Attorneys for disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh say prosecutors are taking too long to share their evidence alleging the disbarred attorney killed his wife and son, unfairly making it tougher to defend him at his upcoming trial.
It’s a technical legal dispute that precedes many trials, but because of overwhelming public attention on Murdaugh’s case, attorney Dick Harpootlian called a news conference Wednesday that drew a dozen cameras at which he declared prosecutors want a “trial by ambush.”
Defense attorneys said prosecutors waited until Friday to make the protection request so they could delay turning over the evidence after the deadline. Since it took 13 months to finish the investigation, the defense said, prosecutors should already have had a lot of evidence ready to send. Prosecutors said the only reason the deadline was missed was because defense attorneys initially appeared to agree to the protection order Friday then changed their minds., according to their legal filing in the matter.
Someone in the Attorney General’s Office has already leaked information, Harpootlian said. “All I know about blood spatter is what I read in some blog,” he said.Neither prosecutors nor state investigators have leaked information in the case, state Attorney General Alan Wilson said in a statement.
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