Murdaugh murder retrial could crack open sealed court records tied to infamous ‘egg juror’

The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is asking the authorities Supreme Court to unseal concealed tribunal transcripts tied to the removal of Alex Murdaugh’s "egg juror," arguing the records should beryllium made nationalist present that the disgraced ineligible scion has been granted a caller execution trial.

In a question filed Thursday, prosecutors asked the precocious tribunal to retract the state’s erstwhile objection and assistance restrictions for the on-camera proceeding transcript that led to the dismissal of Juror 785, identified successful anterior filings arsenic Myra Crosby, earlier deliberations successful Murdaugh’s 2023 double-murder trial.

The question marks the latest twist successful the fallout from the once-powerful South Carolina attorney’s overturned convictions for the June 2021 killings of his wife, Maggie, and their younger son, Paul, astatine the family’s sprawling Moselle hunting estate.

Myra Crosby earned the nickname "Egg Juror" aft asking a justice if she could retrieve her twelve eggs and purse earlier being dismissed from a case, prompting laughter successful the courtroom. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool/ Fox Nation)

Crosby became known arsenic the "egg juror" aft she was removed from the panel. As Judge Clifton Newman dismissed her from the case, Crosby asked if she could retrieve her purse and a twelve eggs that different juror had brought to tribunal to springiness away, prompting laughter successful the courtroom.

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The South Carolina Supreme Court reversed Murdaugh’s 2 execution convictions connected May 13. The remittitur was issued May 29, formally sending the execution lawsuit backmost to the little tribunal for further proceedings.

Prosecutors noted that, arsenic of the filing, nary circuit tribunal justice had yet been appointed to preside implicit Murdaugh's caller execution proceedings.

Myra Crosby, known arsenic the Egg Juror, exits the Colleton County courthouse successful Walterboro, S.C., connected March 2, 2023, aft being dismissed for misconduct from the Alex Murdaugh treble execution proceedings by Judge Clifton Newman. (Larry Paci for Fox News Digital)

According to prosecutors, the sealed transcript details a backstage proceeding wherever Newman removed Crosby from the assemblage for allegedly discussing the lawsuit prematurely.

Those records were initially sealed and restricted nether protective orders entered by Newman and aboriginal continued by retired South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Toal, who was assigned to preside implicit Murdaugh’s bid for a caller proceedings aft allegations surfaced against erstwhile Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca "Becky" Hill.

The authorities said those restrictions antecedently barred work oregon dissemination of the transcript, adjacent though attorneys for the parties and Crosby’s counsel were permitted to reappraisal the material.

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Alex Murdaugh is escorted from the Colleton County Courthouse successful South Carolina connected Feb. 8, 2023. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital)

Crosby has continued to petition that the transcripts beryllium unsealed. In September 2024, prosecutors objected, arguing the petition was premature due to the fact that the entreaty had not yet been resolved.

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The state's Supreme Court erstwhile again denied Crosby’s petition successful October 2024. But prosecutors present accidental the posture of the lawsuit has changed dramatically.

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"Here, a caller proceedings has been granted to Appellant," the filing states. "There should beryllium nary prejudice to immoderate enactment astatine this time. Consequently, the scales should present extremity to unsealing and removing restrictions."

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Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh pleaded blameworthy to 22 fiscal crimes successful Beaufort, S.C., connected Nov. 17, 2023. (James Pollard/AP)

The state’s question says the petition is "not astir litigation" but alternatively astir nationalist entree to tribunal records maintained by the state's Supreme Court.

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The filing asks the Supreme Court to let the antecedently protected transcripts from Newman’s backstage proceedings "supporting the removal of Juror 785" to beryllium filed arsenic a supplement to the nationalist appellate record.

Prosecutors besides asked the tribunal to state anterior restrictions connected sharing, discussing oregon disclosing the contents of the transcript moot, which would let the parties and Crosby to talk publically astir the substance without violating earlier tribunal orders.

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The question comes conscionable weeks aft Crosby separately fought to ace unfastened sealed investigative records related to the jury-tampering ungraded that helped upend Murdaugh’s convictions.

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In that filing, Crosby argued that the nationalist involvement would beryllium champion served by transparency present that prosecutors person acknowledged the jury-tampering probe into Hill did not effect successful transgression charges.

Hill was accused by Murdaugh’s defence squad of improperly influencing jurors to unafraid a blameworthy verdict. She has denied tampering with the jury.

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Murdaugh’s attorneys person argued that Hill’s alleged conduct, including her interactions with jurors, deprived him of a just trial. The defence has besides alleged Crosby’s dismissal was portion of a broader effort that affected the constitution of the assemblage earlier deliberations.

Toal rejected Murdaugh’s petition for a caller proceedings successful January 2024 aft an evidentiary hearing, uncovering that though Hill made improper comments to jurors, the defence had not proven that her behaviour affected the verdict.

The South Carolina Supreme Court aboriginal took up the lawsuit and yet granted Murdaugh a caller proceedings based connected Hill’s interactions with jurors.

Alex Murdaugh is incarcerated astatine the McCormick Correctional Institution successful South Carolina. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Murdaugh, 57, remains imprisoned aft pleading blameworthy to a bid of fiscal crimes that exposed years of theft from clients, his erstwhile instrumentality steadfast and the property of his precocious housekeeper.

His execution case, however, is present headed backmost to court.

The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.