CHATSWORTH, Ga. — Prosecutors are expecting a lengthy trial for one of two men charged with sexually assaulting women at a residential substance abuse recovery center in Murray County.

A jury of eight men and four women will hear the state’s case against Jeffery Dewayne Bully beginning Monday in Superior Court in Chatsworth, with the trial expected to last into the next week. In the indictment handed down by the Murray County grand jury in February 2015, 57 witnesses were listed.

Bully was indicted on five counts of rape, six counts of sexual assault of a probationer, sexual battery, aggravated sodomy and criminal attempt to commit a sexual assault of a probationer.

Bully was indicted along with Bobby Edwards of Jasper, who faces two counts of sexual assault of a probationer and sexual battery charges.

According to Murray County detectives at the time of Bully’s extradition from Oklahoma in August 2015, Bully ran the substance abuse recovery center and Edwards was an employee there. Treatment at the center was mandated for the women as part of their sentencing for drug crimes by courts in metro Atlanta.

Edwards’ case is scheduled for a calendar call in Superior Court in October.

District Attorney Bert Poston said the state is ready to seek convictions of Bully.

“We are ready to begin the trial on Monday and expect the presentation of evidence to take more than one week, concluding during the week of June 27,” Poston said. “Assistant District Attorney Ben Kenemer will be presenting the evidence for the state assisted by Murray County Sheriff’s Office Detective Jimmy Davenport. Mr. Bully is represented by local attorney Mike Corbin and is, of course, presumed innocent under the law until proven guilty.”

Multiple messages left for Corbin seeking comment were not immediately returned.

Davenport said at the time of Bully’s arrest the investigation began with a call from one of the residents regarding living conditions and food at the facility.

“When we began talking to some of the women, it grew from there,” he said.

Judge Cindy Morris will preside over the trial.