Alex Murdaugh asks to leave jail after 5 days behind bars

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Lawyers for salient South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh program to inquire a justice connected Tuesday to assistance enslaved for their client, who has spent 5 nights successful jailhouse pursuing his 2nd arrest successful astir a month.

Murdaugh, whose woman and lad were changeable to decease months agone successful a sidesplitting that is inactive unresolved, stole $3.4 cardinal of security wealth that was meant for the sons of his housekeeper, who died aft falling successful his home, according to sworn statements by the State Law Enforcement Division.

Murdaugh is already retired connected a recognizance enslaved for a September apprehension connected security fraud charges aft authorities agents said he tried to put his ain shooting decease connected a roadside so that his surviving lad could cod a $10 cardinal beingness security policy. The would-be fatal slug lone grazed him.

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Murdaugh's latest enslaved proceeding connected 2 caller charges of obtaining spot by mendacious pretenses is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday. He was arrested astatine a cause rehab halfway adjacent Orlando, Florida, connected Thursday and brought backmost to South Carolina.

The housekeeper's security isn't the lone six-figure lawsuit being investigated by authorities police. Murdaugh's erstwhile instrumentality steadfast — founded by his great-grandfather a period agone — has accused him of stealing perchance millions of dollars.

Murdaugh's attorney, Dick Harpootlian, said past week that Murdaugh plans to bash what helium tin to close his fiscal wrongs, and has accepted that helium volition astir apt walk clip successful prison. Each complaint of obtaining spot by mendacious pretenses carries a condemnation of up to 10 years. The 3 felony charges from the botched effort to put his ain decease could bring up to 20 years successful situation if he's convicted.

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Murdaugh continues to importune helium had thing to bash with the June deaths of his wife, Maggie, 52, and their lad Paul, 22. Murdaugh said helium returned to their agrarian Colleton County location to find them changeable to death. Tight-lipped state constabulary person neither named immoderate suspects nor ruled anyone out.

Murdaugh's housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, died from a changeable and bosom onslaught successful February, much than 3 weeks aft being wounded successful a autumn astatine the Murdaugh home. No autopsy was performed, and a coroner said her decease was improperly described arsenic “natural” connected her decease certificate.

Murdaugh told Satterfield's sons helium would assistance them get security settlements for her death, recommending they prosecute lawyer Cory Fleming without telling them Fleming was a household friend, according to a suit filed by the sons.

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Murdaugh negotiated much than $4 cardinal successful payments, past had the checks — minus fees and lawyer payments — sent to his slope account, authorities said.

A lawyer for the sons said they haven't seen immoderate wealth from the settlements.

Fleming has promised to instrumentality immoderate wealth helium received to the sons and wage them an unspecified magnitude from a malpractice security policy.

The authorities Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the instrumentality licenses of some Fleming and Murdaugh.

In summation to each of the different cases, authorities constabulary are looking into whether Murdaugh has connections to a 2015 hit-and-run decease and whether helium oregon different household members tried to obstruct the investigation into a vessel clang involving Paul Murdaugh that killed a 19-year-old pistillate successful 2019.

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The Murdaugh household has dominated the ineligible assemblage successful Hampton County for astir the past century. Murdaugh's father, gramps and great-grandfather were elected prosecutors and the household founded and built a prestigious instrumentality steadfast known for suing railroads.

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This communicative has been corrected; the housekeeper's sanction was Gloria, not Glorida.

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