The man accused of shooting his wife eight times outside of the couple’s Sandy Springs apartment told a judge Wednesday he had fired one attorney and hired another.
“I was just gonna say I have another attorney,” Michael Parson told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly Lee at a hearing.
Lee told Parson he needs additional time before making decisions in the courtroom, Channel 2 Action News reported.
“It’s your life and you need an opportunity to talk to your attorney of record before making these decisions,” Lee told Parson.
Parson, 42, allegedly shot his wife, Adina Parson, on April 20 just steps away from the front door of the apartment where the two lived. Adina Parson, 40, an attorney with the state’s Department of Public Health, was critically injured, but survived and continues to recover.
Michael Parson has been jailed since May, when he was arrested in Texas one day after being named the suspect in his wife's shooting. Court documents revealed that despite being married, Michael Parson was leading a double life that included being engaged to another woman.
Those allegations came as a shock to those closest to the couple, including Michael Parson’s mother, who has said the couple seemed happily married.
After spending weeks at Grady Memorial Hospital, Adina Parson was transferred to the Shepherd Center for rehabilitation. She was released from the Shepherd Center last month and is now living with an uncle, who also attended the court hearing Wednesday.
“Adina is doing much better, getting much better,” Allen Broome, Parson’s uncle, told Channel 2. “She’s doing it a day at a time.”
Broome said Parson is now speaking and communicating, something doctors weren’t sure would happen after the shooting.
“She’s going through therapy and she’s doing much better and she’s much happier now,” Broome said.
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