Alex Murdaugh appears in court for the first time since double murder sentencing

Murdaugh's attorneys have accused the court clerk in his double murder trial of jury tampering

Alex Murdaugh appeared in court Thursday for the first time since he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife and son on financial crimes charges involving two co-conspirators.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters outlined the 101 counts spanning numerous indictments against the 55-year-old disbarred attorney, who wore an orange prion-issue jumpsuit in the  Beaufort, South Carolina, courtroom. He's accused of stealing a total of $8.8 million including more than $4 million in insurance payments intended for the family of his late housekeeper Gloria Satterfield.

Judge Clifton Newman, who also presided over his murder trial, set a trial date of Nov. 27 for the Satterfield case over the objection of Murdaugh's attorneys.

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Alex Murdaugh appears in court in Beaufort, South Carolina, on his state financial crimes case. It is his first court appearance since he was sentenced to two life terms for the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in June 2021.  (Fox News Digital)

Satterfield died in 2018 from complications of a slip and fall after tumbling on the steps of the family’s main residence at Moselle.

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Former Palmetto Bank CEO Russell Laffitte also appeared in court before Murdaugh on charges he conspired with Murdaugh to help rip off his clients.

The convicted killer's former friend and co-conspirator Corey Fleming is also expected to appear for sentencing. 

He pleaded guilty to 23 charges for conspiring with Murdaugh to steal from former clients and friends. 

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The appearance comes the day before the South Carolina Attorney General's Office is scheduled to respond to an explosive motion for a new trial filed by Murdaugh's attorneys last week accusing Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill of jury tampering in his double murder trial.

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Newman sentenced Murdaugh in March to two life terms in prison for gunning down his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul, 22, in June 2021. Hill read the jury's verdict. 

Murdaugh has maintained his innocence and is appealing.

FOX Nation aired the hit docuseries "The Fall of the House of Murdaugh" which featured an interview with Hill recounting her role in the blockbuster six-week trial. 

Murdaugh's only living son, Buster, also spoke exclusively with FOX Nation and said his father did not receive a fair trial. 

"I think it was a tilted table from the beginning," he told Martha MacCallum. "And I think, unfortunately, a lot of the jurors felt that way prior to when they had to deliberate. It was predetermined in their minds, prior to when they ever heard any shred of evidence that was given in that room."