Alex Murdaugh's Defense Team Seeks New Trial Amid Jury Tampering Reports

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Alex Murdaugh has sued for a new trial in the case against him for the murder of his wife and son in June of 2021, amid reports of jury tampering by the clerk of court in Colleton County Rebecca Hill. Defense Attorney Jim Griffin for Murdaugh joins Martha to lay out the allegations being levied against the clerk of court Rebecca Hill, and why her actions would be grounds to receive a new trial for the convicted murderer, and discusses the process of appealing the original conviction. Later, Griffin explains why there would be a need to change the location of a retrial in order to ensure there is an impartial jury, and what Alex and Buster Murdaugh's responses have been to the allegations of jury tampering. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.7	Welcome to the Untold Story podcast.
0:49.6	I'm Martha McCallum, and today I'm joined by a real newsmaker for this week.
0:56.4	I'm with Jim Griffin, who is one of the two lead attorneys with Dick Harputtly and for Alec Murdoch.
0:59.9	And this week was an enormous week for this case.
1:08.2	It now looks like there may be grounds for an appeal and to perhaps this will likely lead to a hearing by the judge based on what we're about to talk about in terms of
1:11.7	the grounds for a potential new trial in the double murder trial for Alec Murdoch, which was watched
1:18.7	so closely by all of our viewers and so intensely across the nation. So Jim, thank you very much for
1:24.1	being with us today. Glad to be here. Martha, thanks for having me. Thank you. So let's start with what happened this week. And I'm curious if you can give us a little bit more insight.
1:33.7	Because after the murder verdict came down for Alec Murdoch, and he was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdoch.
1:48.6	You and Dick Harputlian said right away that there would be an appeal.
1:52.4	At that point, what were you planning on basing your appeal on?
2:00.0	On a number of evidentiary rulings that the judge made that we thought and we respectfully disagree with, you know, we went to try a murder case and we
2:04.5	spent at least two weeks trying a financial crimes case. And it's not a financial crimes case that
2:11.6	we were really contesting. The state claimed that that was motive for Alec to kill his wife and son.
2:18.6	And we, we didn't think that's a logical motive.
2:20.9	There's no evidence to link the two in our view.
2:23.4	And we did not think that that financial crime evidence should have come before the jury,
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