Hall v. Warden, Lee Arrendale State Prison

Michelle Hall is serving a life sentence in Georgia state prison for shooting her husband to death during an argument in their home. The only other person in the house at the time was Ms. Hall’s eight-year-old daughter, Alyssa, who was in another room and heard but did not see the argument and the shooting.

At her trial approximately a year later, Ms. Hall used the audio recording of the statement she made when she called the 911 operator and the video recording of her statements to law enforcement to raise the defenses of justification and accident. Her defenses were that she and her husband…