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Over the next few weeks, our media outlet will be providing extensive coverage of the upcoming retrial hearing for convicted killer Alex Murdaugh.
As part of our coverage, we will be sitting down with legal experts from across the Palmetto State – and beyond – to get their impressions of the proceedings. Our first guest? South Carolina attorney Lauren Taylor.
There’s a reason we’re featuring Taylor first. Well, several reasons, really.
For starters, as you will see from watching this clip, she’s brilliant. Experienced. Insightful. She’s also polished, professional and well-rounded as a lawyer. With more than a dozen years under her belt as a criminal, family and personal injury attorney, Taylor can speak authoritatively on all the angles touched by the Murdaugh case – including the context in which it exists within the Palmetto State’s judicial system.
Which she did masterfully in this interview …
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She’s also unbiased and analytical – not involved in any way, shape or form with the parties or their attorneys/ allies. In other words, she’s able to offer insightful, dispassionate assessments of the arguments made by all of the participants to this process free from preconception. This, in fact, is her first interview on the Murdaugh case – a definitional “fresh take.”
We’re also featuring Taylor first because she’s going to be part of our coverage moving forward – including (we hope) as a participant on panel discussions involving other guests. In other words, we’re looking forward to her not only sharing her unique insights on this process with our audience – but helping us frame the discussion moving forward with our future guests.
Stay tuned for many more of these conversations as we ramp up our retrial hearing coverage in the days and weeks to come …
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina and before that he was a bass guitarist and dive bar bouncer. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and seven (soon to be eight) children.
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“Just be honest. Let’s just lay all the chips on the table.” Best advice to everyone involved in the Murdaugh Circus. Rebecca Hill needs to take the high road if justice is to be had in this entire sordid situation. Regardless, if a new trial is granted, he would again be convicted. He was there when Maggie and Paul were executed, annihilated. And it had been “planned for a long time” by the man who has “nothing in him,” Richard Alexander Murdaugh. The evidence is irrefutable.
You will want to review Judge Newman’s parting comments to the “Egg Juror.” The juror asks Newman if her dismissal was due to her ex-husband. Newman responded, “It’s not related . . . “
The egg juror also asked, is this because I spoke with Becky Hill? I’m sure that was left out of your comment intentionally. Judge Newman’s response should have been YES to the Becky Hill question! There actually should have been a mistrial when judge Newman stated in camera, that he was NOT Happy about his Clerk INTERROGATING a juror without his knowledge or permission. Fun side note, turns out, the “interrogation” of the egg juror by Becky Hill was directly related to some fake facebook post that she (and most likely, her brilliant IT son) completely made up and deleted. They probably used one of the 4 missing or wiped clean cell phones they had to do it too! I find it interesting that Becky always found herself an excuse to make it into the judges chambers when private meetings were held between the attorneys and judge. She probably had his office and emails wiretapped too! How else would she have known about the tenant co-worker’s email sent directly to the judge? She mentioned this in her plagiarized book. Btw. Big thank you to Fits News for releasing the JM interview on YouTube so that the public has free access to the whole interview. Mandy & Liz actually expect people to have to pay to have access to something that can be FOIAed. Glad y’all are above that level of greed.