COLUMBIA, S.C. — Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh will stand trial beginning in late January in the double slayings of his wife and youngest son.
The trial is expected to last three weeks, Jan. 30 through Feb. 17, according to a scheduling order issued Tuesday by state Judge Bentley Price, the administrative judge for Colleton County, where the trial will take place.
Judge Clifton Newman has been assigned to the case.