Augusta GA DUI Lawyer - Woman alleged to have hit deputy's patrol car pleads not guilty

Augusta GA DUI Lawyer - Woman alleged to have hit deputy's patrol car pleads not guilty

by Mark Millican

The driver of a car that hit a Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s patrol car in Tunnel Hill in June pleaded not guilty to several charges in Probate Court on Wednesday,

Angela Renee Norman, 40, of 2853 Keith Road in Ringgold, will now face a bench trial on Oct. 7 after being cited for DUI, driving too fast for conditions and failing to stop for a stop sign. The Georgia State Patrol worked the wreck and said Norman was driving a 2007 Nissan Altima and was in the car alone.

Deputy Randy Cole, who was traveling on Highway 201, complained of pain to his neck and an arm after the collision and went to Hamilton Medical Center.

“He sustained a slight fracture in his hand and was on light duty for about three days, that’s all,” said Maj. John Gibson with the sheriff’s office.

In Norman’s initial appearance in Probate Court on Aug. 19, she pleaded guilty without an attorney representing her. But after Judge Sheri Blevins spoke with her about her right to have an attorney, Norman withdrew the plea and the case was continued to give her time to contact an attorney.

Public defender Lee Ann Feeley represented Norman in court on Wednesday, and afterwards said she did not want to comment on the case. Blevins will rule on the evidence and testimony at the bench trial, a Probate Court spokeswoman said. The officer who wrote the citation will be called, she said, and it is “likely” that Cole will also be summoned to testify.

Tunnel Hill Police Chief Roy Brunson was on the scene shortly after the wreck, and said at the time Norman was “leaving the park at a high rate of speed and ran the stop sign at the park entrance (and) the deputy did not have time to react and get out of the way.”

Norman spent the night in the Whitfield County Jail after the wreck and was released on bond the next morning. A phone number for her could not be found.




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