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Why Is Murdaugh's Defense Using A Federal Lawsuit To Investigate Becky Hill?
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- May 24, 2026
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Summary
The defense team didn't file this lawsuit just to hold Becky Hill accountable. They filed it to investigate her. Civil discovery gives them tools the state never used — subpoenas, depositions, sworn testimony under penalty of perjury — and the complaint makes clear they intend to use every one of them. The Section 1983 claim alleges Hill deprived Alex Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a fair trial before an untampered jury. The South Carolina Supreme Court already found her conduct warranted reversal. Jim Griffin raised the central question at the press conference: was Becky Hill a lone wolf? Or did someone else know what was happening during those deliberations? The complaint highlights the suspicious removal of juror Myra Crosby as a critical incident the defense believes has never been adequately examined. The suit seeks more than six hundred thousand dollars in damages tied to the original trial's cost, all flowing to the receivership — none to Murdaugh personally. The defense argues the state never thoroughly investigated Hill's conduct, never treated it as the constitutional violation the Supreme Court subsequently found it to be, and never followed the evidence to its logical end. This federal action is designed to reach what the state wouldn't touch. The lawsuit sits alongside the broader defense strategy for trial two. The Supreme Court's ruling created an evidentiary firewall around the financial testimony — clear skepticism about the twelve-hour presentation and instructions to sharply limit it at retrial. The defense will challenge every financial witness armed with the court's own published language. Behind that firewall, the physical case stands exposed: no DNA on the defendant, no blood, both weapons still missing, no eyewitnesses, and a crime scen…