More than 200 jurors, witnesses and attendees of the double murder trial of disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh left the Colleton County Courthouse Wednesday after a bomb threat. It turned out to be a hoax.
The 2.5-hour delay was the latest twist in a sensational trial being viewed across the world. Wednesday was the 13th day of the trial and featured prosecution witnesses describing forensic, digital and financial evidence.
“The day was emblematic of prosecutors’ scattered approach to Murdaugh’s high-profile trial,” one media outlet reported. “The S.C. Attorney General’s Office has called 39 witnesses over three weeks, repeatedly bouncing between subject matters and types of evidence.”
Testimony continues today. Prosecutors are expected to call one of Murdaugh’s closest friends.
In other headlines:
Latest abortion moves could lead to stalemate. The latest effort to ban abortion in South Carolina could be facing another stalemate as the legislature’s strictest abortion foes continue to reject anything other than a ban at conception.
Calhoun wins Charleston Co. school board special election. Daron Lee Calhoun II was elected Tuesday to the Charleston County School District Board of Trustees. Calhoun defeated opponent Lee Runyon 418 to 377 in a special election to fill the empty District 6 seat.
Charleston apartment plan fails for 4th time. A nearly 300-unit apartment proposal’s design has once again failed to get an initial OK for the fourth time. The Board of Architectural Review said the long-sought project at 295 Calhoun St. needed more modifications to its mass and scale.
Mount Pleasant’s I’On neighborhood wins Supreme Court case against developer. The homeowners association for the upscale I’On section of Mount Pleasant won its legal battle with the developer of the mixed-use neighborhood patterned after Charleston’s Historic District after years of back-and-forth.
S.C. becomes only state with all-male high court. South Carolina became the only state in the nation without a female justice on its Supreme Court Wednesday. The Republican-led Legislature chose Court of Appeals Judge Gary Hill of Greenville, S.C. to replace the high court’s lone female justice, Kaye Hearn, who reached retirement age.
Palmetto Flag bill returns to the Senate. After a bill to codify an official state flag design died on the Senate floor last session the Senate’s Family and Veterans Affairs Committee unanimously sent a rekindled flag bill to the Senate floor.
S.C. House approves bill allowing parents to sue over suspicions of racist lessons. Democrats argued against the measure, as bullying teachers into whitewashing the ugly parts of the state and nation’s history, while Republicans countered the bill is designed to ensure students are given facts instead of opinion while learning the past’s entire scope.
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