{"id":2022650,"date":"2023-09-05T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaughs-lawyers-expect-disgraced-lawyer-to-receive-new-trial-alleging-jury-tampering\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:23:20","slug":"alex-murdaughs-lawyers-expect-disgraced-lawyer-to-receive-new-trial-alleging-jury-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaughs-lawyers-expect-disgraced-lawyer-to-receive-new-trial-alleging-jury-tampering\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Murdaugh&#8217;s legal team anticipates a fresh trial for the disgraced lawyer, citing potential jury tampering."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falex-murdaughs-lawyers-expect-disgraced-lawyer-to-receive-new-trial-alleging-jury-tampering%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Attorneys for Disgraced South Carolina Lawyer \u200bAlex \u200bMurdaugh Optimistic for New Trial Amid Allegations of\u2063 Juror Interference<\/h2>\n<p>Attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin,\u2064 representing Alex Murdaugh,\u2063 have filed a motion seeking a stay of Murdaugh&#8217;s double murder conviction \u200band\u2062 a new trial. The \u2064motion \u2062alleges that Colleton County Clerk of Court \u2063Rebecca Hill\u200d tampered with the jury during the \u200dsix-week trial.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Allegations of Jury \u200bTampering<\/h3>\n<p>The defense\u200c attorneys claim \u200dthat Hill \u200dadvised jurors to disregard \u200dMurdaugh&#8217;s testimony and other evidence presented by\u200d the defense.\u200d They\u200d accuse her of pressuring the jury to quickly reach a guilty verdict and misrepresenting crucial information to the\u200c trial judge. The motion also states that Hill \u200battempted to\u2064 remove a juror she believed favored the defense by inventing a story about a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harpootlian and Griffin have released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-ag-calls-for-investigation-into-cuomo-harassment-claims-with-subpoena-power\/\" title=\"New York AG Calls For Investigation Into Cuomo Harassment Claims With Subpoena Power\">statement requesting<\/a> \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-may-have-to-use-his-break-the-glass-option-to-keep-hunter-out-of-jail-top-law-professor\/\" title=\"Top law professor suggests Biden may need to resort to extreme measures to prevent Hunter from going to jail.\">federal \u200dinvestigation<\/a> into the violation of Murdaugh&#8217;s\u2063 civil rights. They believe that the allegations in their petition shed light on certain peculiarities observed during the \u2062trial.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Defense\u200c Lawyers&#8217; Statement<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The serious allegations in the\u2064 petition \u2062filed \u2064today speak for themselves, but \u2062we believe they explain a number of peculiarities in the six-week trial,&#8221;\u2064 the\u200b defense lawyers said. They also expressed\u2063 their confidence in \u200dMurdaugh&#8217;s innocence and their belief that the truth will ultimately prevail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The motion \u2062further \u200cclaims that Hill instructed jurors \u2063not \u2064to \u200cbe misled by \u200dthe defense&#8217;s evidence and warned them not to be fooled by Murdaugh&#8217;s\u200b testimony. Harpootlian and Griffin are demanding\u200c an evidentiary\u200c hearing to explore the \u200dpossibility \u200bof a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>During \u200ca news\u200c conference, Griffin\u2064 expressed optimism about \u2063the chances of\u2064 obtaining a new trial but acknowledged uncertainty regarding the timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh was convicted on two\u200b murder charges\u2064 and received\u200d two life \u2063sentences without \u2064parole. He appealed the conviction and sentencing shortly after. Additionally,\u200c a change of plea\u2063 hearing has \u2063been scheduled for\u200c September 21, indicating the possibility of Murdaugh changing his\u2064 not guilty plea for \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaughs-lawyers-expect-disgraced-lawyer-to-receive-new-trial-alleging-jury-tampering\/\" title=\"Alex Murdaugh's legal team anticipates a fresh trial for the disgraced lawyer, citing potential jury tampering.\">separate federal financial \u200ccrimes<\/a>\u2062 to guilty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The\u200d Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh, a disgraced SC lawyer, are hopeful for a new trial. They provided evidence suggesting juror interference, prompting defense lawyers Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin to file a motion seeking a stay on Murdaugh&#8217;s double murder conviction and a fresh trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}