News/Commentary

Alex Murdaugh cites ‘newly discovered evidence’ to demand new trial ahead of ‘bombshell’ press event

September 4, 2023 | | Print Article

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is demanding a second murder trial, citing “newly discovered evidence” that he says the jury never got to hear.

After deliberating for less than three hours, a jury found in March that Murdaugh, 57, was guilty of fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7th, 2021.

As BizPac Review reported, one of the jurors attributed the quick verdict to a “dog kennel video” that he described as a “crucial piece of evidence.” The bodies of Murdaugh’s wife and son were discovered near the dog kennels on the family’s Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina.

Prosecutors at his trial played a video that Paul had recorded on his phone five minutes before his death that destroyed Murdaugh’s alibi.

After claiming he hadn’t been home on the night of the murders, the video showed Murdaugh in the estate’s dog kennels handling his friend Rogan Gibson’s dog who he was taking care of for the night.

Though the former attorney repeatedly proclaimed his innocence, Murdaugh was sentenced to two life sentences.

ADVERTISEMENT

Six months later, his attorneys, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, who represented him at his trial, have scheduled a “bombshell” press conference for Tuesday afternoon at the South Carolina State House grounds, according to DailyMail.com.

Just days ago, Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster, told Fox Nation that he believed prosecutors offered a “crappy motive” for the killings and stated he did not believe the trial “was fair.”

“I was there for six weeks studying it,” he said, “and I think it was a tilted table from the beginning. And I think, unfortunately, a lot of the jurors felt that way prior to when they had to deliberate.”

“It was predetermined in their minds prior to when they ever heard any shred of evidence that was given in that room,” he added.


Buster agreed that his father has psychopathic characteristics but claimed “there are two sides to the story” and the real killer is still out there.

ADVERTISEMENT

“He doesn’t exonerate him,” said Fox News’s Judge Jeanine Pirro. “He doesn’t say, ‘My father didn’t do this.’ He doesn’t say, ‘My father had nothing to do with it.’ He says, ‘There are two sides.'”

Murdaugh’s attorneys did not reveal what “newly discovered evidence” they would be presenting at the press conference.

Meanwhile, the convicted killer has been ” enjoying his ‘celebrity’ status” and allegedly rubbing “prison officials the wrong way with his behavior and flouting of inmate rules,” according to DailyMail.com.

“Officials in the McCormick Correctional Institution said Murdaugh had a disciplinary hearing last week after he violated the prison’s policies on giving news interviews and using another inmate’s PIN number to make a call behind bars,” the outlet reports.

ADVERTISEMENT

As a result, Murdaugh “lost his telephone and canteen privileges for 30 days.”

Melissa Fine
Latest posts by Melissa Fine (see all)

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

Latest Articles