The South Carolina Supreme Court has sent Alex Murdaugh’s murder case back to a lower court for retrial, marking the official start of what could become another lengthy courtroom battle in the Lowcountry.A new court docket entry lists the filing as a "Remittitur" for Richard Alexander Murdaugh, dated May 29.The remittitur sends the case back to the trial level, where prosecutors, defense attorneys and the court will now begin navigating the new murder proceeding.That process will likely include scheduling hearings, revisiting pretrial motions, handling evidence disagreements and setting a possible new trial date.SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERAlex Murdaugh is led out of the Colleton County courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
He is on trial for the double slaying of his son, Paul, and wife, Maggie, in June 2021.(Mark Sims/Fox News Digital)Murdaugh, the disgraced former South Carolina attorney whose family once held enormous legal power in the state’s Lowcountry region, was previously convicted in the 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at the family’s rural hunting estate in Colleton County.SEND US A TIP HEREIn May, the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a retrial in the murder case, upending one of the state’s most closely watched convictions.Alex Murdaugh sits with his legal team as jury selection continues before his trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Jan.
24, 2023.Murdaugh faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of murder in the deaths of his wife Maggie and their son Paul.
(Joshua Boucher/The State)The formal return of the case to the lower court does not mean a retrial is imminent.South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson previously told Fox News Digital that he hopes to retry the notorious case "quickly."FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XWilson said his office is aiming to bring the case back to court within the next year, though he admitted that the timeline ...