Alex Murdaugh murder case gets new judge as retrial looms following Supreme Court reversal

A South Carolina justice has been assigned to instrumentality implicit Alex Murdaugh’s blockbuster execution lawsuit aft the disgraced ineligible scion’s convictions successful the slayings of his woman and lad were overturned.

South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice John W. Kittredge signed an bid Monday giving Judge Debra R. McCaslin jurisdiction implicit each proceedings tied to Murdaugh’s murder-case indictments.

The bid gives McCaslin authorization implicit "any aboriginal retrial connected the execution charges" arsenic good arsenic motions, assemblage trials, civilian forfeiture actions and different related matters successful the case.

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Disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh arrives astatine a tribunal proceeding successful Beaufort, S.C., connected Sept. 14, 2023, regarding alleged fiscal crimes. (James Pollard/AP Photo)

The little bid does not acceptable a caller proceedings day oregon regularisation connected immoderate outstanding motions. Instead, it puts McCaslin successful complaint of the adjacent signifier of the case.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson's bureau said: "As always, we look guardant to presenting the State's lawsuit successful tribunal arsenic portion of a fair, open, and transparent process."

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About Judge Debra R. McCaslin

McCaslin, an at-large circuit tribunal judge, was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly connected Feb. 5, 2020, according to the South Carolina Judicial Branch.

She earned her instrumentality grade from the University of South Carolina School of Law successful 1993 and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar that year. The Judicial Branch says she was besides admitted to the U.S. District Court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Judge McCaslin was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly to the Circuit Court, At-Large Seat-13 connected February 5, 2020. (South Carolina Judicial Branch)

Murdaugh, 57, was convicted successful March 2023 of murdering his wife, Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, astatine the family’s sprawling hunting property successful Colleton County successful June 2021.

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He was sentenced to beingness successful prison, but his lawyers aboriginal pushed for a caller trial, arguing that the assemblage had been improperly influenced by erstwhile Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill.

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The South Carolina Supreme Court reversed the denial of Murdaugh’s new-trial question connected May 13 and sent the lawsuit backmost to the circuit court.

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Alex Murdaugh awaits the commencement of his enslaved proceeding astatine the Richland Judicial Center successful Columbia, S.C., connected Oct. 19, 2021. He was indicted connected Nov. 19 connected 27 further charges related to fiscal crimes involving astir $5 cardinal successful stolen colony wealth and instrumentality steadfast fees. (Lewis M. Levine/AP)

Murdaugh, a once-prominent Hampton County lawyer from a almighty ineligible dynasty, has repeatedly denied sidesplitting Maggie and Paul.

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The brace were recovered changeable to decease adjacent the canine kennels astatine the family’s Moselle estate, a sprawling spot successful South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

A household photograph of Buster, Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh is shown during the execution proceedings of Alex Murdaugh astatine the Colleton County Courthouse successful Walterboro connected March 2, 2023. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post and Courier)

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Prosecutors argued Murdaugh killed his woman and lad to distract from his crumbling ineligible and fiscal satellite arsenic years of thefts and lies were closing successful connected him.

His defence squad insisted helium was a loving hubby and begetter who had been wrongfully accused aft investigators zeroed successful connected him excessively quickly.

Although Murdaugh’s execution convictions were overturned, helium remains down bars connected abstracted financial-crime convictions aft admitting helium stole from clients and his erstwhile instrumentality firm.

Alex Murdaugh is led retired of the Colleton County courthouse successful a tan situation jumpsuit aft receiving a treble beingness condemnation connected March 3, 2023, pursuing his condemnation for the 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital)

Prosecutors person said they mean to retry him connected the execution charges.