Murdaugh attorneys want murder indictments dismissed

And in just about 30 minutes from now, Alec Murdoch will be back at a South Carolina courtroom for a hearing ahead of his murder retrial. He was convicted of killing his wife and son back in 2023. But earlier this year, the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the conviction, saying a former clerk tampered with the jury and denied him a fair trial. Fox's Chelsea Torres is live. She's at the Lexington County Courthouse. Chelsea, what are we expected to hear in court today? Good morning. Hi there. Good morning, Tom Kelly. We're just about 30 minutes away from when this hearing should begin. We do know about an hour ago is when Alec Murdoch, we believe, arrived. He will be in plain clothes today. We'll see him in a suit as we've seen in the past couple of hearings. And his defense attorneys are asking the judge today to throw out the murder charges altogether. That's because they believe that the lead investigator in the case misled the grand jury by presenting false and misleading forensic information. So the dispute comes over this white T-shirt that Murdoch was The state was wearing the night of the murders. The state tested the shirt in a lab and really didn't detect any human blood. But then months later, prosecutors hired a blood spatter expert who had not seen those states lab results and concluded there was blood on the shirt after reviewing enhanced images. So, Based on those findings, the lead investigator told the grand jury there was in fact blood on the shirt despite their negative lab results. So essentially the defense is saying that the prosecutors lied, but the state is pushing back saying they did not falsify anything. Now the defense also says that the lead investigator misled the grand jury by claiming ammo from other Murdoch family shotguns also matched the same ammunition And the murder weapon, but as we learned that That didn't. So prosecutors say they still have more than enough evidence to go against Murdoch, regardless of what the defense's allegations are for today. Guys. Yeah, we know this was a case, a trial that captured a lot of people across the country and will continue to do so. Thanks so much. We'll keep an eye on what happens there in the next 30 minutes or so. Thanks, Chelsea. Just about 8:30.