The 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office says it plans to bar Alex Murdaugh, whose family ran the agency for nearly a century, from prosecuting cases on its behalf.
The office, which prosecutes cases for five counties, said it is drafting a letter to formally notify Murdaugh that he is no longer authorized to volunteer for the Solicitor’s Office, according to spokesperson Jeff Kidd.
Solicitor Duffie Stone came to the decision to send a letter after “this weekend (when) some of the accusations had taken place at the firm and he entered into rehab,” Kidd said.
The Hampton lawyer resigned from his family law firm on Friday amid allegations of misappropriated funds. Murdaugh called 911 the following day, reporting he had been shot on a rural Hampton County road. On Sunday, he announced his resignation and said he was entering drug treatment.
Murdaugh hasn’t prosecuted a case since 2019, Kidd said, but he often helped his father, the former solicitor, who died in June.
“The letter was simply a way to formalize the ending of a relationship that really has not been in effect since 2019,” according to Kidd.
The firm — Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth and Detrick — said in a statement that Murdaugh resigned Friday after it discovered the missing money. The firm also told law enforcement and the S.C. Bar about that discovery.
Two sources in the S.C. legal community previously told The Island Packet and The State newspapers that the amount missing was substantial and in excess of $1...
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