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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Juror selection Monday for Bulloch County’s first jury trials in a year Also Ogeechee Circuit’s first after 12-month COVID halt
More than 55 Bulloch County adults were summoned as potential jurors for Superior Court jury selection beginning next Monday, when Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Harold D. Melton signed his order Tuesday allowing jury trials to resume.
Four days, March 23-26, are marked on the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Superior Courts calendar for a jury trial in Bulloch County. If it occurs as expected, it will be the first jury trial in the four-county circuit since Melton’s initial COVID-19 pandemic emergency order halted all jury proceedings one year ago.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. 15 murder cases pending in Bulloch Superior Court D.A.: Courts making some progress despite lingering halt on jury trials District Attorney Daphne Totten
Four individuals face murder charges under indictments returned by a Bulloch County grand jury earlier this month. The total number of homicide cases now awaiting court action because of violent deaths that occurred in Bulloch County, including Statesboro, is 15.
That count, which includes some unindicted cases and even some for which arrests have been made since the grand jury met, is included in a total of 27 homicide cases pending in the four-county Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, said District Attorney Daphne Totten. Effingham County has seven homicide cases pending, Screven County has three, and Jenkins County has one ho
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The year 2020 drew to a close with no word from the court on felony-murder defendant William Marcus “Marc” Wilson’s second chance at being released on bond.
Wilson, 22, is charged with causing the June 14 death of Haley Hutcheson, 17, and also faces five aggravated assault charges and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Hutcheson was riding in a pickup truck on Veterans Memorial Parkway in Statesboro with four other young people when she was hit by a bullet Wilson allegedly fired from his car. His defense attorneys have asserted in preliminary and bond hearings that he was defending himself and his girlfriend from a racist attack by occupants of the truck.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Two women become chief local prosecutors Totten sworn in as Ogeechee Circuit D.A.; Findley as Bulloch County solicitor-general Daphne Totten, left, is sworn in as Ogeechee Circuit district attorney by Bulloch County Probate Judge Lorna DeLoach, right, as Totten’s husband, Dirk, holds the Bible and their daughter Kendall accompanies them on the courthouse steps. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Officials, family and friends gathered in front of the south-facing steps of the Bulloch County Courthouse at 1 p.m. Monday for the swearing-in of Daphne Jarriel Totten as the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit’s new district attorney and Catherine Sumner Findley as the county’s new solicitor-general.