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Gloria Williams was back in court Thursday for a pre-trial hearing, during which a Nov. 13 trial date was set, court records state. She will face one more pre-trial Nov. 7.
Williams is slated to go on trial Nov. 13, although her defense attorney said she and the prosecutor are trying to negotiate a plea agreement.
Williams stood silent before judge Steven Whittington for less than a minute as her attorney asked for another pre-trial hearing, this time in September.
Williams defense asked for a continuance in order to go through more than 1,000 pages of discovery. The trial had been slated to start in November, but a judge has now set jury selection for February 13th.
Gloria Williams, the woman from Walterboro who allegedly kidnapped a child in Jacksonville and raised it as her own, had a court date Tuesday.
The judge passed her pre-trial hearing until January 4, 2018. The final pre-trial hearing is expected on February 6, 2018 with jury selection on February 12, 2018.
Kamiyah talks about her new life.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-kidnapped-florida-hospital-newborn-describes-life/story?id=51892226
The Florida teen snatched at birth and raised under a false identity has issued an extraordinary plea for leniency as her kidnapper 'mom' prepares to stand trial next month - telling DailyMailTV: 'It's not like she tortured me.'
Last year, Kamiyah Mobley learned that she had been living a lie for 18 years, but she still refuses to label Gloria Williams a criminal for stealing her from her parents from the hospital when she was just eight hours old and posing as her biological mother.
'Don't get me wrong, I do feel like it was wrong. But we talked about it and I can understand at the time what was going on,' said Kamiyah, now aged 19. 'I sympathize with her, I'm not mad at her - of course I forgive her.
As thrilled as she was to meet her biological parents, there was never any likelihood that Alexis Manigo would slip effortlessly into Kamiyah Moberly's shoes and leave her kidnapper languishing unloved and alone in a jail cell.
'I know her and she's not a criminal,' she told DailyMailTV. 'It was emotional seeing her behind bars and not being able to touch her and hug her, knowing she's not coming home and I'm probably not going to see her for a very long time after that.
'To the world I was a victim but I'm too headstrong to personally call myself a victim. I do feel a crime was done but I don't feel comfortable calling myself a victim.'
Manigo told the Daily Mail she has spent the past year forging new ties with her biological parents in Jacksonville -- Shanara Mobley, 36, and Craig Aiken, 42 -- as well as getting to know the numerous siblings she never realized she had.
She said she has already formed an "incredible bond" with Aiken, staying at his Jacksonville home for weeks at a time and celebrating Christmas with him, his wife Shannon, 42, and her eight half-siblings.
But she said her defense of Williams has made it harder for Manigo to rebuild her relationship with Mobley, who last year wrote on Facebook: "The tears won't stop. I see my baby girl wanting this lady in her life and not me."
"It's been harder for my mother to cope. We are working on our relationship. I don't like to define which one is my mother, I like to be respectful of both parties."
The attorneys have been able to agree on releasing some personal banking records, with the account numbers hidden, and to not use any medical records unless they are brought up during trial.
But the television stations' attorneys are arguing that information, including police reports and photos from the home where Williams raised Manigo should be released.
Aho could make a decision as soon as Monday's arguments conclude or later in the week.
A plea deal for the woman accused of kidnapping a Jacksonville baby and raising the little girl as her own daughter for 18 years could be coming as soon as Monday.
Jury selection for Gloria Williams' trial was supposed to start next week, but in court on Thursday, Action News Jax learned it has been canceled.
Among the information released this week were files that show detectives tried to get a copy of Manigos birth certificate from Colleton County High School, but werent able to verify the authenticity of it.
Investigators said they found an altered birth certificate in Williams' home with cutouts in a separate envelope, which is likely how she created the certificate on file with the school.
They said they also learned the Social Security number the school had on file for her belonged to Morris Grogan, who was born June 11, 1939, and died in May 1983.
Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as a baby in Jacksonville in 1998 and spent her life as Alexis Manigo in South Carolina, will have her story told on "Iyanla: Fix My Life."
The show said in a promotional video that Mobley will appear on the show's season premiere on March 3.
The woman accused of kidnapping a newborn from a Jacksonville hospital 20 years ago and raising the girl as her own pleaded guilty Monday morning to charges of kidnapping and interference with custody.
In exchange for pleading guilty, Gloria Williams is asking for a sentence of between zero and 22 years on the kidnapping charge and zero to five years or less on the interference charge. She will be able to serve both sentences at the same time.
Kamiyah talks about her new life.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-kidnapped-florida-hospital-newborn-describes-life/story?id=51892226
Gloria Williams will be back in court Thursday morning; as a judge hears testimony about how long the woman who kidnapped a Jacksonville newborn in 1998 should spend behind bars.
Judge Marianne Aho, who said the sentencing hearing could take two days, has said she will announce her sentencing decision in a few weeks.
As part of her plea agreement, Williams faces the possibility of being sentenced zero to 22 years in prison compared to the possible life sentence if her case went to trial and she was found guilty under kidnapping and interference with custody charges.
Powerful testimony Thursday from the kidnapped victim's biological parents could be the reason Williams, 52, could face up to 22 years in prison, according to a local attorney.