A judge has revoked house arrest for the man who authorities say agreed to kill disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh so he could get a life insurance settlement for Murdaugh’s son but only grazed his head.
“He said ‘I ain't got no money.' He said it twice," deputy state attorney general Creighton Waters said in court Thursday.
Defense lawyers said many of the trips were from a plant where Smith would collect industrial waste. They said he visited stores to get prescription medicine or supplies for his truck and private homes to work odd jobs or help the father of his girlfriend clear fallen trees. They promised they had a “come to Jesus" discussion about following the judge's rules.
“Mr. Smith has also willfully violated the house arrest condition of his bond," Newman said. “”His bond is revoked. He is put back in jail."Smith met Murdaugh when he hired the lawyer to handle a lawsuit over a work injury. Prosecutors said Smith started cashing checks to hide Murdaugh's theft of money from clients — at least 437 of them worth $2.4 million over eight years. Many of the checks were just under the threshold where a bank would have had to report the transaction.
Smith has denied all the charges against him. He said he did not try to shoot Murdaugh in the assisted suicide attempt, saying instead the gun fired as he tried to wrestle it out of Murdaugh's hands. Murdaugh first told police someone shot at him as he tried to change a flat tire before revealing the insurance plan, authorities said.
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