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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nAlex Murdaugh, sentenced to life for killing his wife and son, has had his murder convictions overturned.\n\nThe disgraced lawyer won’t be leaving prison any time soon with prosecutors seeking an immediate retrial at the South Carolina Supreme Court.\n\nThe Murdaugh case became a true crime sensation because of the combination of money, power, Southern accents and treachery.\n\nMurdaugh, 57, will remain in prison. He pleaded guilty to stealing around $12 million from his clients and currently is serving a 40-year federal sentence.\n\nProsecutors said they would aggressively seek to try Murdaugh again on the murder charges with state Attorney General Alan Wilson saying he respected the court’s decision but no one is above the law.\n\nAlex Murdaugh was convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in June 2021\n(Credits: AP)\n\nAlex Murdaugh was sentenced to 27 years in prison for two dozen state financial crimes (Pictures: AP)\n\nMurdaugh’s lawyers pointed out that trial will look a lot different, as the justices also ruled days of evidence at the murder trial about how Murdaugh stole from clients, many of them in dire straights, shouldn’t be allowed next time.\n\nStill, the ruling is a win for Murdaugh, who admits to being a thief, liar, insurance cheat and bad lawyer, but has adamantly denied killing his wife Maggie and younger son Paul since he found their bodies outside their home in 2021.\n\n‘Alex has said from day one that he did not kill his wife and son. We look forward to a new trial,’ Murdaugh’s lawyers Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin said in a joint statement.\n\nAlex Murdaugh’s handcuffed are removed as he addresses the court during his sentencing for stealing from 18 clients (Picture: AP)\n\nInvestigators said Murdaugh was addicted to opioids and his complex schemes to steal money from clients and his family’s law firm were starting to unravel when he shot his younger son, Paul, with a shotgun and his wife, Maggie, with a rifle, at their home in Colleton County in 2021.\n\nMurdaugh told investigators he hadn’t seen them for an hour or so before he discovered their bodies, but his voice was recorded in a video on his son’s phone made about five minutes before the killing.\n\nThe weapons used in the killings have not been found and prosecutors did not present any clothes with DNA or blood evidence.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Alex Murdaugh has life term for killing wife and son overturned in shock twist"
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