Lawyer: Buster Murdaugh’s Defamation Lawsuit Will Blow Up in His Face

Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix and others who produced documentaries and news articles that insinuated he was involved in the 2015 murder of his classmate—a legal maneuver that one lawyer involved in the case told The Daily Beast is sure to “backfire.”

The lawsuit comes more than a year after Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife and son in a dizzying trial that garnered international attention.

Since that conviction...