Trials & Litigation
After granting change of venue, choose declares location for Alex Murdaugh’s retrial
Alex Murdaugh arrives for a judicial listening to June 29, 2026, on the Marc H. Westbrook Judicial Middle in Lexington, South Carolina. (Photograph by Tracy Glantz/The State by way of the Related Press)
The retrial for Alex Murdaugh, a former South Carolina lawyer convicted of killing his spouse and son in 2023, might be moved to Sumter, South Carolina, which is about 83 miles from Walterboro, South Carolina, the place the primary trial occurred.
In Might, the South Carolina Supreme Court docket overturned Murdaugh’s conviction on the idea that Rebecca Hill, a former clerk of courtroom for Colleton County, South Carolina, improperly influenced the jury, the Sumter Item reports.
The retrial is scheduled for April 2027.
The courtroom discovered that Murdaugh couldn’t obtain a good and neutral trial once more in Walterboro, FITSNews reports, and the Sumter courthouse has the area, the safety and the expertise to accommodate a high-profile trial.
Murdaugh, who practiced private damage regulation along with his family-owned regulation agency, was additionally charged in federal courtroom with allegedly stealing cash from shoppers. And in 2023, he pleaded responsible to expenses together with wire fraud, financial institution fraud and cash laundering, in response to a September 2023 press release from the U.S. District Court docket for the District of South Carolina.
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