COLUMBIA, S.C. — Defense attorneys for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion to compel the state to turn over material that would shed light on why an expert witness changed his opinion on the presence of blood from “high-velocity impact spatter” on a shirt worn by Murdaugh the night of the killings.
Attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin have alleged that investigators for the state pressured their outside expert into changing his analysis.
The motion for discovery asks that prosecutors be ordered to produce “all communications to or from Tom Bevel,” the state’s blood pattern analysis expert. They have also asked for “all Photoshop Document files related to photographs of the white T-shirt Mr. Murdaugh was wearing the night his wife, Maggie, and son Paul were murdered, which Mr. Bevel asserts are his basis for changing his opinion.”
