The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is asking the state Supreme Court to unseal secret court transcripts tied to the removal of Alex Murdaugh’s "egg juror," arguing the records should be made public now that the disgraced legal scion has been granted a new murder trial.In a motion filed Thursday, prosecutors asked the high court to retract the state’s previous objection and lift restrictions for the on-camera hearing transcript that led to the dismissal of Juror 785, identified in prior filings as Myra Crosby, before deliberations in Murdaugh’s 2023 double-murder trial.The motion marks the latest twist in the fallout from the once-powerful South Carolina attorney’s overturned convictions for the June 2021 killings of his wife, Maggie, and their younger son, Paul, at the family’s sprawling Moselle hunting estate.Myra Crosby earned the nickname "Egg Juror" after asking a judge if she could retrieve her dozen eggs and purse before being dismissed from a case, prompting laughter in the courtroom.(Andrew J.
Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool/ Fox Nation)Crosby became known as the "egg juror" after she was removed from the panel.As Judge Clifton Newman dismissed her from the case, Crosby asked if she could retrieve her purse and a dozen eggs that another juror had brought to court to give away, prompting laughter in the courtroom.ALEX MURDAUGH MURDER SAGA LANDS RIGHT BACK WHERE IT STARTED BEFORE NEXT LOWCOUNTRY COURTROOM BATTLEThe South Carolina Supreme Court reversed Murdaugh’s two murder convictions on May 13.
The remittitur was issued May 29, formally sending the murder case back to the lower court for further proceedings.Prosecutors noted that, as of the filing, no circuit court judge had yet been appointed to preside over Murdaugh's new murder proceedings.Myra Crosby, known as the Egg Juror, exits the Colleton County courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on March 2, 2023, after being dismissed for misconduct from the Alex Murdaugh double mu...