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Prominent south carolina attorney

Convicted of killing his wife and son wants a new trial.

Today jim griffin and I filed a petition

Based on newly discovered evidence

With the south carolina court of appeals

To stay alex murdaugh's appeal while a hearing is held

On a motion for a new trial.

Dana kennedy: This came as a total shock

To me and to a lot of people who have covered this trial.

Jim griffin: What we had filed today,

Supported by sworn testimony of jurors,

Is that the clerk of court had improper private communications

With the jurors.

Rebecca hill: I think another thing

That the jury was turned off with

Was when alex decided to become a witness.

The right to a jury trial is a fundamental principle

Of our justice system.

If half of what's in that affidavit is true,

The prosecution has a problem.

Eric bland: I think the allegations are serious.

I will tell you that our jury, in speaking with them

And being part of my job as being switzerland,

I have to keep a lot of confidential things inside.

She has a right to talk with the jury.

She has a right to calm jurors down.

I'm very optimistic that, ultimately, we

Will get a new trial.

I'm martha maccallum.

And this is "the murdaugh trial, the clerk in question."

Six months after the guilty verdict in the trial

Of the century, alex murdaugh's defense team

Is now asking for a new trial, accusing the clerk of court

Of tampering with the jury.

But the south carolina attorney general says investigators have

Found, quote, "significant factual disputes

With those claims."

And alan wilson concedes that a hearing may be needed to decide

If convicted killer alex murdaugh

Will get an entirely new trial.

So who is rebecca hill, the colleton county clerk of court

At the center of this new murdaugh legal drama?

The state of south carolina county of colleton in the court

Of general sessions in the term of 2022, July,

The state versus richard alexander murdaugh,

Defendant, indictment for murder, sc code 16-3-0010,

Cdr code 0116--

--Ok.

Guilty verdict.

Martha maccallum: March 2, 2023, the world watched

As clerk rebecca hill read the verdict

In the murdaugh murder trial.

After six weeks of testimony, it took the 12-person jury

Less than three hours on a Thursday night

To come back with their verdict.

The disgraced south carolina attorney alex murdaugh

Was found guilty in the brutal, cold-blood murders of his wife

Maggie and his son paul.

Murdaugh was sentenced to two life

Sentences in a maximum security prison

In mccormick, south carolina.

Now there are serious questions that

Have been raised about the role of the clerk of court

In that decision.

Dana kennedy: September 5 was an absolute bombshell.

I think we all thought we were done with the murdaugh case.

Attorneys for convicted murderer alex murdaugh say they

Have new evidence that shows jury

Tampering by colleton county court clerk rebecca hill.

Today jim griffin and I filed a petition

Based on newly discovered evidence

With the south carolina court of appeals

To stay alex murdaugh's appeal.

Jim griffin: What we had filed today,

Supported by sworn testimony of jurors,

Is that the clerk of court had improper private communications

With the jurors.

And the subject matter--

The subject matter of those communications

Was the credibility of the defense

That the murdaugh legal defense team put up

And it was the believability of the defendant's own testimony.

Did you love paul?

Did I love him?

Like no other, he and buster.

Jim griffin: Did you love maggie?

More than anything.

Jim griffin: Did you kill maggie?

No, I did not kill maggie.

I did not kill paul.

Reported to us by the jurors that the clerk of court

Would go in to the sanctity of the jury room

Before he testified and tell the jurors,

Don't be fooled by his testimony.

Watch out for his body language.

And if that is true, which we have every reason to believe

That it is and no reason to believe that it's not,

There is no choice but to courts to grant a new trial.

Martha maccallum: In the days and weeks that

Followed the trial, the defense began

Hearing of jury tampering.

Initially, they could not get to the root of those rumors,

Until some new evidence came to light.

Jim griffin: So immediately in the aftermath of the verdict,

We had received information that we needed to look into what

Happened in the jury room.

