Breaking Down Alex Murdaugh's Appeal in Front of SC Supreme Court
Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases
Matt Harris and Seton Tucker
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Impact of influence. |
| 0:03.5 | Covering true crime throughout the southeast. |
| 0:09.0 | If you had condensed your theory of motive, the whole gathering storm thing, down to the essentials and left out all the stuff that the Chief Justice and Justice James were talking about it. |
| 0:21.4 | And in my view, you could have done that in about an hour and a half or two hours. |
| 0:24.0 | You took 12 and a half hours to do it. |
| 0:26.9 | That's some sound from the oral arguments arguing for Ellick Murdoch's appeal over the double murder conviction for the South Carolina Supreme Court. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello, friend. I am Matt Harris. Seaton Tucker next to me. If you want to join the conversation, |
| 0:42.7 | it is Facebook, or you go to the YouTube channel and hit subscribe. But, Seaton, you were at |
| 0:48.0 | this big deal, the big day in Columbia. I was. It's the first time I've ever attended an oral argument. The |
| 0:56.8 | Supreme Court is really actually very exciting and cool. I would bet. I'm going to go again. |
| 1:01.8 | And yeah, so it was crowded, full house. It was a full house. I think the first people arrived at |
| 1:06.8 | 3.45. And I talked to Melissa Gordon, who co-wrote the book with Neil, or whose husband co-wrote |
| 1:16.6 | the book with Becky Hill. And she arrived at six, and she said there was only like six people |
| 1:22.7 | in front of her when she arrived. I got there at 7.30 and was easily able to get in. I think if you got there, |
| 1:28.5 | they opened the doors at 8.30. I think if you got there by 8.30, you probably got in. |
| 1:34.2 | But it was full. So I'm thinking maybe some people got declined if they showed up after that. |
| 1:38.7 | And we saw, you saw some of the old chums from the Murdoch Day. It was, oh, yeah, all the media that attended the Murdoch trial were there, |
| 1:46.3 | the Fitznews crew, Wall Street Journal, Dateline, HBO, John Monk with the state paper. |
| 1:54.2 | Jason. |
| 1:55.1 | Jason. |
| 1:55.8 | Yeah, Jason, who is now back working full-time for the Post-A-Cur. |
| 1:59.6 | He wrote the book book Swamp Kings, |
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