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Why Was Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Handed to a Judge Who Says She Ignores the Internet?

The first Alex Murdaugh trial wasn't just decided in a courtroom — it was swallowed by everything around it. A clerk of court writing a book about the case while she was supposed to be guarding the jury. Cameras in every corner of Walterboro. Podcasters, streamers, and true crime creators turning a small South Carolina town into a content farm. And when the dust settled, the state Supreme Court threw the whole verdict out, in part because of what happened to that jury outside the evidence.Now meet the woman in charge of making sure it never happens again. Judge Debra McCaslin wrote on her own…

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