We started down that road, and we met a zone of silence.

And then, when the clerk of court wrote her book,

Published her book, that zone of silence collapsed,

And jurors were upset about that, the ones we talked with.

And they were more than willing to come forward and tell us

The things that we had sort of heard

Through a whisper campaign.

Dana kennedy: If half of what's in that affidavit is true,

The prosecution has a problem.

I think the allegations are serious.

I think when you become a public official, unfortunately,

You open yourself up to that kind of scrutiny.

I think it's been unfair that she's been tarred and feathered

So quickly by harpootlian and the defense

In such a public fashion.

And I'm confident that there's going to be a different side

Of the story that we're going to hear when

This goes to a new hearing.

Neil gordon: I was shocked.

That's not the becky that I know.

The becky that I know holds the oath of office

Very closely to her.

She believes in her oath of office.

And she's just a very credible person with a lot of integrity.

Martha maccallum: We first spoke with rebecca "becky"

Hill for our fox nation series "the fall

Of the house of murdaugh."

She sat down for an extensive interview

And shared her personal insights on the case,

The trial, and even the jury.

My name is rebecca hill, and I am the clerk

Of court for colleton county.

I'm the one that read the verdict for the guilty verdict

Of alex murdaugh.

And I was a little--

My breath was knocked out for a moment.

But then I have to tell myself to treat this just

Like any other trial, any other verdict that I have to read,

And I have to place my mind there and take out

Any other personal relationships.

Martha maccallum: The 55-year-old hill

Has strong ties to the lowcountry in south carolina.

Neil gordon: Family is everything

To becky and her husband.

She got started becoming a school teacher

And then got interested in the law

And worked for several years in lawyers' offices.

And then she got a wonderful job as a traveling court

Reporter in the 14th circuit, right

There where walterboro is.

And she did that for 14 years.

And then she was encouraged to run for office by another clerk

Of court in hampton county.

I am pleased to announce that I will be seeking

Election for the 2020 position of the colleton

County clerk of court.

Neil gordon: And she won in a landslide.

And she's been the clerk of court since November of 2020.

Martha maccallum: Hill took office just six months

Before maggie and paul murdaugh were murdered

At their colleton county home.

I heard about the murders of alex's

Wife and son that very night that it happened, June 7, 2021.

I was home, and I had gotten a phone call from a very dear

Friend in hampton who told me, alarmingly, that alex's

Wife and son had been murdered.

And immediately, our conversation went

To who could have done this.

I hope they find this person.

We felt very, very close to the situation just

Because of the murdaugh family, and we

Wanted justice to be done.

Martha maccallum: In fact, the murdaugh murders

Were close to home for hill.

Her prior work in the court system

Meant she was often in contact with two of the most prominent

Attorneys in the lowcountry, alex murdaugh

And his late father, randolph.

I would say that to know them was to love them,

Very charming.

They made you feel immediately like family when they met you.

Neil gordon: We do discuss the connection in the book

Because that was part of the struggle that becky had.

Being a clerk of court in this trial that

Was seen all over the world, she did

Have a personal relationship.

Being a court reporter from 2008 until 2020

Gave us a lot of opportunities to be in court together.

Whenever alex would come into the courtroom, you knew it.

It was like a whirlwind.

He brought a lot of energy with him, a lot of charm.

He most usually was accompanied by his father

Whenever he would come into the courtroom.

And there was a lot of banter that would go on.

I was able to be in a trial several times

With alex and his father and just

Such a good rapport with them.

She actually credits the murdaugh men who were attorneys

In helping her come out of her shell a little bit,

Particularly when you have a jury pool in front of you

Where you have to kind of lead the conversation

To determine which jurors may get eliminated.

So she credited alex murdaugh and particularly alex's father,

Randolph, for their courtroom demeanor,

Just how they were able to navigate

Through opening and closing arguments

And how they worked with the jurors.

