Alex Murdaugh on Jan. 16, 2024.Photo:Tracy Glantz/The State via AP

Alex Murdaugh, convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in June 2021, stands with his defense team during a hearing on a motion for a retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, at the Richland County Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C.

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• Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys have accused Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of tampering with the jury

• Murdaugh’s attorneys alleged that Hill repeatedly referenced Murdaugh to the jury in ways that made him appear guilty and put pressure on jurors to reach a quick verdict

Murdaugh’s attorneys alleged that Hill repeatedly referenced Murdaugh to the jury in ways that made him appear guilty. They also claim she made efforts to remove a juror she wasn’t confident would turn in a guilty verdict. Murdaugh’s attorneys also claim Hill “pressured the jurors to reach a quick verdict, telling them from the outset of their deliberations that it ‘shouldn’t take them long,’ “ according to the motion.

Maggie Murdaugh, left, and Paul Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/ Facebook

Maggie Murdaugh; Paul Murdaugh

Maggie Murdaugh/ Facebook

Last March,Murdaugh was found guiltyof the murders of his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and son, Paul Murdaugh, 22.  The two were shot and killed — with two different guns — on their 1,770-acre property in Islandton, S.C., on June 7, 2021.

In July of 2022, more than a year after the murders, Alex was arrested and charged with their murders.

Jurors in Murdaugh’s murder trial deliberated for less than three hours before delivering the guilty verdicts. Murdaugh was sentenced totwo life sentences in prisonfor the murders.

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At the start of the trial, prosecutor Creighton Waters revealed thatPaul had taken a cell phone videonear the dog kennels on the Islandton property at 8:44 p.m. on the night the murders occurred. The video features the voices of Paul, Maggie and Murdaugh and was a key component for the prosecution becauseMurdaugh denied being near the kennels— where Maggie and Paul were murdered — for nearly two years.

Despite his previous denials, when Murdaugh took the stand, he admitted that he lied about his whereabouts.

“I lied about being down there, and I’m so sorry that I did,” Murdaugh said on the stand. However, to this day, he adamantly denies fatally shooting his wife and youngest son.

source: people.com