NY Times: Murdaugh’s Lawyers Seek New Trial, Saying Clerk Tampered With Jury
NYTimes.com direct link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/alex-murdaugh-clerk-rebecca-hill.html?searchResultPosition=1
If these allegations are true, this was some severe misconduct by the clerk of the court. In what would’ve been a slam dunk case, she really screwed up. 
Tainted juries are all the rage these days it seems.