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SC Supreme Court to hear Alex Murdaugh double murder appeal
The appeal challenges alleged jury tampering and the use of financial crimes as motive in the double murder conviction of Alex Murdaugh, sentenced to two life terms.
- On February 11, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court will hear Alex Murdaugh's murder-conviction appeal in Columbia, with oral arguments live-streamed to the public.
- Murdaugh's lawyers claim jury tampering by Becky Hill, former Colleton County clerk, after the February 11, 2026, appeal hearing for his 2023 conviction for the June 7, 2021 killings.
- Defense filings detail investigative failures including trampled areas, unlifted fingerprints, and unexamined tire tracks, while Circuit Court evidence allowed testimony on Murdaugh's embezzlement, which Murdaugh's defense team challenges as improper.
- Jean Toal, former South Carolina Chief Justice, denied a new-trial request in February 2026, while Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to two life sentences and both sides filed final briefs.
- A high-court ruling could shape rules on jury tampering and financial-misconduct evidence, with the case making headlines and spawning documentaries and two TV movies, including one recently on Hulu.
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SC Supreme Court to hear Alex Murdaugh double murder appeal
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – Disgraced Hampton County lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is scheduled to appear before the South Carolina Supreme Court in February. Murdaugh and his team will present their case to convince the state’s highest court that he did not kill his wife, Margaret, and his youngest son, Paul, in June of [...]
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