The attorney who helped win Alex Murdaugh a new trial says the defense is ready to take on the piece of evidence that helped sink him the first time around.
In a new interview on “Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno,” veteran defense lawyer Dick Harpootlian revealed his team has a strategy for dealing with the infamous kennel video that prosecutors used to place Murdaugh near the scene of the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.
The cellphone video, recorded by Paul Murdaugh shortly before he and his mother were killed in June 2021, became one of the most damaging pieces of evidence presented during Murdaugh’s 2023 murder trial. Prosecutors argued the recording destroyed Murdaugh’s original alibi and placed him at the family’s Colleton County kennels minutes before the killings.
Now, as Murdaugh prepares for a new trial, Harpootlian says the defense has a plan.
“We absolutely do, we absolutely do,” Harpootlian told Rotunno when asked whether his team has a strategy to address the video. “Yes, and we understand that’s an issue and it’s got to be dealt with.”
While Harpootlian declined to reveal specifics, the comments offer the clearest indication yet that Murdaugh’s legal team intends to challenge one of the prosecution’s most powerful exhibits when the case returns to court.
