Attorneys for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh are asking South Carolina's highest court to prevent the judge who presided over his murder trial from playing a role in the next phase of Murdaugh's legal odyssey.
Lawyers for the disbarred attorney want to block Judge Clifton Newman from hearing Murdaugh's request for a new trial. They also want the state Supreme Court to remove Newman from an upcoming case prosecuting Murdaugh over a string of financial crimes that prosecutors say he committed as his life spiraled out of control in the years before he killed his wife and son.
