Mark Tinsley, the attorney representing Mallory Beach, the victim who died after falling from a boat driven by Paul Murdaugh was branded a “tiger” after taking the stands to testify during Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial.

Alex Murdaugh had claimed he would fail to pay the amount of money the Beach family demanded. Tinsley had reportedly sued Alex at the time and also began looking into his financial situation. “When you practice law and go to a (court) roster meeting, if there are 50 cases on the roster in Hampton County, 50 or 60% are Alex’s. I know he’s making money. He can’t possibly be broke,” he said on the witness stand.

He then asked the court to allow him access to Murdaugh’s finances to force a settlement in the case. “He doesn’t want me to have access to his accounts, to see how much money he is making and actually has, so let’s enter into an agreement and settle the case. If you’re a good plaintiff’s lawyer, everything you do in a case is to put pressure on the other side,” he said.

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When he was asked how he got access to Murdaugh’s financial situation, he whipped out an order from the judge dated October 7, 2021, that he claimed allowed him to gain knowledge about Alex’s finances. Tinsley also revealed that Alex has tried to bully” him to drop the case for seeking compensation for the Beach family.

“Alex sees me and he comes across the room, gets up close in my face and says, ’Hey Bo, what’s this I’ve been hearing about what you’ve been saying, I thought we were friends?’” He continued: “I said, ‘Alex, we are friends. But if you don’t think I can’t burn your house down and that I’m not doing everything, if you think I’m not going to do everything, you’re wrong, you need to settle this case.’”

Judge Clifton Newman, who presided over Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial, which ultimately convicted the latter and sentenced him to a lifetime in prison, called Tinsley a “tiger.” “I can just imagine on that day June 7 when a lawyer was confronted and confesses to stealing over half a million dollars from a client and he has a tiger like Mark Tinsley on his tail pursuing discovery in the case involving the death of Mallory Beach. And having a father for the most part on his deathbed… I know it had to have been quite a bit going through your mind on that day,” he said.

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He was also hailed a “tiger” by several social media users:

Who is Mark Tinsley?

Mark Tinsley is an American lawyer at Gooding & Gooding, South Carolina. In 1998, he reportedly graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He specializes in the area of immigration, civil & human rights alongside general practice.

In his 25 years of practicing law, he gained fame for his role in the Mallory Beach case, where Alex Murdaugh’s youngest son Paul Murdaugh was accused of causing her accidental death after piloting the boat after a drinking session.

Tinsley is married to Stephanie Sawyer Fletcher. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer but he successfully managed to beat the disease.