South Carolina Prosecutors Reject Murdaugh Evidence Claim, Citing 40 Pages of Emails
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 7
South Carolina Prosecutors Reject Murdaugh Evidence Claim, Citing 40 Pages of Emails
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 7
Summary
40 pages of emails, file screenshots and signed receipts filed Tuesday show prosecutors say Alex Murdaugh’s defense received the disputed cellphone extraction data multiple times before his first murder trial.
October and November 2022 records show SLED gave defense experts full unredacted raw extractions, password logs, keychain files and reports, while a corrupted August 2022 download was recently recreated from copied data.
Jan. 20, 2023 emails — three days before jury selection — show the defense asked for a duplicate of Murdaugh’s phone extraction after misplacing the original, undercutting its September claim that key files were withheld.
Murdaugh, convicted in March 2023 and given two life terms for the 2021 killings of his wife Maggie and son Paul, won a new trial after the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the verdict in May 2026 over jury influence by a court clerk.
Judge Debra McCaslin is weighing the discovery dispute ahead of Murdaugh’s retrial, which is scheduled for April 2027.