Alex Murdaugh Murder Trial: Snapchat Rep Will Testify – People

More than 17 months since the brutal slayings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh at their sprawling South Carolina hunting lodge, the trial of once-prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh began Monday with jury selection. In July 2022, Murdaugh, 54, was charged with two counts of murder two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection with the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22. The disgraced lawyer was already being held in jail on a host of financial charges that also got him disbarred. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Alex Murdaugh. Tracy Glantz/The State via AP Finding impartial jurors in South Carolina Lowcountry will be challenging since the murders received worldwide coverage in newspapers, digital stories, true crime shows, podcasts and documentaries. Prospective jurors must also have no ties to the Murdaugh family, who are well-known in Colleton County, where the trial will be held. Murdaugh is a scion of a powerful legal family in the rural county. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were elected prosecutors for generations. His family also founded a prominent law firm that has now been disbanded and
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