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TJC 2018 Annual Report

FORSYTH, Ga. — A middle Georgia District Attorney is getting settled in after almost a year of deployment to Iraq. This was his fourth deployment in the National Guard, including his second to Iraq. As of Saturday, he’s been back a week. And for now, he’s just getting used to the changes. “While you’re gone for a year, they are…

Towaliga Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorneys Leslie Tilson and Carolee Reed Jordan obtained convictions on two cases this past week. Billy Jones was tried and convicted of aggravated assault and was sentenced to 20 years to serve in the state penitentiary and Mack Rutland was tried and convicted of misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to serve 12 months in the…

Jonathan Adams is a Lieutenant Colonel in Georgia Army National Guard and the District Attorney for the Towaliga Judicial Court. “Your job as the District Attorney or the Assistant District Attorney is to do justice,” said Jonathan Adams. In the courtroom, Towaliga District Attorney Jonathan Adams tries to get justice for the people in Monroe, Lamar, and Butts County, but…

The Texas man accused in the 1999 death of a Stockbridge woman who’s body was found in Butts County has pleaded guilty to malice murder and received a sentence of life in prison. Fuquah Dewalt Cashaw, 47, had been facing a possible death sentence if convicted of the murder of Heather Davidson, 22, whose body was found along Kermit Williams…