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Alex Murdaugh's second double murder trial will move out of Colton County, South Carolina.

On Friday, Circuit Judge Deborah McCaslin ruled that he couldn't get a fair trial in Colton County and ordered the case moved outside the state's 14th Judicial Circuit.

She hasn't yet chosen a new county.

Murdoch's lawyers want Charleston because it has the largest jury pool.

So, you know, we always do this with everybody, obviously.

A lot of people know you because you've been... around a long time and uh but for anybody that may not know your background or whatever you're actually running for circuit court judge rankin and madison county which is going to be this coming tuesday and they consider that district 20 place one right that's correct okay but your background man i mean firefighter police officer federal prosecutor i mean you tell me

Well, you know, it started, I guess, back when I was just fresh, brand new, 18, actually a little bit before that.

But it started as a reservoir fire department five days after I turned 18 in December of 94 and did that for several years until I decided to go to college.

Yeah.

Grew up in Pearl, obviously around the same time as the great mayor here in Pearl.

So lots of, lots of going back to the day right now, you know? But if people have heard your name the very first time, if there's anybody out there, cause there could be, you never know what led you to move on and say, you know, it's time for me to run for circuit court judge and,

Well, you know, I've been practicing law for 20 years, Darryl.

So does that, is that stamp official from a deputy clerk without a, without the, you know, the little slant and then the S that you have to have on there that shows your electronic signature? So it says Victor D.

Christ, clerk of the circuit court.

is basically the one that signed off on this then.

But what's the difference then if the judge hasn't signed off on a motion for default that the opposing counsel put in on the United States of America for not showing up to two of our hearings? Because I think I just stumbled on something that I didn't even discover myself.

And then it says it was filed under here.

And then the signature is on the last page, which looks like another motion almost.

Like it looks like, and it says in the circuit court of the 13th judicial circuit, like the cover of the motion is on here again.

And then it just has the It says, So what they're trying to say is that if you filed any sort of paper on the docket, regardless, you don't have to attend any of the hearings and don't get sanctioned for it.

don't think they usually do.

I mean, I'm telling you, Wednesdays in Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, all they're doing is restoring rights all

morning.

Well, yeah.

He got his gun rights back or he's had a gun for a long time.

And I don't know how it happened or the mechanism.

But I guess those records are in the Portsmouth Circuit Court.

Well, it's possible.

And so as it goes, before the days of radio, talking movies or television, exciting criminal trial could draw spectators to the county courthouse for miles around.

Kosciuszko Circuit Court has had its share of interesting cases, but one still remembered by old timers occurred in the spring of 1921.

Four men were charged with murder, and the attorney for the defense was the greatest criminal lawyer in the country, the renowned Clarence Darrow of Chicago.

People drove from all over surrounding counties to see and hear the famous lawyer who had made his reputation fighting for the underdog.

You're going to

hear some familiar names here a little bit.

Circuit Court Judge L.W. Royce, who presided at the trial, would not allow prisoners to be handcuffed in his court.

That ruling, coupled with the large crowd presented each day of the trial, made the task for those deputies difficult.

Alex Murdaugh's second double murder trial will move out of Colton County, South Carolina.

On Friday, Circuit Judge Deborah McCaslin ruled that he couldn't get a fair trial in Colton County and ordered the case moved outside the state's 14th Judicial Circuit.

She hasn't yet chosen a new county.

Murdoch's lawyers want Charleston because it has the largest jury pool.

Jackson was being held in the Rock Island County Jail on Tuesday night.

He will make a first appearance in Rock Island County Circuit Court when formal charges are filed by the state's attorney's office.

A detention hearing will also be held to determine whether he will remain in jail until trial or be granted pretrial release.

If granted pretrial release in Rock Island County, Jackson will be taken to the Scott County Jail as he has an arrest warrant for a petition to revoke his probation on a weapons conviction.

A December hearing date has been set for a Sterling man who is asking a Whiteside County judge to reduce his 13-year prison sentence to five years, arguing that it is excessive and that prosecutors did not honor a plea agreement.

Alfred L. Lee Jr., 33, will appear in Whiteside County Circuit Court on December 7th for a hearing on a motion to reconsider sentences handed down June 10th after he pleaded guilty to weapons and drug charges in two separate cases.

According to court documents, Whiteside County Judge Jennifer Rangel Kelly sentenced Lee to 10 years in prison on one count cap possession of fentanyl with intent to deliver more than one gram and less than 15 grams and to eight years in prison for possession of a weapon as a felon.

The sentences are being served concurrently.