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Bonus: Bombshell Murdaugh Murders Update! New Trial for Alex Murdaugh? | Crime Alert Hourly Update · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 2: Crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson breaking crime news now, new
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  Speaker 2: developments and the Alex Murdau murders. The South Carolina Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court has agreed to review whether a judge was wrong
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  Speaker 2: to deny a new trial with a defense arguing that
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  Speaker 2: the trial is tainted by jury tampering. You may remember
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  Speaker 2: murdas the disgraced attorney convicted of murdering his wife and son,
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  Speaker 2: using a different gun on each shortly before this body
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  Speaker 2: cam footage. That's Saul, Yes, sir, they've already checked them.
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  Speaker 2: They did check them.
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  Speaker 1: The subsision that they're dead, Yes, sir, that's what.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like. The defense argues the jury tampering was
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  Speaker 2: orchestrated by former Collinson County Clerk Rebecca Hill, whom they
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  Speaker 2: claim influenced the jury for personal gain. In the original trial,
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  Speaker 2: Murdaw was found guilty of the two murders at their
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  Speaker 2: Callinton County home, and the defense says Hill was motivated
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  Speaker 2: by the potential profits from her self published book when
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  Speaker 2: she told jurors not to be swayed by the defendant's
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  Speaker 2: emotional testimony. A lawyer from Murdaw says quote the trial
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  Speaker 2: court abused its discretion when finding that the jury's verdict
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  Speaker 2: was not affected by miss Hill's tampering. Hill's credibility was
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  Speaker 2: called into question after she admitted plagiarizing parts of her book.
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  Speaker 2: The book has been removed from publication. She ended up
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  Speaker 2: resigning as county clerk after the South Carolina Law Enforcement
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  Speaker 2: Division launched an investigation. A judge denied the request for
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  Speaker 2: a new trial, saying the defense had not provided sufficient
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  Speaker 2: evidence that Hill's comments influenced the jury's decision. Defense attorneys
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  Speaker 2: cite the significant public interest and legal importance of the
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  Speaker 2: case and pushing for the South Carolina Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 2: consider whether a state official secret advocacy for a guilty
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  Speaker 2: verdict automatically warrants a new trial. The defense argues that
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  Speaker 2: could set precedent. Quote. This case is about more than
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  Speaker 2: just one trial. It's about preserving the integrity of the
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  Speaker 2: justice system. Murdaw's case has gained widespread attention, partly due
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  Speaker 2: to a prior scandal involving his son. Before the murders,
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  Speaker 2: the son was involved in a fatal boat accident that
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  Speaker 2: resulted in the death of a young woman, further complicating
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  Speaker 2: the family's legal troubles and leading to lawsuits. Alex Murdau, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: is serving two life sentences for the killings. For the
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