{"id":4354,"date":"2026-08-05T21:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:38:43","slug":"becky-hill-wins-as-judge-dismisses-alex-murdaughs-lawsuit-against-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"Becky Hill wins as judge dismisses Alex Murdaugh\u2019s lawsuit against her"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Former clerk of court Becky Hill  won.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Hill was revealed to have plagiarized parts of her book on Alex Murdaugh\u2019s 2023 double-murder trial. She later resigned her Colleton County clerk of court\u2019s post in disgrace. In 2025, she pleaded guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. Earlier this year, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Hill\u2019s jury tampering in Murdaugh\u2019s murder trial was \u201cshocking jury interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=4352\">NC GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards ends reelection campaign after sexual harassment report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Hill prevailed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Federal Judge Richard Gergel of Charleston dismissed a lawsuit against her brought by Murdaugh that sought $600,000 and other compensation for tampering with the jury during his double-murder trial.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gergel\u2019s order of dismissal said that there was no connection linking Murdaugh\u2019s purported loss of money \u2014 some $600,000 in funds from Murdaugh\u2019s retirement account he liquidated for his murder defense \u2014 and Hill\u2019s jury tampering.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing,\u201d said Columbia lawyer Dick Harpootlian, one of Murdaugh\u2019s attorneys, later Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In his five-page order, Gergel said Murdaugh\u2019s complaint, filed in May, contained \u201ca fatal flaw\u2014the lack of a causal connection between the funds he expended for his defense in the first trial and Defendant\u2019s misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>If Hill, \u201chad not engaged in her communications with jurors and had performed her clerk of court duties properly, (Murdaugh) would have still needed to expend the funds necessary to pay for his defense,\u201d Gergel wrote.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gergel explained that Hill had no role in bringing criminal charges against Murdaugh and played no part in his prosecution.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh \u201cliquidated his retirement account ($600,000) to fund his defense, which was necessary without regard to the misconduct of (Hill). Simply stated, (Hill\u2019s) misconduct was not a proximate cause of (Murdaugh\u2019s) need to fund his defense costs, and there is no credible allegation that \u2018but for\u2019 (Hill\u2019s) actions, (Murdaugh) would not have found it necessary to fund his defense costs in the first trial,\u201d Gergel wrote.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Hill\u2019s attorneys were Charles Turner, Jr., G. Troy Thames, J. Nathan Ozmint and Bowman Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are obviously very pleased for our client Ms. Hill that the Court agreed with our legal position in reaching its decision in granting our Motion to Dismiss. However, since the case is not formally concluded, we cannot comment further at this time,\u201d said Greenville attorney Turner in an email to The State newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=4350\">More record heat expected for SC in August. When will it end?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In a memo filed in June in Hill\u2019s defense, her attorneys argued that Murdaugh had to show that his losses were caused by Hill\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch cannot be the case here, where the entirety of the economic damages claimed by the Plaintiff would have been spent on his criminal defense regardless of any actions taken by this Defendant,\u201d Hill\u2019s attorneys argued.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh is currently in state prison serving a 27-year state sentence for embezzling funds. When that sentence finishes, he will be transferred to federal prison, where he will finish out a 40-year sentence for fraud, money laundering and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>He is not expected to be released until he is in his mid-80s or 90s. In all, Murdaugh is estimated to have stolen more than $10 million from clients and his law firm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, a Colleton County jury convicted Murdaugh of the 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son Paul at the family 1,700-acre estate in a rural part of the county.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In May, the state Supreme Court unanimously overturned, 5-0, Murdaugh\u2019s double-murder conviction, citing Hill\u2019s jury tampering as the reason. The five justices held that Hill\u2019s jury tampering violated Murdaugh\u2019s constitutional right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are seeking a new murder trial, which state Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set for April 5 at a location to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh\u2019s case and all of its tangled elements of fraud, murder, power and dynasty is one of South Carolina\u2019s most newsworthy cases in modern state history. It has for five years attracted national attention and spawned numerous newspaper articles, television shows, books and podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=4348\">South Carolina collects a slew of data. Lawmakers want USC to help make use of it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news story and may be updated.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Judge Richard Gergel ruled there was no link between Becky Hill\u2019s jury tampering and Murdaugh\u2019s liquidating his retirement fund for his murder defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","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>Becky Hill wins as judge dismisses Alex Murdaugh\u2019s lawsuit against her - US Moving Experts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=4354\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Becky Hill wins as judge dismisses Alex Murdaugh\u2019s lawsuit against her - 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