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Alex Murdaugh Intended to Die in Botched Labor Day Shooting, Lawyer Says

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Murdaugh’s lawyers admitted their client “concocted” his story about the unknown assailant who shot him on a backroad.

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Alex Murdaugh “didn’t intend to still be alive” after the September 2021 botched assisted-suicide plot on a South Carolina backroad, his lawyers said Wednesday. During a hearing without the jury, defense attorney Dick Harpootlian said Murdaugh “concocted” his own shooting shortly after his law firm confronted him for stealing millions...

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