Barksdale looks forward to four more years as DA

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DISTRICT ATTORNEY
  • Wright Barksdale at his desk in the Jones County District Attorney’s Office. DEBBIE LURIE-SMITH/Staff
    Wright Barksdale at his desk in the Jones County District Attorney’s Office. DEBBIE LURIE-SMITH/Staff
When qualifying ended at noon March 8, the Ocumulgee Judicial Circuit district attorney had no opposition, which means another four years in the office for T. Wright Barksdale III.The district attorney turned 34 two days after taking office in 2021, making him one of the youngest to do so, and he walked into a court system that had been brought to a halt by a pandemic with two death penalty cases…

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