Murdaugh Supreme Court Showdown: Justices Expose Cracks in the Conviction
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn't the egg juror allowed to testify at the 2024 evidentiary hearing? From there, the hearing split into two phases that each delivered major moments. On the jury tampering issue, Dick Harpootlian argued that Becky Hill — the former Colleton County Clerk of Court now convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — had a financial motive to push for a guilty verdict. Chief Justice Kittredge told the state that Toal's ruling didn't even address the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled. Justice Few challenged Creighton Waters on the absurdity of calling Hill not completely credible while ignoring her perjury conviction. On the evidentiary side, Jim Griffin argued this was never an overwhelming evidence case — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer evidence on Murdaugh.
Kittredge hammered Waters on Rule 404(b), saying the gate to financial crimes evidence was left wide open and he couldn't find a single example of anything that was excluded. When Waters tried to reference the movie Fargo, Justice Few told him to get to the point. The court took the case under advisement. No decision today. Three possible outcomes remain: affirm, new trial, or remand. But what unfolded in that courtroom didn't look like a court preparing to uphold the status quo. This episode covers every key exchange and what it means going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.8 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.3 | The very first question asked inside the South Carolina Supreme Court the other morning in the |
| 0:11.9 | Alec Murdoch hearing really kind of told you everything you needed to know about where this |
| 0:19.0 | case is headed. |
| 0:20.0 | Justice George James looked at the attorneys, and before anyone could settle into their |
| 0:25.0 | prepared remarks, he asked a simple question. |
| 0:29.7 | Can we consider the affidavit of the egg juror? |
| 0:34.5 | That's the juror dismissed right before deliberations, who former Chief Justice Gene Toll |
| 0:40.8 | refused to let testify at the January 24 evidentiary hearing. The juror whose account of what |
| 0:46.9 | Becky Hill said to the jury panel was apparently too inconvenient to put on record, and now |
| 0:53.0 | nearly two years later, the highest court in the state wants to know why. |
| 0:57.6 | Dick Harputalin's response was almost understated. |
| 1:00.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:02.1 | He told the justices, I'm not sure she stated a coherent reason. |
| 1:07.2 | That answer hung in the room because if the Supreme Court of South Carolina is opening its hearing by asking why a key witness was excluded from the proceeding that was supposed to determine whether there was jury tampering, it's not a court looking to rubber snap a conviction. That's a court looking for answers. |
| 1:25.6 | We're going to get into all of this and what took place at the alec murdaw hearing and where it may lead next |
| 1:31.3 | to alec murdaw the sequel trial could we get there let's get into it uh give me your thoughts in the |
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