdaugh retrial set
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Prosecutors and lawyers for Alex Murdaugh are expected to return to court to dispute evidence for his retrial on murder charges next year
Previously convicted killer Alex Murdaugh is facing pushback from the State of South Carolina over DNA retesting and laptop requests. A murder case that rocked the nation, involving a once-prominent Lowcountry lawyer, has made its first steps back into court for a retrial.
Alex Murdaugh's defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife's fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2021, a judge said Friday, part of an increasingly bitter battle over what evidence can be used in his murder retrial next year.
A judge could decide what new evidence might be admitted at Alex Murdaugh’s retrial for the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
LEXINGTON, S.C. — The judge in Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial decided Friday to move the case out of the rural South Carolina county where it consumed life for six weeks in 2023. But left undecided is a defense request to throw out the whole case because ...