SCAG grants extension to Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of murder convictions
The South Carolina Supreme Court has granted the Attorney General’s Office more time to respond to Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his murder convictions.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has granted the Attorney General’s Office more time to respond to Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his murder convictions.
Former banker and alleged Alex Murdaugh co-conspirator Russell Laffitte plead guilty to federal fraud charges last week, according to court documents filed Monday.
The Murdaugh murder saga continues after the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office faces a deadline to respond to convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s Supreme Court appeal brief.
A federal judge has ruled convicted killer and disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh owes an insurance company $14.8 million as punishment for a fraud scheme in which he brazenly stole the proceeds of a multimillion-dollar wrongful death settlement intended for his former housekeeper’s children.
Former banker and alleged Alex Murdaugh co-conspirator Russell Laffitte’s federal conviction was vacated Thursday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a new filing.
Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has settled a lawsuit related to a 2019 boat crash involving his son, which resulted in the death of University of South Carolina student Mallory Beach and eventually led to the now-disbarred lawyer’s downfall.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government’s motion Tuesday to dismiss convicted killer Alex Murdaugh’s appealof his federal sentence for financial crimes.
The appeals are just beginning for disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is almost three years into a life sentence without parole for killing his wife and son.
Attorney Jim Griffin, who represents convicted killer Alex Murdaugh, told WCIV Tuesday the South Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear Murdaugh’s jury tampering appeal. No date has been set when the court would hear the case as of Tuesday.
United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina Adair Boroughs filed a motionThursday in the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to dismiss Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his federal sentence for financial crimes.