謀殺罪名成立后，亞歷克斯·默多的律師正式提出重新審判的動議

Alex Murdaugh has officially filed a motion for a new trial, eight months after he was found guilty for the 2021 murders of his wife and son.

亞歷克斯·默多正式提出了重新審判的動議，八個月前，他被判犯有2021年謀殺妻子和兒子的罪行。

The motion was filed in Colleton County, South Carolina, on Friday, multiple outlets reported, including Fox Carolina and Greenville News.

包括福克斯卡羅來納和格林維爾新聞在內(nèi)的多家媒體報道稱，該動議于周五在南卡羅來納州的科爾頓縣提起。

The formal filing comes roughly two months after Murdaugh’s legal team appealed the disgraced South Carolina attorney’s convictions. Murdaugh, 55, received two life sentences in March for killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and son, Paul, 22.

大約兩個月前，默多的法律團隊對這位聲名狼藉的南卡羅來納州律師的定罪提出了上訴。今年3月，55歲的默多因殺害52歲的妻子瑪吉和22歲的兒子保羅而被判無期徒刑。

PEOPLE reviewed a motion filed by Murdaugh’s defense attorneys Richard Harpootlian and James Griffin in September, which accuses Rebecca Hill, the Colleton County Clerk of Court, of tampering with the jury and “advising them not to believe Murdaugh's testimony and other evidence presented by the defense, pressuring them to reach a quick guilty verdict, and even misrepresenting critical and material information to the trial judge in her campaign to remove a juror she believed to be favorable to the defense.”

《人物》雜志回顧了穆爾多的辯護律師理查德·哈波特利安和詹姆斯·格里芬在9月份提交的一份動議，該動議指控科勒頓縣法院書記麗貝卡·希爾(Rebecca Hill)干擾陪審團，并“建議他們不要相信穆爾多的證詞和辯方提供的其他證據(jù)，迫使他們迅速做出有罪判決，甚至在審判法官撤換她認為對辯方有利的陪審員時，向她歪曲關(guān)鍵和重要的信息。”

According to the motion, Hill “pressured the jurors to reach a quick verdict, telling them from the outset of their deliberations that it ‘shouldn’t take them long.”

根據(jù)動議，希爾“向陪審員施加壓力，要求他們迅速做出裁決，從他們審議的一開始就告訴他們‘不應(yīng)該花太長時間’。”

"Ms. Hill did these things to secure for herself a book deal and media appearances that would not happen in the event of a mistrial," the motion reads. "Ms. Hill betrayed her oath of office for money and fame."

“希爾女士做這些事情是為了確保自己的出書合同和媒體曝光率，而這些在審判無效的情況下是不會發(fā)生的，”動議寫道。"希爾女士為了金錢和名譽背叛了她的就職誓言"

“The serious allegations in the petition filed today speak for themselves but we believe they explain a number of peculiarities in the six-week trial,” Murdaugh’s attorneys said in a statement to PEOPLE at the time. “Alex Murdaugh maintained and still maintains his innocence of the murder of Maggie and Paul and he believes the truth will ultimately prevail."

穆爾多的律師當時在給《人物》雜志的一份聲明中說:“今天提交的請愿書中的嚴重指控不言自明，但我們認為它們解釋了六周審判中的一些奇怪之處。”“亞歷克斯·默多一直堅持認為他是無辜的，他相信真相最終會占上風。”

Hill denied allegations of jury tampering to the Hampton County Guardian in September.

今年9月，希爾在接受《漢普頓郡衛(wèi)報》采訪時否認了對陪審團進行干預(yù)的指控。

The Post and Courier reported that Murdaugh’s attorneys filed another motion on Wednesday to remove Judge Clifton Newman from the case before he can rule over the motion for a new trial.

據(jù)《郵報和信使報》報道，默多的律師周三提出了另一項動議，要求在克利夫頓·紐曼法官對重新審判的動議作出裁決之前，將他從此案中除名。

According to the Associated Press, Murdaugh’s attorneys argued that Newman is no longer impartial to the facts of the case because he implied in several interviews after the sentencing that Murdaugh was guilty. They also argued that Newman is a material witness to Hill allegedly tampering with the jury.

據(jù)美聯(lián)社報道，穆爾多的律師辯稱，紐曼在判決后的幾次采訪中暗示穆爾多有罪，因此不再對案件的事實持公正態(tài)度。他們還辯稱，紐曼是希爾涉嫌干擾陪審團的重要證人。

“If the factfinder is a judge who has denounced Mr. Murdaugh on national television, the decision on the motion for a new trial will be unreviewable and forever suspect. The bell cannot be un-rung on appeal,” the attorneys claim, per The Post and Courier.

如果調(diào)查人員是一名曾在全國電視上譴責穆爾多的法官，那么重新審判動議的決定將是不可復(fù)審的，而且永遠是可疑的。根據(jù)《郵報》和《信使報》的報道，律師們聲稱:“上訴不能撤銷。”