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Chess games and a new job: How Alex Murdaugh is spending life behind bars

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Alex Murdaugh is in protective custody in a maximum-security prison and only interacts with people who live or work in his unit, his lawyer and state records say.

Murdaugh 's lawyer says he is playing chess and working as a wardkeeper’s assistant in a state prison protective unit.

The South Carolina Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal for a new murder trial last week and could overturn his double life sentence.

Last week , the state Supreme Court agreed to hear Murdaugh ’s appeal for a new murder trial based on allegations that a court clerk tampered with the jury that convicted him.

Defense attorneys allege Colleton County court clerk Becky Hill told the 12 -person jury not to believe evidence and pressured a swift guilty verdict.

Hill has denied the allegations.

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