Alex Murdaugh appeals Fed financial crimes sentence
Former Low Country attorney Alex Murdaugh is appealing the 40 year sentence he received earlier this month for federal financial crimes.
Former Low Country attorney Alex Murdaugh is appealing the 40 year sentence he received earlier this month for federal financial crimes.
Attorneys for convicted killer and disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh filed a notice of appeal Thursday regarding the denial of Murdaugh’s motion for a new trial.
The co-author who worked with former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill to publish a book about Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial says his share of the proceeds from the book sales will be going to charities in the Lowcountry.
For maybe the last time, Alex Murdaugh, in a prison jumpsuit instead of the suit he used to wear, shuffled into a courtroom Monday in South Carolina and was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh said an FBI agent conducting a polygraph test that the agency said the convicted killer flunked asked odd questions and confided he had just examined the notorious Dutch killer of an Alabama teen, throwing the results off.
Elizabeth “Libby” Alexander Murdaugh, mother of Alex Murdaugh and wife of the late Randolph Murdaugh III, died Tuesday afternoon, according to Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home.
The Murdaugh family’s infamous Moselle property is under contract to become a horse farm after an online auction this week.
Newly released body cam video shows the moment Alex Murdaugh was arrested outside of a rehab facility in Florida where he received treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
The last of Alex Murdaugh’s assets will be divided amongst 16 different parties.
“The problem is Becky got on the stand and lied about whether she had given a juror a ride home, and the defense correctly identified that in their closing argument. But one of the other things missing in that closing argument was one of the jurors lied about it too. We don’t know which one, but nobody said they got a ride home from Becky Hill, so one of the jurors lied about it as well, and that’s huge. That goes to the direct credibility of these jurors,” says Murray.