Alex Murdaugh on Jan. 16, 2024.Photo:Tracy Glantz/The State via AP

Alex Murdaugh, convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in June 2021, sits during a hearing on a motion for a retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, at the Richland County Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C.

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Last March,Murdaugh was found guiltyof the 2021 murders of his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and son, Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before convicting the former personal injury lawyer. Murdaugh was sentenced totwo life sentences in prisonfor the murders.

Maggie Murdaugh, left, and Paul Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/ Facebook

Maggie Murdaugh; Paul Murdaugh

Maggie Murdaugh/ Facebook

Murdaugh’s attorney’s accused Hill of jury tampering in order to “secure a book deal and media appearances that would not happen in the event of a mistrial,” the attorneys claimed in the motion. “Ms. Hill betrayed her oath of office for money and fame.” (Hill released a book about the Murdaugh murder trial —Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders— in late July.)

Toal added that in the case, “the evidence was overwhelming and the jury verdict not surprising.”

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Barnwell County court clerk Rhonda McElveen also testified, stating that before the trial, Hill brought up the idea of writing a book about the trial and said that if there was a guilty verdict, they’d be able to “sell more books.”

Alex Murdaugh on Jan. 16, 2024.Tracy Glantz/The State via AP

Alex Murdaugh, convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in June 2021, is escorted out of the courtroom following a hearing on a motion for a retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, at the Richland County Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C.

What’s Next for Alex Murdaugh?

Murdaugh remains in a high-security South Carolina prison, serving two life sentences for the murders of Paul and Maggie. According toCBS News, he was moved into protective custody last April.

In November,the disgraced lawyer and convicted family murderer pleaded guilty to 22 financial crimes, including wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and more, the South Carolina Attorney General’s office previously confirmed to PEOPLE. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison for those crimes,ABC Newsreports.

The son of Murdaugh’s longtime housekeeperGloria Satterfield, who died in a mysterious trip and fall at the Murdaugh estate, spoke at Murdaugh’s sentencing.

“You lied, you cheated, you stole,” Michael Satterfield said in part,NBC Newsreported. “You betrayed me and my family and everybody else.”

“It is unimaginable to me that you have done some of the things you have done,” Circuit Judge Clifton Newman told Murdaugh at the sentencing, NBC News reported. “Whether it is you or someone you become upon using drugs or the process of committing crimes over and over, I don’t know. I don’t even know who I am speaking to now.”

source: people.com