A judge will sentence disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh on murder and other charges, less than 24 hours after a jury found Murdaugh guilty in the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Alex Murdaugh, center, is led out of Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies after being convicted Thursday, in Walterboro, S.C. Murdaugh was found guilty on two counts of murder in the shooting deaths in June 2021 of his wife and son.Alex Murdaugh, center, is led out of Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies after being convicted Thursday, in Walterboro, S.C. Murdaugh was found guilty on two counts of murder in the shooting deaths in June 2021 of his wife and son.
The court session will begin at 9:30 a.m. ET. Newman will render his sentence after any victim impact statements are taken into account.After a trial that spanned 28 days, it took a Colleton County jury only a few hours to agree unanimously that Murdaugh is guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of using a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
The sentencing closes a six-week-long trial that charted Murdaugh's fall from grace. Murdaugh, who was born into power and privilege as the scion of a prominent family of lawyers and prosecutors, has been disbarred. He also faces dozens of other criminal charges over financial crimes — some of which he admitted to during his murder trial.
Prosecutors said Murdaugh killed his wife and son to serve his own ends, after siphoning millions of dollars away from his colleagues and clients. He was facing a financial reckoning, they said, that also included his liability in a court case over a fatal 2019 boating accident in which Paul, then 19, was said to be driving.
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