New Trial For Convicted Murderer

{Wayne, West Virginia}…A new trial for 62 year old Stephen W. Hatfield is set for August 2013.  A Wayne County grand jury recently re-indicted Hatfield for the Mother’s Day 1988 murder of his former girlfriend, Tracey Andrews. Also shot and wounded were Dewey Myers, who was Andrews boyfriend, and her neighbor Roger Cox. Following the shooting, Hatfield fled the scene and was arrested after being shot by police in an exchange of gunfire. Hatfield pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of malicious wounding in December 1989. He was then sentenced to life without mercy for the murder count, and two 2-10 year sentences for the malicious wounding, to be served concurrently. In July 2012 a U.S. District Court Judge set aside Hatfield’s conviction over issues about his competency to enter a guilty plea or stand trial.