Rebecca hill: I've always compared

The murdaughs here in hampton to the kennedys of our time.

Because like the kennedys, the murdaughs

Have experienced so many tragedies within their family.

I was the first out-of-state reporter

To go to south carolina.

I was there a week after the two murders.

And I did kind of a whole investigation of the situation,

Of the place, of the people.

I knew nothing about it, and nobody really

Did outside of south carolina.

Becky hill, as far as my interactions with her

And what I know of her, is that she's

Sort of the quintessential, sweet, southern older woman.

They call her ms. Becky or mrs. Becky,

Which is traditional down there.

And she was a friend to all the media during the trial, which

At the time seemed really nice.

It seemed to be really helpful.

Eric bland: She is a very nice woman.

She runs a really good courthouse.

She was extremely personable through the trial.

And in my interactions with jurors,

I've come to learn that she was extremely

Cooperative with the jurors and making sure

That they were comfortable.

Martha maccallum: But murdaugh's attorneys

Claim that ms. Becky took her new position as court clerk

Too far.

Two jurors reportedly signed affidavits

Saying becky hill overstepped her role

And tried to influence their opinions and decisions.

Jim griffin: The legal test is, is the subject matter

Prejudicial to the defense?

When the subject matter is and is reported under oath

By these jurors, it was a direction

On how you should receive alex murdaugh's testimony.

You should look at him.

Don't be fooled by him.

He would get all his buddies and get on a boat

And go watch a sunset.

Any 22-year-old people, you know, do stuff like that.

I mean, he was such a special boy.

And I think another thing that the jury was turned off with

Was when alex decided to become a witness.

They were very turned off with that.

It did not go the way I think alex

Would have wanted it to go.

We strongly believe, if that evidence is accurate,

And the law will require a new trial.

Dana kennedy: I can't imagine that anybody thought that she

Would end up being such a pivotal figure

After everything we thought was wrapped up.

The trial of richard alexander murdaugh

Was a huge trial for our county.

For our part of the world, it was the trial of the century.

It was even bigger than oj.

It was bigger than susan smith.

Dana kennedy: It's like they'd won the lottery, this town.

And I think everybody got a little corrupted.

Because back in the beginning, they all loved alex murdaugh.

And, you know, ms. Becky said things like, there

Was such charm that he had.

It's amazing how fast people turned on him even

Before he was found guilty.

Rebecca hill: Sadly, I do think that alex killed his wife

Maggie and his son paul.

I think he did it out of a twisted way of love.

I don't think we can wrap our heads around that thought

Or that fact.

Eric bland: The murdaugh story had been going on since 2019,

Since the boating accident.

We all have reached certain conclusions along the way

About alex murdaugh, certainly after labor day

And the roadside shooting, certainly

When I came on board on September 7, 2021

And revealed that they had taken $4.3 million

From the satterfields.

And then that unleashed the floodgates for all

Of the financial crimes.

So there's been a lot of things that have happened

To make people believe one way or the other about alex

Murdaugh.

He was pilloried in the press so that people came

In with preconceived notions.

She doesn't have to be free of opinion regarding his guilt

Or innocence, but she can't let that guilt

Infiltrate picking a jury.

As the clerk of court, I tend to be more like a switzerland

In dealing with everyone.

I take no sides.

And I have to be accommodating to everyone in the courtroom,

No matter what side you're on, from the jury to the judge

To the witnesses to the people in the gallery that

Come to the prosecution to the media that was here.

It was a lot to juggle.

It's a very important job, and she

Is the liaison between the legal community and that courthouse.

She's also the liaison between the public in that courthouse.

And she's the liaison between judge newman and that jury.

Look, I've been doing this almost 50 years.

The bedrock of any trial-- and I've done hundreds of them--

Is that the clerk of court is the person that makes

Sure the jury gets their food, if they're put up

For the night someplace to stay, their travel accommodations

Are met.

They're not someone that ever should

Talk to them about the case.

