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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jeffrey Collins

Alex Murdaugh murder trial judge steps aside after Murdaugh asks for new trial

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The judge that presided over Alex Murdaugh's murder trial has agreed to step aside as the former lawyer convicted of killing his wife and younger son requests a new trial, citing alleged jury tampering, the South Carolina Supreme Court said Thursday.

But the justices refused a request from defense lawyers to remove Judge Clifton Newman from Murdaugh's state trial on financial crime charges and to delay the trial, set to begin Nov. 27.

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