Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: The judge overseeing Alex Murdaugh's highly anticipated retrial for the murders of his wife and son insisted the case would proceed to trial in six months and chastised the parties for squabbling over evidence during a two-hour hearing Friday. https://cnn.it/3U0N2qI

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