Alex Murdaugh Retrial: Former Prosecutor on the Ruling, the Evidence, and the Fight
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, restricted the evidence that dominated his first trial, and rewrote the legal standard for jury tampering claims in the state. Eric Faddis — a former prosecutor who now practices defense — provides the full analysis.
The ruling: Toal placed the burden on Murdaugh, violated evidence rules by questioning jurors about their mental processes, and relied on testimony that was inadmissible. The court adopted the Cheek framework, making it the governing standard in South Carolina, and found the State could not prove the verdict was unaffected by Hill’s comments.
The evidence: twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony flagged as excessive. The motive timeline survives. The inflammatory details do not. The defense also has unresolved challenges to forensic evidence the court declined to address.
The retrial: Murdaugh’s prior testimony locked in as a prosecution asset. Hill’s conviction as a potential defense narrative. A venue fight with no obvious answer. And Faddis’ answer to the question every trial lawyer in the country is asking — which side would you rather be on?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink. |
| 0:08.5 | A juror swore under oath that the Colleton County Clerk of Court made her feel like |
| 0:15.7 | Alec Murdoch was guilty before deliberations even started. She had doubts. She voted to convict anyway. Former |
| 0:22.8 | Chief Justice Gene Toll heard all of it and ruled that's not quite enough. She punted it down to |
| 0:29.4 | the South Carolina Supreme Court. And well, that game just ended. And the score is five to nothing. |
| 0:36.5 | And Alec Murdole won. |
| 0:38.7 | Not a close call at all, but on who carries the burden of proof. |
| 0:44.5 | It's going to happen. |
| 0:46.1 | Alec Murdo is 99.9% likely to get a new trial. |
| 0:52.4 | We're here to talk about that in three different segments this morning. |
| 0:57.2 | We're going to dive into how Alec Murdoch is getting a new trial, |
| 1:02.0 | the logistics that put us here, what may still stand from the first trial, |
| 1:07.4 | because it's not always just a carbon copy repeat, |
| 1:10.6 | and this is not going to be |
| 1:11.9 | the same thing here either and what new elements may come in and how the retrial is going to be |
| 1:19.3 | different. We're going to get into all of that this morning here to help us break all that down. |
| 1:24.2 | Eric Fatt as defense attorney and former prosecutor and of course my cohost, Robin Drake, retired FBI special agency for the counterintelligence behavioral |
| 1:31.4 | analysis program. Welcome, gentlemen, as always this morning. I've been looking forward to |
| 1:37.1 | having this conversation with you, Eric, because there's so many legal, legal things involved here. |
| 1:43.7 | Supreme Court said Gene Toll, the judge who, for those of you playing along at home, there was another hearing after the murder. |
| 1:51.5 | It was an appellate hearing. |
| 1:53.0 | And Toll could have made the choice of, well, let's have another trial. |
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