Alex Murdaugh.Photo: Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock
One week afterAlex Murdaugh was convictedof murdering his wife and son, his lawyers announced they are appealing the conviction as well as his prison sentences.
Murdaugh’s defense attorney Dick Harpootlian announced on Twitter on Thursday that he and Jim Griffin have filed a notice of appeal.
“This is the next step in the legal process to fight for Alex’s constitutional right to a fair trial,” his tweet reads, in part.
“No amount of vitriol or misguided attacks will stop us from pursuing due process for Alex to the fullest extent of the law,” Harpootlian continued in a follow-up tweet.
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Harpootlian — who is also a member of the South Carolina Senate —tweeted on Wednesdaythat he looked forward to working with Griffin during the appeals process and wrote: “To the naysayers-you have a misunderstanding of our justice system, I suggest you read the Constitution.”
On March 2,Murdaughwas found guilty of fatally shooting his wife Maggie and son Paul in 2021 after a lengthy trial that was chock-full of eyebrow-raising moments.
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During the trial, a bomb threat interrupted proceedings, prosecutors played a video from Paul’s phone that placed Murdaugh at the murder scene on the night of the killings, Murdaugh admitted on the stand to lying to authorities about his whereabouts that night and his surviving son Buster took the stand in his father’s defense.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Murdaugh.
Moments before sentencing Murdaugh,Judge Newmanwho oversaw the trial, addressed the convicted murderer, saying, “I know you have to see Paul and Maggie during the nighttime when you’re attempting to go to sleep. I’m sure they come and visit you.”
source: people.com
