Murder defendant wants new attorney

A man awaiting trial in Oconee County on the charge of murder wants new representation.  Deputy Solicitor Lindsey Simmons said yesterday that defendant Decota Brown wants a new lawyer.  He’s charged with killing his grandmother, Geraldine Castle, in a Seneca home in March 2019.  But the trial is in an indefinite delay as the chief justice, influenced by spiking COVID cases, has suspended all jury trials.  A co-defendant in the Castle shooting death entered a guilty plea last year, but sentencing was deferred.