Alex Murdaugh returned to court on Friday, October 16, after he was granted a retrial in his murder case, and the presiding judge warned both the defense and prosecution that the new trial is not allowed to “become a circus.” After the prosecutors and defense attorneys clashed over ballistics evidence and the testing of unknown male DNA that was found under Alex’s late wife Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails during the hearing, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Debra McCaslin issued a stern warning to both sides. “This has got to stop,” McCaslin said during the hearing in Lexin...
Judge in Alex Murdaugh Case Warns She Won’t Let Retrial ‘Become a Circus’
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Oct 17, 2026 • 50 minutes ago
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