I've never had it happen.

Rebecca hill: I will tell you that our jury, in speaking

With them and being part of my job as being switzerland,

I have to keep a lot of confidential things inside.

Our jurors knew that part of their job

Was to perceive the defendant as being

Innocent until proven guilty, and they

Took that job very seriously.

They knew that they had to hear all of the evidence

Before they could make a determination.

But I do know that that's one thing

That they were-- they were very passionate about what

They were doing.

They took it very seriously.

And they could perceive the things

That were being shown to them and talked to them about.

Well, she talks in an interview about seemingly

How well she knew the jurors, how smart they were, how they

Could grasp things right away, which goes a little

Against her proclamation that she was

Kind of like switzerland and neutral because so much

Else of what she says and that she has in her book

Sounds as if she wasn't neutral at all, that she believed

Murdaugh was guilty, and that perhaps

She felt that the jurors should think that too.

I asked her several times during our interviews

About conversations that she had with many different people,

Whether it be somebody on her staff,

If she ever got into a conversation

With alex, because there were greetings at the beginning

Of the day.

I was just curious.

And I never got an inkling that she

Had any improper conversations with the jury.

We had a lot of stuff go on during the trial that

Was behind the scenes that, you know,

The public wouldn't really know about.

Jim griffin: What you saw in some of the affidavits

Is the jurors were separated in two rooms

And sort of broke up from guys in one room,

Gals in another room.

And so the comments that we've gotten on the sworn affidavits

Come from the ladies' room, if you will,

More so than the men's room.

But, you know, we do have information that we submitted

From one juror where he does acknowledge that she talked

To him about evidence, about autopsy photos,

And don't be upset about them.

I mean, that should not be happening.

She has a right to talk with the jury.

She has a right to calm jurors down.

She has a right to maybe even repeat the things

That were said by judge newman.

He's the only one, by the way, that can instruct a jury

And direct a jury.

She cannot do that.

Jim griffin: One thing we want everyone to understand,

That the clerk of court is an elected official by the people,

Not appointed by the judge, not appointed by the judiciary.

It's a public official who's elected and is

An independent state actor.

And so what we are complaining about in the motion

That we filed today is the conduct of an elected official,

Not conduct by judge newman or anybody

In the unified court system.

Martha maccallum: The defense says it was becky hill's

New book about the trial that makes her interference clear,

In her own words they claim.

We were hitting brick walls until her book came out.

And then jurors who obviously were not comfortable with how

She handled matters were even less comfortable

With her going on a book tour and making

Money off what she did.

From the trial itself, I am able to write a book,

Focusing on what happened behind the scenes of the trial from

The beginning, when we started planning,

When we first heard that the trial was going to be

Fast-tracked and was going to be happening in January,

To the ending of the trial.

And it's going to focus on so many aspects of the trial

And things people didn't know, which

Occurred behind the scenes.

The title is "behind the doors of justice."

The story that she tells is not

Accurate in our opinion, at least the facts as we saw them.

Dana kennedy: It does have some validity, the idea

That her motivation might have been money and fame.

Because she does have a book out in which

She does talk with sort of great pride about herself.

She talks about being the queen of the courthouse

And all of that.

So it's something to think about.

I'm neil gordon, and I'm the co-author of "behind the doors

Of justice" with becky hill, the colleton county clerk of court.

When I saw the press conference and they used "behind the doors

Of justice" as some sort of motivation

Why becky would allegedly tamper with the jury,

I just thought that must have been a joke because I'm waiting

On my big check from some publishing company

On madison avenue in new york.

When we got together, I don't mind sharing with you,

I borrowed money to produce this book,

And they borrowed against, I think, some 401

Or what have you just to be able to tell this story,

This snapshot in history.

So we risked money.

And it wasn't decided--

I didn't even meet her until three weeks

After the end of the trial.

So it doesn't add up.

