{"id":1054,"date":"2026-05-13T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:40:03","slug":"alex-murdaughs-murder-convictions-overturned-by-south-carolina-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Alex Murdaugh\u2019s murder convictions overturned by South Carolina supreme court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justices said decision was due to \u2018improper external influences on the jury\u2019 by a court clerk during the trial<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The South Carolina supreme court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/08\/south-carolina-clerk-photo-murdaugh-murder-case\">Alex Murdaugh<\/a>, the disgraced South Carolina attorney, due to \u201cshocking jury interference\u201d and ordered a new trial in the 2021 killing of his wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous opinion, the justices said that \u201calthough we are aware of the time, money, and effort expended for this lengthy trial, we have no choice but to reverse the denial of Murdaugh\u2019s motion for a new trial\u201d because of what they described as \u201cimproper external influences on the jury\u201d by a court clerk during the trial, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/13\/us\/alex-murdaugh-murder-appeal?Date=20260513&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1778682317&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/13\/alex-murdaugh-murder-convictions-overturned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices said decision was due to \u2018improper external influences on the jury\u2019 by a court clerk during the trial Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}