Book-writing Murdaugh murders clerk submits sworn affidavit denying ‘serious’ jury tampering claims as prosecutors highlight bizarre details to combat new trial bid

Alex Murdaugh, Becky Hill

Alex Murdaugh awaits his verdict, Colleton County Court Clerk Rebecca “Becky” Hill reads the verdict sealing Murdaugh’s fate on March 2, 2023 (Law&Crime Network)

After convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh’s defense lawyers raised “serious allegations pertaining to improper jury communications by the Clerk of Court” in their bid for a new trial and a “full blown evidentiary hearing,” prosecutors responded by saying that the defense has “failed to make the prima facie showing necessary to justify so much as an evidentiary hearing, let alone a new trial.”

The filing from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and his office — dated Nov. 6, filed and stamped Nov. 7 — included a sworn affidavit from Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca “Becky” Hill and voluntary statements from jurors, statements that the jurors signed as “true and correct” accounts.

The prosecutors who secured Alex Murdaugh’s March convictions in the June 7, 2021 murders of his wife Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and son Paul Murdaugh, 22, rejected claims that defense attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin made about Hill improperly gunning to have “Juror 785” removed from the case through a made-up Facebook post. Significantly, the state has moved to strike from the new trial motion “All Such Material As Regards Murdaugh’s Claims Regarding the Facebook Post(s), Book Deal, and Post-Trial Media Interactions as Immaterial, Impertinent, and Scandalous.”

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