When becky and I first chatted about the book,

She just told me she wanted to share what it was

Like behind the doors of justice, how the sausage got

Made, if you will.

She also takes her role as clerk of court very seriously.

And she got the impression from being in the trenches

That people didn't really know what the role

Of the clerk of court is.

So in our book "behind the doors of justice,"

We took a lot of time to explain the different intricate duties

That she has.

And she wanted to let everybody in on understanding what it

Was like to be part of the trial of the century

In a different way.

If anyone is going to speculate about becky hill's

Motives, she's clear in her own book

That she had decided to write a book--

And she called it a god thing--

Prior to the verdict.

And having a conviction this speedy, which makes it look

Like this is done and dusted, there's no question he did it,

Jury comes back in no time, again,

Is so good for a book about a murder trial.

Martha maccallum: But hill's co-author

Insists they went through the proper legal channels

Before going to print.

It was sent off to a media attorney,

Pretty noted media attorney from the southeast, who took a look

At it with a red pen and suggested certain things that

Should be clarified and certain things maybe that we

Should leave out, et cetera.

So we were pretty careful, I would say,

In the way that we went about publishing.

Martha maccallum: The defense also

Points to several key moments in the trial

That call into question becky hill's motives.

First is March 2, when the so-called "egg

Lady" juror was removed just hours

Before deliberations began.

A few days ago, I received a complaint from a member

Of the public indicating that a juror had engaged

In improper conversations with parties

Not associated with the case.

In order to preserve the integrity of the process

And the interests of both the state and the defense

In a fair trial, that juror will be removed

And replaced by another juror.

Have you brought everything that you have outside of--

You left some stuff in there?

What do you have in there?

Say again.

A dozen eggs?

Jim griffin: What you see in the sworn

Testimony that's in file--

Been filed today is ms. Hill told

The court that there was a facebook post

By this juror's ex-husband.

Dana kennedy: Becky hill apparently

Saw this facebook post, which we still don't even know ever

Existed, and told the judge about it.

But since then, it gets really complicated because the person

She named as being the author of this facebook post

With a timothy stone.

"egg lady" juror's husband is tim stone.

He doesn't go by timothy.

And that timothy stone on facebook's face

Is not even her tim stone.

So it gets really complicated.

And again, she wasn't in touch with him.

She had restraining orders against him.

So it really seems kind of nuts that he

Would have a post there.

Jim griffin: The ex-husband has filed an affidavit saying I've

Never posted a facebook post.

Ms. Hill and her office says, he must have deleted it.

We can't find it.

And what we do know, and we laid it out in detail in our brief,

Is that the apology facebook post was posted,

I think, on February 16 and said,

We had deleted it the day before, February 15.

Ms. Hill is telling judge newman on February 23

That I just saw this facebook post--

Impossible, impossible.

Dana kennedy: And in fact, the defense attorneys

Have done a forensic deep dive on his facebook, on his laptop.

He did not make any facebook post that anyone can see,

According to them.

We also have in their sworn testimony that ms.

Hill told this juror that sled went

Out and confirmed with your ex-husband

That he posted that--

Not true, according to the sworn testimony.

Martha maccallum: But becky hill gave us this explanation

Of why the juror was removed.

Was released from the jury because of talking to people

That she should not have been talking to and the speculation

That her ex-husband could have been contacted

By someone on the defense team.

Her ex-husband and her had not conversed in over 14 years.

In fact, when they divorced, she had three

Restraining orders out on him.

And he wasn't someone that she wanted

To come into contact with.

But through her interaction with people,

The judge felt that-- and in talking with the attorneys too,

That it was going to be safer for her to be released.

Martha maccallum: Murdaugh's team

Says she invented the post to remove the juror she believed

Might vote not guilty.

There is another real amateur hour aspect to this.

Because it's come out that the court clerk, becky hill,

Was questioning the "egg lady" juror in her offices

About these issues, especially the alleged facebook post.

