WALTERBORO, S.C. — A South Carolina judge on Friday granted a motion from Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys to compel the state to turn over communications and underlying files that led an expert witness to say Murdaugh’s shirt was covered in blood from his son’s gunshot wound.
“We need that information in order to say whether or not that’s voodoo science,” Dick Harpootlian, Murdaugh’s attorney, told the court Friday.
Harpootlian argued that the defense needs the documents and an opportunity to interview the state’s expert witness Tom Bevel and agents with the State Law Enforcement Division under oath before making a decision on whether to file a motion excluding the T-shirt from evidence in the upcoming murder trial.
