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BY: Will Folks / FITS News / September 21, 2023

On the same day their client appeared in federal court to plead guilty to nearly two dozen financial crimes, attorneys for convicted killer Alex Murdaugh dropped their latest motion on Thursday in connection with seismic jury tampering allegations made earlier this month before the South Carolina court of appeals.

Murdaugh’s attorneys – state senator Dick Harpootlian, veteran Columbia, S.C. lawyer Jim Griffin and attorney Phillip Barber – dropped a bombshell on September 5, 2023 when they alleged jury tampering on the part of Colleton County clerk of court, Becky Hill.

Those allegations are currently being investigated by the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) – which Harpootlian has hinted is less interested in uncovering the facts surrounding the claims and more interested in propping up Murdaugh’s guilty verdicts.

SLED was the lead investigatory agency on the double homicide case – which was tried in Walterboro, S.C. between January 27 – March 3, 2023. At that trial, Murdaugh was found guilty of savagely killing his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, and younger son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh at Moselle – at the family’s 1,700-acre hunting property straddling the Salkehatchie River on the border of Colleton and Hampton counties.

Now Hill has been accused of putting her thumb on the scales of justice – in favor of the state. Murdaugh’s attorneys are asking the appellate court – the second highest court in the Palmetto State – to suspend Murdaugh’s appeal of his convictions so the trial judge in this case, Clifton Newman, can consider the merits of the jury tampering allegations.

Or, so another judge can consider the allegations should Newman be identified as a witness to the current investigation or an impartial arbiter of fact based on his pervious extrajudicial comments about Murdaugh.

The - which reiterates that Hill allegedly “engaged in deliberate jury tampering for money and publicity” – comes less than 48 hours after streaming provider Netflix debuted the latest installment of its expansive documentary, ‘Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal.’

Hill is one of the stars of the latest Netflix offering.

“The very serious allegations against Ms. Hill are not mere speculation but have sworn evidentiary support,” the new filing noted.

Referencing last week’s response from the office of S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson – which focused on alleged procedural deficiencies in the original Murdaugh filing – this document accused the state of responding “in bad faith to these serious allegations.”

Specifically, the pleading accused Wilson’s office of deliberately delaying the matter based on “its desire to conduct unsupervised factual discovery.”

That’s a reference to the ongoing SLED probe – which Harpootlian urged SLED to “stand down” earlier this month.

“(The state) wants Mr. Murdaugh to spend weeks jumping through preposterous procedural hoops invented only for him,” the filing alleged.

This is a developing story … Available via FITS News online

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