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The S.C. Attorney General’s 25-page filing refuting convicted killer Alex Murdaugh’s request for a new trial seethes with barely disguised indignation: “Never does the law permit highly motivated convicts to put their own jury on trial.”

Alex Murdaugh's defense team -- Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin -- asks for new trial in murder case, alleging jury tampering. AG Alan Wilson responds.

The clerk of court accused of tampering with the South Carolina jury that found Alex Murdaugh guilty of two counts of murder denied asking jurors if they thought he was guilty before deliberations or suggesting she thought he killed his wife and son. The sworn statement from Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill was filed Tuesday by prosecutors telling a judge there is no need to hold a hearing where jurors, Hill, other court employees and even the trial judge could be questioned under oat

The clerk of court accused of tampering with the South Carolina jury that found Alex Murdaugh guilty of murder has denied asking jurors if they thought he was guilty before deliberations.

The clerk of court accused of tampering with the South Carolina jury that found Alex Murdaugh guilty of two counts of murder denied asking jurors if they thought he was guilty before deliberations or suggesting she thought he killed his wife and son. The sworn statement from Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill was filed Tuesday by prosecutors telling a judge there is no need to hold a hearing where jurors, Hill, other court employees and even the trial judge could be questioned under oat

Alex Murdaugh’s legal team argued to the S.C. Supreme Court that the judge had expressed too many opinions about the disgraced former attorney’s guilt to rule fairly.

After filing the motion on Friday, Murdaugh's attorneys also filed to remove Judge Newman from the case Wednesday

Alex Murdaugh wants South Carolina's highest court to boot Judge Clifton Newman off all his cases, including his bid to overturn the guilty verdict in his double murder trial.

Filing: Murdaugh's "right to have his case heard by an impartial judge will be violated" if Newman remains on the case.

The Daily Beast/GettyAs Alex Murdaugh’s legal team pushes for a new murder trial, they have a bold request for the South Carolina Supreme Court: ban Judge Clifton Newman from having anything to do with the case.In a Wednesday filing, defense lawyers argued that Newman should be removed from future hearings related to Murdaugh’s double homicide case, claiming that the judge who presided over the murder trial cannot be impartial.The 256-page motion is the latest legal filing in defen...