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The general district court session was brief on August 23 with customary traffic offenses making up most of the docket.

However, Judge John Alexander levied a $500 fine in a 1979 drug case to show that he meant business. Mark Christopher Billet of Amissville and Haymarket was charged with possession of marijuana in September, 1979. Last week he was fined $500 plus $35 court costs. His one year probation was also revoked.

Billet was also charged with failure to appear in October, 1980. That charge was dismissed.

In other cases heard that day the following judgments were made:

Gary Lee Bright, Sperry ville, drunk in public, $10/$20.

Otis W. Jordan, Jr. Amissville, DWI, reduced to drunk in public, $100/$20. Same, driving on suspected

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