{"id":1702,"date":"2026-06-17T20:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:36:03","slug":"first-murdaugh-hearing-set-for-retrial-will-he-appear-and-what-will-he-wear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"First Murdaugh hearing set for retrial: Will he appear? And what will he wear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The first in what is likely to be many hearings leading up to the retrial of Alex Murdaugh\u2019s double murder charges has been scheduled for late June.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1701\">First Murdaugh hearing set for retrial: Will he appear? And what will he wear?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The hearing will take place Monday, June 29, at the Lexington County courthouse, according to a notice tucked away on a section of the Colleton County clerk of court public internet site called \u201cTrial Court Roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Jim Griffin, one of Murdaugh\u2019s lead defense attorneys, gave a few more specifics in a Wednesday interview: The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. Monday, June 29, in the large public courtroom of the courthouse\u2019s fourth floor, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Asked if Murdaugh would attend, Griffin said, \u201cWe believe he will be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Griffin said the defense team, which includes veteran attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Phil Barber, is going to request that Murdaugh be allowed to wear civilian clothes, \u201cparticularly if there are going to be cameras in the courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>It will be up to state Judge Debra McCaslin to set any rules for cameras , laptops and other devices in the courtroom. Under Section One of the S.C. Constitution, &#8220;all courts shall be public.\u201d State judges normally allow recording devices in trials<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh, a disbarred lawyer, was convicted in March 2023 of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son Paul, after a six-week trial at the Colleton County courthouse. The jury deliberated less than three hours. Judge Clifton Newman sentenced him to two life sentences for the murders.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The killings took place n June 2021 at the Murdaughs\u2019 1,700-acre family estate in rural Colleton County.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh has contended he is innocent of the killings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Once Murdaugh\u2019s double murder conviction was overturned in May, he again is \u201cpresumed innocent\u201d under the law of the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>However, due to his convictions for financial crimes, he still is a prison inmate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1700\">Tip on missing woman leads police to expand search to wooded area, SC officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>At Murdaugh\u2019s first trial, in 2023, he wore civilian clothes \u2014 usually a blue blazer, slacks and a dress shirt \u2014 every day until immediately after he was found guilty. The day after his conviction, when he appeared for sentencing, he wore a jail jumpsuit for the first time as a convicted killer, which he of course no longer is as of last month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh is now being held in a high security area of McCormick state prison, a men\u2019s maximum security prison in McCormick County housing some 1,124 inmates. The S.C. Department of Corrections doesn\u2019t officially say what prison Murdaugh is in, but his location has been widely reported.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Asked what may come up at the June 29 hearing, Griffin said, \u201cI would expect we will discuss possible trial dates, motions, deadlines for motions, discovery issues, scheduling of pretrial hearings, etc. Those are typical things addressed in pretrial hearings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Griffin said, \u201cWe do not have any intention of filing substantive motions at this time.\u201d Those \u201csubstantive motions\u201d would be about matters such as change of venue or evidence-related, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>His trial was widely dubbed \u201cthe trial of the century\u201d because of its many sensational elements.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Attracting a worldwide audience on Court TV, the trial featured testimony not only about shockingly brutal murders but also about the naked corruption of a supposedly upstanding lawyer from a powerful legal and political family dynasty who stole millions from his law firm and defenseless clients who had won big settlements in lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The case was also a whodunit. Murdaugh denied killing his wife and son. Maggie had been slain with an assault rifle and Paul with a shotgun \u2014 fatal shootings that allowed the defense to claim there were two killers, not only one as the prosecution contended.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>After the trial, Murdaugh admitted his guilt in state and federal court for numerous financial crimes. He is now serving a 27-year sentence for state financial crimes. When he finishes that, he will report to federal prison to finish out a 40-year sentence for federal financial crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1699\">Eatery near Columbia switching to private event space and commissary kitchen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<div> <related-stories> <\/related-stories><\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One question about Murdaugh\u2019s upcoming first court hearing after his conviction was overturned in May is will he wear civilian clothes or prison garb?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Murdaugh hearing set for retrial: Will he appear? 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