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What shocked legal experts about Alex Murdaugh’s overturned murder convictions

“If this doesn’t cross the line, then how do you decide where the line is?” a former prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer asked.
Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images

At the center of the decision to overturn Alex Murdaugh’s convictions in the murders of his wife and son is one person: a court clerk accused of behaving so egregiously that the South Carolina Supreme Court had no choice but to throw out the disgraced lawyer’s guilty verdicts.

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