Walter Wright received life without parole for felony murder after Oletha Brady was shot in her home. Wright gave police conflicting accounts, including that Brady shot herself and that his ankle-holstered gun discharged accidentally; a firearms examiner testified the revolver required the trigger to be pulled, and the medical examiner classified the death as homicide. The jury acquitted Wright of malice murder but convicted him of felony murder based on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The Supreme Court of Georgia held that the evidence allowed the jury to reject accident and suicide and find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It also rejected his challenge to the good-character instruction, which told jurors to consider testimony about his peacefulness, honesty, and law-abiding reputation with all the evidence when deciding reasonable doubt; the charge tracked the approved pattern instruction and did not amount to plain error. Because an objection would have been meritless, counsel was not ineffective for failing to make one, and the court affirmed.