If she started expressing her doubt of alex's guilt

Or innocence, especially before they rendered a verdict,

Before they were even released to deliberate,

I would have thought there would have been some complaints

By other jurors made.

But there were no similar complaints.

Nobody said that she had expressed that she was

Going to vote him not guilty.

So how would ms. Becky have known

That if she didn't voice that?

That's the disconnect I'm seeing.

The fact that judge newman said in open court

He was a little concerned that she had spent some time talking

To the "egg lady" juror about these allegations,

It's like, someone should have, I think,

Been a little bit more careful about the way

The whole trial was running, in particular with her position.

Because it isn't a stretch to think that somebody,

You know, a good old girl from the good old south,

Might get a little caught up in what people have called

The trial of the century.

Eric bland: Obviously, harpootlian and

Is basing this-- the genesis of this is the, quote, unquote,

"egg juror."

She's the one that was very upset for being

Discharged from the jury.

From what I understand, very upset.

But she wasn't discharged by anything that becky did.

If there's going to be an investigation,

I think you're going to be surprised

Of what you hear about the egg lady from the other jurors.

I think you're going to be surprised at whether she

Actually followed the judge's directives

Throughout the trial.

Martha maccallum: The defense motion

Also points to the jury's March 1 visit to the murder scene.

Rebecca hill: Well, I went with the jury to do the site visit,

To see moselle.

Of course, my curiosity was high, just

To see what it looked like.

I've heard so many stories of moselle

And the good times that were had out there.

But arriving at moselle and seeing the property

Was a little double-edged, knowing

That maggie was murdered there and paul was murdered there.

Martha maccallum: What hill wrote in her book

About that visit is now being called

Into question by the defense.

In it, hill writes, quote--

Well, you know, the problem I have

With what she says in there is, after going to marselle--

Moselle, we-- if you noticed, she used the plural "we"--

Felt such and such and such and such.

This was just one day before they started

Deliberations and less than 48 hours

After a verdict was returned.

And this visit to moselle was supposed to be very crucial.

We meaning who?

We meaning the jury?

We?

No.

We meaning her and the court staff.

The jury was together.

She wasn't with the jury.

The jury was being marshaled by bailiffs and security guards.

I think you're going to hear from other jurors

That they didn't even hear anything from ms. Becky

During the walk through.

We meaning is-- she's going to have to define who that we is.

Neil gordon: And she mentioned in "behind the doors

Of justice" that at some point, her eyes

Locked with several different members of the jury.

And just based on women's intuition,

She just felt that was at the point

That it sealed alex murdaugh's fate.

If she had to pick one moment in time, that was the moment.

Martha maccallum: But hill doubled down on what she

Meant by we in our interview.

I've been a court reporter.

I've been a clerk of court now for three years.

And you get a feel for a jury.

And in speaking with them and in going to the site visit

That we did to the moselle property,

We didn't have to speak a word.

Our eyes, between me and the jury, said it all.

I believe that the site visit sealed

The deal with their conviction in alex murdaugh.

It's almost like maggie and paul spoke from the grave.

And I know that sounds a little weird.

But there was an eerie, eerie feeling on the property

That morning that we went.

And when we went over to the areas

Where paul and maggie had lain, the wind had even picked up.

But you could just hear in the breeze voices saying, you know,

That he's guilty.

Martha maccallum: Murdaugh's team

Also accuses becky hill of forcing the jury

To reach a quick verdict.

Saying, you know, you should be able to come

To this pretty quickly.

And by the way, if you don't, if it's not done by 11:00 pm,

You're going to have to stay for the night.

I think what you're going to hear

Is maybe they were told that they can

Deliberate to a certain time.

And then, at that time, if a verdict isn't reached,

They're going to end up going to a hotel

And that they would be able to return the next day

To continue deliberations.

People deliberating late into the night, beyond 10:00

Maybe get tired.

