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struggle4progress

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4. Judge denies Murdaugh new trial
Mon Jan 29, 2024, 10:34 PM
Jan 2024

Jan. 29, 2024, 4:56 PM EST / Updated Jan. 29, 2024, 5:48 PM EST
By Juliette Arcodia, Haylee Barber and Erik Ortiz

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A judge Monday denied convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh a new trial after a daylong evidentiary hearing that centered on allegations that a court clerk had tampered with the jury and tainted the verdict.

Judge Jean Toal made the ruling after hearing testimony from all 12 jurors in Murdaugh's trial and the Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill.

Toal said Murdaugh had to show that the clerk had made an improper comment and that it influenced the jury. She found that Hill is "not completely credible as a witness" and was lured "by the siren call of celebrity," but that the jurors were not persuaded by her actions ...

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4436530-judge-declines-new-trial-for-alex-murdaugh/

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Does the clerk still have a job? Sneederbunk Jan 2024 #1
FFS. marble falls Jan 2024 #2
Breaking news: not gonna happen. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #3
Judge denies Murdaugh new trial struggle4progress Jan 2024 #4
good. scumbag killed his own kid BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2024 #6
Just finished reading Tangled Vines by John livetohike Feb 2024 #5
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