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Wilkes County
Wilkes County is located east of Athens, Georgia, and right next to Oglethorpe County, and many people drive through Wilkes County on their way to other locations throughout Georgia on Interstate 20 and Highway 78. The Wilkes County Sheriff's Department and Georgia State Patrol actively patrol the roadways of Wilkes County, especially since the Georgia State Patrol has a post located in Washington. These multitude of officers leads to multiple traffic stops that escalate in to DUI arrests or vehicle searches leading to drug charges.
In Wilkes County misdemeanor Driving Under the Influence charges, including DUI alcohol, DUI drugs, and DUI prescription medications, are prosecuted in the Wilkes County Probate Court, located in Washington. The Wilkes County Probate Court has a part time prosecutor that handles the prosecution of their DUI and other traffic cases. If an individual is charged with a felony DUI, another felony or non-traffic misdemeanor offense along with their DUI charge, or demands a jury trial in their misdemeanor DUI case, the case is prosecuted in the Wilkes County Superior Court by the District Attorney of Wilkes County.
DUI cases in which a jury trial has been requested, drug offenses, misdemeanor and felony domestic violence charges, all other felony offenses, including felony DUI and felony fleeing and attempting to elude, and all other non-traffic related misdemeanors are prosecuted in the Superior Court of Wilkes County by the District Attorney of Wilkes County. Felony drug offenses in Wilkes County include drug possession, drug possession with intent to distribute, and drug trafficking. Domestic violence charges prosecuted in the Superior Court of Wilkes County include battery, simple assault, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and aggravated stalking. Wilkes County is part of the Toombs Judicial Circuit, covering multiple counties including Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro and Warren, and the District Attorney of Wilkes County maintains an office located in their city of Thomson office.
Jason Slider has extensive experience handling cases in Wilkes County and is familiar with the courts and the prosecutors in Washington-Wilkes, both the part time prosecutor and the full time District Attorney.
If you are facing a DUI, drug charge, or domestic violence charge in Wilkes County, call Slider Law today at (706) 208-1514.
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