DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE | OCMULGEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

On November 4, 2019, Superior Court Judge Terry Massey sentenced Torleados Darvell Butler to 40 years to serve 20 years in prison, and banished Mr. Butler from the Ocmulgee Circuit for the term of his sentence.  Mr. Butler entered a non-negotiated plea to aggravated as...

 We are pleased to welcome our newest Assistant District Attorney, Faith D. Worley, to our team. Faith interned in our Greene County Office prior to being hired as a Law School Graduate in May of 2019. Faith has officially passed her Georgia Bar Exam, and on October 31...

A Hancock county jury convicted Diante Lamont Thompson today, after a hour of deliberations, for the murder of Bobby Jermaine Ricks. The evidence showed that Thompson worked with other Blood gang members in Hancock State Prison in causing Ricks death by stabbing.

On October 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the 2017 murder conviction of Frank Don Causey.  Frank Don Causey was convicted of murdering Lydia Huggins Ivanditti in her Eatonton home on December 2, 2016.  The case was prosecuted by District Attorney Stephen...

 On October 11, 2019, the Jones County District Attorney's Office hosted a Domestic Violence Awareness Banquet. We, and other community leaders, gathered with members of the community to discuss and bring awareness about domestic violence. In hopes to make people under...

On the eve of trial, Anthony Bernard Collins, Jr. entered his plea of guilty to Aggravated Battery and Robbery by Force for his early morning attack on a jogger in Putnam County.  He was sentenced in accordance to the State's recommendation for a total of thirty (30) y...

Today the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld a Hancock County jury's verdict convicting Clarence Crayton of Aggravated Assault.

The Georgia Court of Appeals today affirmed the conviction of Jose Leandro Mendez Morales for Rape and Aggravated Assault.  A Putnam County jury convicted the Defendant in 2011.

DeMarco Draughn, Benny Hayward, and Xavier Levatte were convicted today by a Hancock County jury for the stabbing death of Bobby Jermaine Ricks.  Judge Brenda Trammell sentenced all three defendants to Life Imprisonment without the possibility of Parole.