Alex Murdaugh’s defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife’s fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2021, a judge said Friday, part of an increasingly bitter battle over what evidence can be used in his murder retrial next year.
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LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Former Hampton County attorney Alex Murdaugh is scheduled to appear in a Lexington County courtroom Friday morning for a status hearing as attorneys continue preparing for his murder retrial next year.
By Nicki Brown, Dianne Gallagher, Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Alex Murdaugh is due back in court Friday as his lawyers push for South Carolina prosecutors to turn over information and evidence they say could be instrumental to the disgraced attorney’s defense in his second double-murder trial.
Alex Murdaugh’s defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife’s fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2021, a judge said Friday, part of an increasingly bitter battle over what evidence can be used in his murder retrial next year.
(NewsNation) A South Carolina judge ruled in favor of lawyers for Alex Murdaugh on Friday, allowing them to conduct new DNA testing ahead of his retrial. Murdaugh returned to court for a pretrial hearing over DNA and ballistics evidence, as well as other pending issues, ahead of his murder retrial i…
LEXINGTON, SC — The judge overseeing Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder retrial rebuked both sides Friday over their bitter evidence fights, warning she “will not allow these proceedings to become a circus.” During the tense hearing, Judge Debra McCaslin handed the defense a win on their DNA testing requ…
LEXINGTON, S.C. -- Alex Murdaugh's defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife's fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2021, a judge said Friday, part of an increasingly bitter battle over what evidence can be used in his murder retrial next year.
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