Criminal Defense Attorney for Hart County

The Hart County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia State Patrol regularly patrol and aggressively enforce traffic laws on the vehicles that travel through Hart County along local highways. This traffic law enforcement in the form of traffic stops oftentimes leads to seizures of individuals and searches of vehicles as law enforcement investigates for crimes such as DUI and felony drug possession. 

Most Hart County DUI cases start in the Probate Court of Hart County, in the city of Hartwell. However, an individual charged in the Probate Court of Hart County has the right to transfer their DUI alcohol, DUI drugs, or DUI prescription medications case to the Superior Court of Hart County to demand a jury trial. 

In either a DUI case where a jury trial is requested, a non-traffic misdemeanor offense, such as domestic violence, or a felony offense, such as drug possession, drug possession with intent to distribute, drug trafficking, or vehicular homicide, the case is handled in the Superior Court of Hart County. The Superior Court of Hart County is located in the downtown Hartwell courthouse at 185 W. Franklin Street. Prosecution for DUIs in the Probate Court of Hart County and for all charges in the Superior Court of Hart County are handled by the District Attorney of Hart County, who has a local office in Hartwell. Hart County shares a DA with Oglethorpe County, Madison County, Franklin County, and Elbert County. 

As an experienced criminal defense attorney, Jason Slider has been representing individuals charged with crimes, including DUI alcohol, DUI drugs, DUI prescription medications, Possession of Drugs, Possession of Drugs with Intent to Distribute and domestic violence in Hart County since 2007. Individuals charged with crimes want a criminal defense attorney who knows the area and the people involved to make informed decisions about how to handle their case. Jason Slider is familiar with the District Attorney of the Northern Circuit and the assistant District Attorneys that in practice handle the prosecution of all the cases from their Hartwell office. Jason understands what legal arguments to make in representing his clients for their criminal offense and is a member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National College of DUI Defense. He is familiar with the DUI laws and vehicle search and seizure laws, which are often issues that arise following a traffic stop which leads to an arrest for drug charges. If you have been charged with a criminal offense in Hart County, call Jason Slider, a misdemeanor and felony lawyer, and Slider Law today at 706-208-1514.