Alex Murdaugh Retrial: Unknown DNA Under the Victim’s Nails Was Never Compared to Anyone

Lead defense counsel Dick Harpootlian stated publicly that the defense team has developed a strategy to counter the kennel video — the audio recording that placed Alex Murdaugh at the Moselle dog kennels minutes before the killings. Multiple witnesses identified the defendant’s voice on the recording during the first trial. The defendant subsequently admitted he had lied about his whereabouts. Harpootlian declined to disclose the nature of the defense strategy.

The prosecution faces a parallel challenge. The South Carolina Supreme Court’s opinion directed that financial crimes evidence be substantially curtailed, characterizing the original twelve-and-a-half-hour presentation as excessive and prejudicial. The defense has identified untested male DNA recovered from beneath Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails and has initiated a federal civil rights action against former court clerk Becky Hill.

Both sides are restructuring their cases from substantially different evidentiary positions than the first trial presented.

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