The court-appointed attorney representing a man charged in the 2022 death of a Bibb County deputy has been removed from the case.
Austin Patrick Hall sent the judge a handwritten letter stating his attorney had not been communicating with him enough and asked the attorney be removed. Lee then entered a motion saying “there has been irretrievable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship.”
The judge granted the motion.
Hall is charged in the death of deputy Brad Johnson, who died after being shot during a police chase. Investigator Chris Poole was also shot. He was treated and released from the hospital.
Hall pleaded not guilty to three counts of capital murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of firing into an occupied vehicle. If convicted, he faces the death penalty.
The capital murder trial is set for September 8, 2025.
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