South Carolina: Murdaugh murder convictions overturned

The state supreme court 5-0 overturned it.

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the trial was marred by jury tampering at the hands of the court clerk Becky Hill.

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In the 5-0 ruling, the justices issued a scathing reprimand of Hill, writing that she 'egregiously attacked Murdaugh's credibility' throughout the March 2023 trial.

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His fight for a retrial was chiefly based on allegations that Hill, the Colleton County Clerk of Court during his high-profile trial, tampered with the jury.

Hill, who was in charge of managing the jury and read out the guilty verdict to the court, pleaded guilty in December to four charges connected to the case: obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct in office.

The 58-year-old admitted to showing sealed court exhibits including graphic crime scene photos to a reporter during the trial and then lying about it. She also admitted to taking bonuses and promoting a tell-all book about the trial through her public office.

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Prosecutors had investigated allegations of jury tampering against Hill after three jurors or alternates claimed she may have been trying to influence them, but found there was not the evidence to prove charges.

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May have been? not the evidence?

Did that have any effect on the evidence against him?