Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Conviction Tossed on Clerk Interference

Richard Alexander Murdaugh, the disbarred South Carolina attorney found guilty in 2023 of murdering his wife and son, won his bid Wednesday to overturn his conviction and get a new trial over comments the county clerk made to jurors.

The Colleton County clerk “egregiously attacked Murdaugh’s credibility and his defense, thus triggering the presumption of prejudice, which the State was unable to rebut,” the South Carolina Supreme Court said in a per curiam opinion.