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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Alex Murdaugh trial: court clerk accused of plagiarism

Alex Mudaugh was in March convicted of killing his wife and son in South Carolina. Hill has been submerged in controversies since Murdaugh’s conviction.
Alex Murdaugh was in March convicted of killing his wife and son in South Carolina. Becky Hill has been submerged in controversies since the trial. Photograph: Andrew J Whitaker/AP

The court clerk who helped steer the murder trial of South Carolina’s Alex Murdaugh and has since been hit with accusations of jury-tampering – potentially leading to a retrial – is now embroiled in a plagiarism controversy.

Soon after the trial, in which Murdaugh was convicted of killing his wife and son near a dog kennel at their Low Country home, Becky Hill published a book named Behind the Doors of Justice: the Murdaugh Murders.

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