Burglary charge vacated and dismissed

              A court officer says Oconee General Sessions Court records are showing that a plea to burglary associated with the shooting death of an elderly Seneca woman three years ago has been vacated and dismissed.  It means that for a young man, Hunter Lee Hunnicutt, no additional prison time for his part in the death of Geraldine Castle March 7, 2019 at a home on Seneca’s Maple Avenue.  In General Sessions Court proceedings since 2019, the court learned that Hunnicutt, 17 at the time, accompanied an older co-defendant, Decota Castle Brown, to the Maple Avenue home with the intent to burglarize and steal weaponry.  As spelled out in the account provided by the prosecutors’ office, “Upon finding Brown’s grandmother in the home, Brown shot her three times.  Mrs. Castle died four days later….”  A jury determined Brown’s guilt and the judge sent Brown to prison for consecutive sentences amounting to 70 years.  No parole is possible for Brown.  In the case of Hunnicutt,  he was sentenced  to seven years and credited with more than 1,000 days in jail awaiting trial after cooperating as a prosecuting witness.  Hunnicutt’s attorney, David Plowden, described his client as young and immature and a fool for associating with the wrong kinds of people.