Fifty-two minutes into a recent pretrial hearing for Alex Murdaugh, his defense lawyer Dick Harpootlian brought up a report that described drug transactions between the Cowboys drug gang and the man who allegedly supplied Murdaugh with drugs for years.
Harpootlian told Judge Debra McCaslin that the report was an example of how thousands of pages of evidence were turned over to the defense at the last minute at Murdaugh’s 2023 double murder trial.
And because that last-minute evidence was so voluminous, the defense never got around to examining it, Harpootlian said…