Attorneys for accused killer/ disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion asking the presiding judge in this high-profile double homicide case to exclude “false testimony” which it claims was “intentionally withheld” from defense counsel.
The voluminous 96-page filing actually goes further than that – asking S.C. circuit court judge Clifton Newman to prohibit prosecutors in the office of S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson from “presenting manipulated opinion testimony contradicted by exculpatory evidence that the state has destroyed in bad faith.”
Wow … manipulated testimony? Evidence destroyed in bad faith?
Is any of this true?
“You can claim anything in a motion trying to defend a client,” a source close to the investigation told me in response to the filing. “Doesn’t make it true. If that’s his position, that’s his position.”
The motion (.pdf) was submitted on Murdaugh’s behalf by his attorneys, state senator Dick Harpootlian and veteran Columbia, S.C. trial lawyer Jim Griffin. It was filed in Colleton County at 12:02 p.m. EST on Wednesday (November 23, 2022) – just as most of the state was either traveling or preparing to host Thanksgiving gatherings.
The detailed motion represents the latest thrust from Harpootlian and Griffin – who are no strangers to dropping bombshells in their bid to get Murdaugh off on the two murder raps he is currently staring down.
To recap: Sometime after 8:44 p.m. EDT on June 7, 2021, state prosecutors say Murdaugh...
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