There are some people my age, who are elderly,

10 o'clock at night is kind of late when you start your day

At 7:00 in the morning.

So if that's pressure, I don't know.

Martha maccallum: But that's not all.

One of the things we heard was, once the jury went out,

Even though there were six smokers

And they were given smoke breaks during the entire trial,

Once the jury went out, they were told,

No more smoke breaks.

You're not-- people that want nicotine,

You're going to have to get a verdict first.

Martha maccallum: In our interview,

Hill also hinted that she didn't think

It should take a jury long to find alex murdaugh guilty.

Rebecca hill: After the jury had gone to the jury room,

I really felt like it was not even going to take three hours.

I really thought 45 minutes, and they would be back in here.

So around 6 o'clock, when I asked the foreperson if they

Were ready for me to order supper and the response

That I got told me that, no, they were ready to come out

In the next few minutes, I kind of knew that it was going

To be a guilty verdict too.

Martha maccallum: And indeed, in less than three hours,

The jury had a decision.

Breaking tonight, we are getting word from the pool that

Covers the trial of alex murdaugh

That a verdict has been reached.

Madam forelady, if you'll stand for me.

Have you reached a verdict?

Forelady: Yes-- yes, sir, we have.

Is it unanimous?

Forelady: Yes, sir, it is.

I'm the one that read the verdict for the guilty verdict

Of alex murdaugh.

The state of south carolina county of colleton in the court

Of general sessions in the term of 2022, July,

The state versus richard alexander murdaugh,

Defendant, indictment for murder, sc code 16-3-0010,

Cdr code 0116--

--Ok.

Guilty verdict.

I just find it difficult to believe that 12 jurors would

Find somebody of murder, guilty of murder,

They could get life imprisonment twice,

Simply because somebody may have said something,

Made one statement.

Judge newman: Your jury has been polled,

And the verdict is a unanimous verdict.

Rebecca hill: Alex murdaugh had no reaction at all

During the reading of the verdicts.

There were so many reactions from so many others.

I could see members of sled weeping.

They had a lot of time invested in this investigation.

They knew the murdaughs, for the most part, from the other side.

They were also torn with doing a job from knowing this family

For years and years and years and then coming to grips

With alex being a murderer.

It was hard.

What I haven't heard from any juror

Yet is any juror said that they felt that they made a verdict

That they didn't otherwise wanted to make,

That they were forced into voting for guilt when they

Thought he was innocent, or that anything ms. Becky said caused

Them to vote in a certain way.

A lot of these folks just don't want to get involved,

But they're going to be involved if we get a hearing

Because each and every one of them

Is going to have to testify in an open court before you

As to what happened.

So far, we have been retained by four of these jurors who

Rendered a verdict.

My clients want to cooperate with law enforcement

Because they were law-abiding citizens who gave

A law-abiding oath, and they rendered a true and just

Verdict without interference.

So they've given written statements.

They're willing to testify under oath to support

The verdict that they gave.

Interviewer: Any comments at all about the allegations?

Did you tamper with the jurors?

Do you have lawyers now?

Any comment at all, rebecca?

I think she's just nervous, overwhelmed.

And she's relying on her faith and prayer

And friends and family.

And I always say to her, what happens in the dark

Will always come to light.

And please remember that if alex murdaugh is innocent

Until proven guilty and he had an opportunity for all

The facts to come out, doesn't becky hill

Deserve that same opportunity?

Eric bland: I think a judge is going to be hard pressed

To reverse this jury verdict at this time and maybe says, well,

Send it up to the appellate court

And let the appellate judges reverse this if they want.

Dana kennedy: If I were a betting

Person, if I were an oddsmaker in vegas,

I'd say he gets a new trial.

But in this particular case, at the same time,

Nothing would surprise me.

I mean, we thought all the twists and turns were over.

And there already were enough of them.

I mean, this is as if it were scripted by hollywood.

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