Murdaugh Defense Team Seeks Evidence on Police Involvement with Murder Weapons
Defense lawyers say they need grand jury materials and other records to test allegations that officers helped move weapons and bloody clothing after the killings.
- Alex Murdaugh's defense team is demanding state investigators release records regarding allegations that Yemassee police officers transported and concealed murder weapons and bloody clothing after the 2021 killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
- A state grand jury has been investigating claims since August that Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander and Assistant Police Chief Joe Loadholt handled evidence after the shootings, with former municipal judge Sheryl McKinney alleging Alexander admitted to being at the scene.
- Defense attorneys filed a motion on Sept. 30 stating they received no reports or memos concerning interviews with Alexander, Loadholt, or McKinney regarding the weapons; Alexander was subsequently subpoenaed by the state grand jury.
- Challenging the credibility of former State Law Enforcement Division investigator David Owen, the defense team is linking these allegations to his previous testimony and asking Judge Debra McCaslin to compel state disclosure.
- On October 16, Judge McCaslin will oversee a status hearing at the Lexington County Courthouse to address discovery requests, while Murdaugh, who maintains his innocence, faces a new trial in Sumter County in April of next year.
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Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers say prosecutors withheld claim police chief handled murder weapons
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Murdaugh lawyers allege prosecutors withheld witness claim that police chief handled murder weapons: filing - NEW YORK TIMES POST
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh accused prosecutors Wednesday of withholding a witness statement alleging a South Carolina police chief handled the weapons used to kill Murdaugh’s wife and son and arranged a change of clothes for him after the 2021 killings, asking a judge to intervene. Murdaugh was [...]
Murdaugh lawyers allege prosecutors withheld witness claim that police chief handled murder weapons: filing
Alex Murdaugh's attorneys accuse prosecutors of withholding a witness statement alleging a South Carolina police chief handled the murder weapons used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
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Lodinews.comWas there a cover-up in the Murdaugh murder case? Defense attorneys want to know
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh want a judge to require prosecutors in his double murder case to disclose information about a purported state investigation into whether Low Country law officers disposed of weapons and bloody clothing on the night Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
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