Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh, 56, filed an appeal for a new murder trial on Tuesday, citing improper testimony and Becky ...

It was the local murder trial that made national and international news. You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing more about ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh are taking two paths to appeal his murder convictions for killing his wife ...

The “Egg Lady” won’t take “no” for an answer. After the S.C. Supreme Court’s most recent rejection of her request to release a still-secret transcript from the murder trial of Alex ...

Jurors sitting on a case are not supposed to discuss the case with anyone, and the judge had repeatedly instructed the Murdaugh jury to keep silent until it began deliberations. At the end of his ...

Conviction and 7-Year Sentence for Alex Murdaugh's Banker Overturned in Appeal ... during deliberations in Russell Laffitte's trial. The jury had been deliberating nearly eight hours — well ...

A lengthy and long-awaited appeal for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was filed Tuesday in the South Carolina Supreme Court.

The 4th Circuit determined Laffitte’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury had been violated. Laffitte had been convicted on six counts of bank fraud. As an old friend of Murdaugh’s and ...

His appeals case was argued in September. Thursday, the court ruled in Lafitte’s favor. In 2022, a jury convicted Laffitte of helping Murdaugh steal around $2 million in legal settlements and ...

The trial judge, Clifton Newman, said that the jury was entitled to consider whether Murdaugh’s “apparent desperation” and ...