Alex Murdaugh will not be getting a new trial despite his legal team’s claims that a court clerk influenced the jury toward a guilty verdict. On Monday, January 29, Judge Jean Toal denied the petition on the grounds that she had not found the jury had truly been swayed by Rebecca Hill’s alleged remarks. “I simply do not believe that the authority of our South Carolina Supreme Court requires a new trial in a very lengthy trial such as this on the strength of some fleeting and foolish comments by a publicity influenced clerk of courts,” the judge stated at the time. “Now that I’ve read the recor…