COLUMBIA, S.C. (Court TV) — As he fights for a new trial, Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys are calling attention to a series of text messages they say were withheld from them during the trial.
Alex Murdaugh, convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in June 2021, sits during a hearing on a motion for a retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, at the Richland County Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C. (Tracy Glantz/The State via AP, Pool)
Murdaugh, a once prominent attorney from a storied South Carolina family, was convicted of murdering his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and their younger son, Paul Murdaugh. Alex was sentenced to life in prison for killing the two, who were found shot to death on the family’s Lowcountry property on June 7, 2021.
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