SC Attorney General Files Response To Alex Murdaugh Attorney Motions

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)โ€“ Thursday, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a response to two recent motions filed by defense attorneys for Alex Murdaugh.

Murdaugh is accused in the murders of his wife and son at the familyโ€™s hunting property in June of โ€™21.

Defense attorneys have filed two motions, one calling for additional evidence to be handed over by the state and another asking a judge to strike the stateโ€™s request for an alibi claiming the state did not provide the exact time, date, and place the alleged crime happened.

Wilson says a hearing on the motions will take place Thursday in Florence before Judge Clifton Newman.

Murduaghโ€™s trial is scheduled to begin January 23rd in Colleton Co.