A South Carolina decide has chosen the situation for Alex Murdaugh’s retrial on prices alleging he killed his spouse and son, ordering it to happen some 80 miles from the positioning of the unique trial.
Decide Debra McCaslin ruled last month that the retrial can’t happen wherever within the 14th Circuit, discovering that Murdaugh can be unable to obtain a good and neutral trial in Colleton County, the place the unique trial occurred.
Alex Murdaugh seems in courtroom for a listening to, Aug. 14, 2026, on the Marc H. Westbrook Judicial Heart in Lexington, S.C.
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On Tuesday, she ordered that the retrial happen in Sumter County, discovering that it’s “finest suited to accommodate the wants of this case,” together with for Murdaugh to obtain a good trial.
Sumter County additionally “possesses the safety measures, courtroom services, technological capabilities, and supporting infrastructure essential to conduct these proceedings safely and effectively,” McCaslin wrote in her order issued Tuesday.
McCaslin has scheduled the retrial for April 5, 2027.
The South Carolina Supreme Courtroom overturned Murdaugh’s 2023 murder convictions earlier this yr — citing “surprising jury interference” by the courtroom clerk within the Colleton County trial.
Murdaugh stays in jail after pleading responsible to separate monetary crimes. He was sentenced to 27 years on state prices and 40 years on federal prices.
The disgraced lawyer admitted to stealing from his shoppers, although he has denied killing his spouse, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and youthful son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, who had been discovered useless from a number of gunshot wounds on the household’s searching property in 2021.
