Alex Murdaugh wins new trial after court clerk allegedly told jurors not to be 'fooled' by defense

Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina ineligible scion convicted of sidesplitting his woman and son, is getting a 2nd changeable successful tribunal aft the state’s highest tribunal tossed his execution convictions implicit assemblage tampering.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that misconduct by a tribunal authoritative tainted the 2023 proceedings that sent Murdaugh distant for life.

At the halfway of the stunning reversal is erstwhile Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca "Becky" Hill, who oversaw the blockbuster proceedings and was aboriginal accused of improperly influencing jurors. According to the court, Hill made comments that could person swayed however jurors viewed the grounds and pushed them toward a blameworthy verdict.

Alex Murdaugh is brought into the courtroom during a jury-tampering proceeding astatine the Richland County Judicial Center successful Columbia, S.C., connected Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier)

According to grounds reviewed by the court, jurors said Hill told them to "watch him closely," "watch his actions," and not beryllium "fooled" by the defense.

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One juror recalled "that Hill told the jurors not to beryllium fooled by the grounds Murdaugh's defence presented," according to the document, saying, "They're going to accidental things that volition effort to confuse you. Don't fto them confuse you oregon person you oregon propulsion you off." 

The documents accidental Hill tried to "insert herself into the jury's deliberations done these comments was successful enactment with her stated tendency for a blameworthy verdict to merchantability much copies of the publication she planned to write."

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The ruling references the post-trial court's uncovering that, "Hill was attracted by the siren telephone of celebrity" and "allowed her tendency for the nationalist attraction of the infinitesimal to flooded her work to her oath of office."

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"Accordingly, we clasp Murdaugh's close to a just proceedings by an impartial assemblage was violated, and the post-trial tribunal erred successful denying his question for a caller trial," the ruling says. 

Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill smiles aft pleading blameworthy successful St. Matthews, S.C., connected Dec. 8, 2025. Hill pleaded blameworthy to showing sealed exhibits from Alex Murdaugh's execution proceedings and different charges. (Jeffrey Collins/AP)

Because Hill was a apical tribunal official, her words carried antithetic value and raised superior concerns that the jury’s determination whitethorn not person been based solely connected the grounds presented astatine trial.

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In December 2025, Hill pleaded blameworthy to 4 charges — obstruction of justness and perjury for showing a newsman photographs that were sealed tribunal exhibits and past lying astir it, positive 2 counts of misconduct successful bureau for taking bonuses and promoting a publication she wrote connected the proceedings done her nationalist office.

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"There is nary excuse for the mistakes I made. I’m ashamed of them and volition transportation that shame the remainder of my life," Hill said successful a connection work to the court.

There is nary excuse for the mistakes I made.

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She was sentenced to 3 years of probation.

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In 2023, Murdaugh was convicted of gunning down his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, astatine the family’s hunting property successful 2021. The lawsuit exposed a web of lies, including Murdaugh’s opioid addiction and millions successful stolen lawsuit funds.

Despite the ineligible triumph Wednesday, Murdaugh volition not beryllium walking free. He remains down bars serving lengthy sentences for a drawstring of fiscal crimes that cemented his autumn from power.

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Alex Murdaugh is handcuffed aft being recovered blameworthy connected each 4 charges, including 2 counts of execution and 2 counts of possessing a limb during a convulsive crime, astatine the Colleton County Courthouse successful Walterboro connected March 2, 2023. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post and Courier)

For his fiscal crimes, Murdaugh was sentenced successful authorities tribunal to 27 years successful situation aft pleading blameworthy to 22 counts including wealth laundering and breach of trust. In national court, helium received a 40-year condemnation for conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and slope fraud, which helium is serving concurrently with his authorities time.

Though his execution convictions and consequent beingness sentences were overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court connected Wednesday, helium remains successful situation to service the fiscal sentences.

Fox News Digital's Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.