HATCHER v. STATE

S23A0465.

891 S.E.2d 807 (2023)

HATCHER v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: August 21, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney Samuel Zell , Zell & Zell, P.C., 1111 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Alex Martin Bernick , Fulton County District Attorney's Office, 136 Pryor Street SW, Third Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Laurie Elyse Baio , Office of the District Attorney, Eastern Judicial Circuit, 133 Montgomery Street, Suite 600, Savannah, Georgia 31401, Billy Joe Nelson, Jr. , District Attorney, Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 945 Elma G. Miles Parkway, Hinesville, Georgia 31313, Donna Renee Sims , A.D.A., Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 2309, Savannah, Georgia 31402, for Appellee.


A Liberty County jury found Perry Lee Hatcher, Jr., guilty of felony murder and cruelty to children in the third degree in connection with the shooting death of his wife, Dashea Hatcher, in the presence of their son, M. H.1 Hatcher contends that his attorney was ineffective for failing to object to...

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