- The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is now seeking to unseal records from Alex Murdaugh’s original murder trial.
- These records relate to the dismissal of juror Myra Crosby, also known as the “Egg Juror.”
- The unsealed documents could impact other legal cases involving former Clerk of Court Becky Hill.
In a reversal from its position during the original murder trial of Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, heading into the April 2027 retrial, the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office wants to unseal some confidential records and lay all its cards on the table.
Previously, on June 4, Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a motion with the S.C. Supreme Court retracting its objection to the unsealing of “in camera,” or private, conversations in the judge’s chambers which led to the dismissal of Myra Crosby, a juror in the 2023 double murder trial of Richard “Alex” Murdaugh.
On Monday, July 6, the Attorney General’s Office followed that by officially filing a motion to unseal documents related to the juror inquiries from Murdaugh’s original murder trial. The State is asking to unseal, with appropriate privacy redactions and necessary time for careful review, the original trial transcript and related investigative materials that led Judge Clifton Newman to dismiss Crosby for alleged violation of the court’s orders…