MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — The man accused of murdering a Bibb County jail officer and assaulting Monroe County officers in jail several times pleaded guilty to a number of charges related to an attack on a Monroe County inmate and jail personnel Thursday.
According to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Albert Dewitt Booze stood trial in a competency hearing in Monroe County Superior Court. During the hearing, witnesses for the defense and the State testified, including two Board Certified Psychologists with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health, Dr. Nichole Gococo and Dr. Danielle Seal. Both Gococo and Seal testified that Booze was competent to stand trial.
The release says Booze pleaded guilty but mentally ill on the following charges:
- Several felony counts of Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer
- Aggravated Assault on a Peace Officer
- Interference with Government Property
- Multiple misdemeanor counts of Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer
- Assault and Battery on another Monroe County Jail inmate and Monroe County Jail Personnel
Booze was sentenced by the Monroe County Superior Court to serve 20 years in prison with 10 to be served on probation supervision.
As part of his sentence, he was also banished from the Towaliga Judicial Circuit which includes Lamar, Monroe, and Butts counties.