Alex Murdaugh's lawyers withdraw request for civilian clothes, accuse prosecutors of creating a 'spectacle'

Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers accidental prosecutors are trying to crook his adjacent courtroom quality into a spectacle.

The convicted erstwhile Lowcountry lawyer had asked to look unshackled and successful civilian apparel astatine proceedings and successful televised pretrial hearings arsenic helium awaits a caller execution proceedings successful the killings of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.

But aft prosecutors accused him of seeking peculiar treatment, Murdaugh’s defence squad withdrew the request, saying they would not discarded tribunal clip arguing implicit "the optics" of a presumption conference.

"If the State wants to usage that for a nationalist spectacle, truthful beryllium it," the defence wrote. "Mr. Murdaugh volition not discarded the Court’s clip astatine the upcoming presumption league arguing astir the optics."

"Mr. Murdaugh volition not discarded the Court’s clip astatine the upcoming presumption league arguing astir the optics."

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Alex Murdaugh is recovered blameworthy connected each counts of the execution of his woman and lad astatine the Colleton County Courthouse successful Walterboro, S.C., connected March 2, 2023. (Joshua Boucher/Pool)

South Carolina prosecutors had urged a Colleton County justice to contradict the motion, arguing that Murdaugh’s fame does not entitle him to beryllium treated otherwise from different inmates.

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Murdaugh remains successful authorities custody connected financial-crime convictions and is serving a 27-year sentence, prosecutors said. He is besides serving a concurrent 40-year national condemnation tied to akin crimes.

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His execution convictions were reversed successful May by the South Carolina Supreme Court, which ordered caller proceedings aft uncovering improper interference  by the erstwhile Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca "Becky" Hill.

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But the authorities said the reversal does not alteration Murdaugh’s presumption arsenic an inmate oregon the information concerns surrounding him.

"SCDC’s signifier and presumption present is that immoderate inmate should stay successful restraints and successful azygous for tribunal appearances," prosecutors wrote, adding that Murdaugh’s agelong sentence, the seriousness of the execution charges and his notoriety each heighten information concerns.

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Alex Murdaugh, convicted of sidesplitting his woman and lad successful June 2021, greets his defence lawyer Jim Griffin earlier a retrial proceeding astatine the Richland County Judicial Center successful Columbia, S.C., connected Jan. 16, 2024. (Gavin McIntyre/The Post and Courier via AP)

The authorities besides pointed to past custody issues, alleging that during the archetypal trial, a household subordinate passed Murdaugh a publication done a defence staffer without instrumentality enforcement’s knowledge.

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Prosecutors said the publication was aboriginal recovered successful his compartment and led to a jailhouse contraband warrant. They besides cited 2 situation disciplinary actions from August 2023, including maltreatment of privileges and unauthorized usage of different inmate’s PIN.

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"This lawsuit is yet astir the information that Defendant thinks helium is special. He is not," prosecutors wrote.

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Alex Murdaugh touches the backmost of his caput during a jury-tampering proceeding astatine the Richland County Judicial Center successful Columbia, S.C., connected Jan. 29, 2024. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier)

Murdaugh’s lawyers fired back, accusing prosecutors of "histrionics" and arguing that the authorities had failed to amusement immoderate peculiar request to show him successful shackles earlier imaginable jurors.

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They said Murdaugh has ne'er threatened oregon attempted flight oregon unit portion successful custody and has appeared astatine galore hearings and done a six-week proceedings without disruptive behavior.

The defence besides argued that courts admit the information of showing defendants successful restraints, adjacent extracurricular a jury’s carnal presence, erstwhile cameras could broadcast the representation to aboriginal jurors.

To marque the point, Murdaugh’s lawyers cited the lawsuit against Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, saying the justice determination ordered cameras repositioned aft reports Robinson had been shown successful shackles and warned they could beryllium excluded if it happened again.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson looks implicit to Alex Murdaugh arsenic authoritative Creighton Waters makes closing arguments astatine the Colleton County Courthouse connected March 1, 2023. (Joshua Boucher/The State/Pool)

The defence accused prosecutors of relying connected rhetoric alternatively than law, penning that the lawsuit is not astir whether Murdaugh "thinks" helium is special, but whether the authorities tin beryllium the execution charges against him.

Still, Murdaugh’s lawyers withdrew the motion, saying they did not privation to distract from much substantive issues up of retrial, including motions involving chartless DNA from the transgression scene, entree to lawsuit materials and a imaginable venue change.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the prosecutor's bureau arsenic good arsenic Murdaugh's defence team.