<p>Prosecutors with the Department of Justice have asked the court to deny convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his sentence for financial crimes.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors argued that part of Murdaugh’s plea deal included a stipulation that he sign away his right to appeal the sentence, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/doj-asks-court-toss-alex-murdaugh-appeal-federal-financial-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Murdaugh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-murdaugh-appeals-sentence-for-financial-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled guilty</a> in September 2023 to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/alex-murdaugh-sentenced-40-years-prison-federal-financial-crimes#:~:text=Murdaugh%20was%20a%20personal%20injury,from%20his%20personal%20injury%20clients.">22 counts</a> of fraud and other financial crimes after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.</p>
<p>&#8220;For more than 15 years, he spun a complex web of exploitation, manipulation and deceit, preying on highly vulnerable victims in pursuit of his own financial gain,&#8221; federal prosecutors wrote in a motion filed in federal court last week, according to Fox.</p>
<p>Murdaugh’s attorneys and federal prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel for a 30-year sentence to run concurrently with Murdaugh’s 27-year sentence for state financial crime and consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife Maggie, and youngest son, Paul.</p>
<p>Instead, Gergel sentenced Murdaugh to 40 years in prison for the federal financial crimes, which Murdaugh’s attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-say-sentence-for-financial-crime-constitutes-cruel-and-unusual-punishment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have called</a> cruel and unusual punishment. In appealing the sentence, Murdaugh’s attorneys argued that the 40-year sentence is effectively a life sentence, given Murdaugh’s age, WCSC <a href="https://www.live5news.com/2024/07/12/murdaugh-attorneys-claim-federal-sentence-financial-crimes-unconstitutional/?outputType=amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Murdaugh, who is 55, is required to serve at least 85% of his sentence, which amounts to 34 years. However, the life expectancy of a 55-year-old man is only another 24 years, <a href="https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Social Security Administration</a>.</p>
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<p>Murdaugh’s appeal said the state guidelines should have sentenced him between 17 and 22 years for the crimes and cites three similar cases with median sentences of 17.5 years.</p>
<p>Judge Gergel sentenced Murdaugh to the longer term, stating in his ruling that Murdaugh stole money from “the most needy, vulnerable people.” This included a client who was left without the use of his arms or legs after a crash and a trust fund for children whose parents had been killed in a car crash.</p>
<p>Murdaugh pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from his previous law firm and its clients and, in addition to prison time, was ordered to pay more than $8 million in restitution to his victims.</p>
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