LOL the clerk is just getting in more and more hot water. Her co-author is parting ways with her because he discovered a paragraph plagiarized from a BBC article. She admitted it. I am now beginning to feel a bit sorry for her, but I know I shouldn't really.
Court Clerk Rebecca Hill's co-author of "Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders" says he recently discovered that the preface was similar to a BBC News article.
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From the above link -
He added that he was "blindsided" by the actions, and that the book is now ceasing publication.
Gordon said he discovered the duplicated writing while reviewing emails of Hill's made public by Colleton County officials last week in response to
news outlets' public records request. The emails were taken from Hill's county account and dated from January to early December.
In an email exchange in February between Hill and a BBC News reporter, the journalist had "shared a long excerpt from an upcoming article about the Alex Murdaugh trial," according to Gordon. He then noticed the article, which was eventually
published March 3, was similar to a 12-page passage in the book's preface.
In one Feb. 20 email from the reporter to Hill, an attached text includes: "To know South Carolina's Lowcountry is to know the Murdaugh family name. For 86 unbroken years, 1920 to 2006, a Murdaugh presided as the chief prosecutor for South Carolina's Fourteenth Judicial Circuit. It was the longest such stretch of family control in United States history."
Hill's book, which was published in July, includes a section: "To know South Carolina's Lowcountry is to know the Murdaugh family name. For eighty-six unbroken years, from 1920 to 2006, a Murdaugh presided as the chief prosecutor for South Carolina's Fourteenth Judicial Circuit. It was the longest such stretch of family control in United States history."
Gordon said that when he confronted Hill about the similarities, she admitted to it, citing deadline pressures.
"As a veteran journalist myself, I cannot excuse her behavior, nor can I condone it," Gordon said.
“I can’t be associated with anything like plagiarism and will no longer partner with Becky Hill on any projects,” Gordon said. “I’d like to apologize to our readers, and publicly to the BBC and the reporter.”
