COLUMBIA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The state has issued a response after South Carolina’s Supreme Court granted after convicted killer Alex Murdaugh filed an appeal with the South Carolina Supreme Court based on allegations of jury tampering.

Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office filed for more time to respond to Murdaugh’s appeal in April and was granted 120 more days, a deadline of Aug. 8.

In a 182-page response, the state released its response and said the jury convicted Murdaugh because he was “obviously” guilty and not because three jurors heard Becky Hill’s “foolish and fleeting” comments about his upcoming testimony.

The state claimed that Hill’s “foolish and fleeting” comments to jurors don’t constitute a structural error and that any presumption of prejudice is rebuttable, sayin

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