{"id":2209115,"date":"2024-03-29T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-reveal-reason-they-believe-client-failed-polygraph-test\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:06:25","slug":"alex-murdaughs-attorneys-reveal-reason-they-believe-client-failed-polygraph-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-reveal-reason-they-believe-client-failed-polygraph-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Murdaugh&#8217;s lawyers disclose why they think their client didn&#8217;t pass the polygraph test"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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-attorneys-reveal-reason-they-believe-client-failed-polygraph-test%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=2209115&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--><p>Attorneys representing Alex \u200bMurdaugh revealed that\u2063 they believe their\u200c client&#8217;s failed polygraph test was influenced by odd\u2062 questioning and the\u2063 mention of another killer by the\u200d test administrator. The FBI is attempting to revoke Murdaugh&#8217;s plea agreement, alleging \u200bhe lied about \u200dmisappropriated funds. The attorneys argue that highlighting \u200bthe failed polygraph while withholding the \u2064results violates transparency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh say their client failed a polygraph test because he was asked strange questions and the test administrator mentioned another killer before the test was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is trying to back out of its plea agreement with Murdaugh, who pleaded guilty last year to federal financial crimes. The FBI says that Murdaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-claims-alex-murdaugh-lied-about-what-stolen-client-money-was-spent-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lied<\/a> about where more than $6 million of stolen client money went, and whether an unnamed attorney helped him steal it.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is basing its attempt to revoke the plea agreement on the failed polygraph test, but it has asked the courts not to release the results. Murdaugh\u2019s attorneys filed a motion on Thursday opposing the federal prosecutors\u2019 request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo allow the Government to publicly accuse Murdaugh of breaching his plea agreement while also allowing the Government to hide all purported evidence supporting that accusation from the public would violate the public\u2019s right to the truth,\u201d Murdaugh\u2019s attorneys, Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian, wrote in their motion, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/03\/28\/us\/alex-murdaugh-lie-detector-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polygraph tests are not permitted as evidence in court because they are notoriously unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys argued in court documents that the polygraph Murdaugh failed was not reliable because the administrator admitted to Murdaugh that he had just tested Joran van der Sloot, who admitted to killing Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are legitimate questions as to whether the Government intentionally manipulated the results to void the plea agreement and achieve the prosecutors\u2019 stated desire to \u2018ensure that he\u2019s never a free man again,\u2019\u201d\u00a0the attorneys wrote, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alex-murdaugh-fbi-plea-deal-sentencing-6160a341f0adc6e3e17cf996bb1a8bce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys also included court documents from Murdaugh\u2019s state murder case, in which prosecutors fought to keep the defense\u2019s polygraph results out of the trial. A friend of Murdaugh failed a polygraph when asked if he had been involved in the murder of Murdaugh\u2019s wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh was convicted of killing his family members and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. He is appealing his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alex-murdaugh-sentenced-to-27-years-for-financial-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> to stealing around $12 million from clients over the years after promising to help them with medical bills or pain and suffering. One victim, Jordan Jinks, had been a friend of Murdaugh\u2019s since they were children. He asked Murdaugh to represent him after he incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills for a neck injury resulting from someone rear-ending his car.<\/p>\n<p>Jinks paid the bills, assured that Murdaugh would obtain a settlement to refund him. When Murdaugh received that settlement, he kept the money for himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money you stole from me, I would have gave it to you,\u201d Jinks said during Murdaugh\u2019s sentencing. \u201cWhy bro? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While taking responsibility for the financial crimes, Murdaugh adamantly denies killing his wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to take responsibility. I want my son to see me take responsibility. It\u2019s my hope that by taking responsibility that the people I\u2019ve hurt can begin to heal,\u201d Murdaugh said when pleading guilty in September.<\/p>\n<p>His defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, noted at the time: \u201cThere\u2019s two things Alex will tell you. One, he stole the money. Two, he did not kill Maggie and Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Murdaugh&#8217;s attorneys claim he flunked a polygraph due to odd questioning and the mention of another killer by the examiner. The FBI seeks to revoke a plea deal with Murdaugh, who admitted guilt for financial offenses in the past year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2209116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2107853431-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2107853431-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209115","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\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}