Murdaugh Appeal: Becky Hill's Perjury Conviction Just Changed Everything
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn't been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today's oral arguments and what the bench's aggressive questioning of the state signals about the likely outcome.
Justice Few asked Creighton Waters directly how you can label someone "not completely credible" when her own guilty plea proves she's a liar. Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's order never addressed the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He called the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses "striking." The defense argues the wrong legal standard was applied — and from the bench, it appeared multiple justices agreed.
Kittredge also pressed hard on the financial evidence, telling Waters that Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and that the trial court couldn't seem to find a reason to keep anything out. Jim Griffin argued this case has no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence. If the financial testimony falls, the state's case gets very thin.
Faddis reads the room and explains which of the three possible outcomes — affirm, new trial, or remand — today's hearing most strongly pointed toward.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.1 | Let's move on to another case. |
| 0:10.8 | Blast from the past. |
| 0:12.3 | That's back. |
| 0:13.3 | Alex back. |
| 0:14.7 | All right. |
| 0:15.5 | I don't know why I always hear Backstreet's back all right in my head every time I talk about Alec Murdo. |
| 0:21.6 | But for some reason, that's how my brain works. |
| 0:24.2 | The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alec Murdo's appeal of his double |
| 0:29.4 | murder conviction. |
| 0:30.7 | And the justices came in with some very pointed aggressive questions. |
| 0:36.7 | Most of them aimed squarely at the state with Becky Hills perjury conviction, now part of |
| 0:41.8 | the appellate record. |
| 0:43.2 | The jury tampering issue has taken on a different weight than it carried when Justice Toll |
| 0:48.5 | denied a new trial back in January of 24. |
| 0:51.7 | Defense attorney Eric Fattis is with us to help us break this down. |
| 0:57.0 | Eric, when you watch the oral arguments, the pace of the questioning, the tone from |
| 1:01.5 | the bench, the pressure on Creighton Waters, what was your read and how the justices |
| 1:09.3 | were approaching this case? You know, with these appellate |
| 1:15.3 | hearings, you can take a lot away from the questions that the judges are asking, but also |
| 1:19.5 | their tone. And there were times where it seemed like, you know, these justices were peppering |
| 1:26.6 | the DA with questions in a friendly |
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