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Three years after he was led out of court in chains, convicted of brutally murdering his wife and son, disgraced Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh returns to a South Carolina courtroom Monday for the first hearing since his murder conviction was overturned.
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On May 13, the S.C. Supreme Court set aside Murdaugh’s 2023 conviction in the murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul, shot to death at the Murdaugh family home in Colleton County five years ago.
Now Murdaugh is set to appear in a Lexington County courtroom starting at 10 a.m. ahead of a second trial on those murder charges.
Monday’s pretrial hearing will deal with motions filed by attorneys as they prepare to retry a case that attracted global attention to a county courthouse in Walterboro where Murdaugh was first tried in 2023.
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The hearing before Judge Debra McCaslin at the Lexington courthouse will bring together many familiar faces from that widely televised trial: defense attorneys Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian, lead prosecutor Creighton Waters, as well as Murdaugh himself.
A line of people hoping to get into the courtroom had started forming outside the courthouse early Monday morning, with some hopefuls arriving as early as 4 a.m. to maximize theri chances of getting a seat inside.
Proceedings will be livestreamed by CourtTV, and The State will have live updates here once the hearing gets underway.
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