Stewart County Circuit Court docket: guilty pleas, probation rulings, bond revocations and scheduling

Lede Stewart County Circuit Court processed a full docket of arraignments, probation hearings, plea entries and scheduling matters in a session that produced multiple dispositions, a bail revocation order and several trial dates through August and October.

Nut graf The court recorded plea agreements, reinstatements of probation with conditions, continuances and at least one bond revocation motion granted; judges or counsel announced trial dates for cases set in May and August. The session included a furlough arrangement that will send one defendant to a residential program, several appointments of counsel for indigent defendants and remands of defendants to custody where bond was revoked.

Body Among the docketed matters: the court accepted a guilty plea from David Lee Parr to a fentanyl possession charge (case 2020‑CR‑18B) and sentenced him to eight years as a Range II offender, suspended to supervised probation with credit for time served, and dismissed remaining counts. The court also accepted several negotiated dispositions to revoke and reinstate probation with extensions as follows: Gerald P. Dodson Jr. admitted a probation violation and was revoked to time served, then reinstated and extended for one year with an alcohol‑and‑drug assessment requirement.

The court granted a state request to revoke bond for Josiah Nixon after the arrest record showed multiple new charges alleged to have been committed while he was on conditional release; the judge appointed counsel (Crystal Wilkerson) and set a speedy‑trial date (May 13). The court also set a trial date for Lester Gavin Williams and appointed a public defender after Williams reported he had recently been laid off and could not afford counsel; Williams’s trial was set for mid‑May.

In probation‑related actions, the court approved a plan in a probation violation matter for Kelly Lynn Babcock: the judge accepted a plea and arranged to delay sentence to permit a one‑year furlough placement at the Hope Center program (transportation and bed‑availability to be confirmed), then set a review date in August. Another probationer, Sarah Hale, was conditionally allowed to seek inpatient treatment; the court discussed whether to furlough her for the remaining three months of a one‑year consecutive sentence and asked for more information…