SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — Public Defender David Dunn ordered his assistant to lie down and play dead.
Michael Kelley complied, crouching onto the floor of the Chattooga County courtroom in front of the jury Tuesday afternoon. He lay on his right side, head on the floor, arms stretched away from him.
Dunn, who acts at The Ringgold Playhouse for fun, had a reason for the theatrics. Using Kelley as a dummy, he wanted to show the jury how deputies found the dead body of William Robert Packer last summer.
Deborah WilkinsDunn’s client, Deborah Elaine Wilkins, is on trial for killing Packer, her boyfriend. She faces life in prison on charges of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault.
Wilkins’ trial is expected to resume at 9 a.m. today, weather permitting.