Alex Murdaugh's legal team says new evidence casts enough doubt on the disgraced lawyer's guilty verdict to ask for a new trial.
Attorney Jim Griffin and Murdaugh's chief counsel, State Senator Dick Harpootlian, are scheduling a news conference for Monday afternoon in Columbia. Harpootlian's announcement of that says "discovered evidence" supports the motion for a new trial.
Several sources say copies of the motion as filed was distributed Monday morning for the benefit of print media.
Murdaugh is serving consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at the family's hunting estate in Colleton County.