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[Angel Who Cares]

Walk planned in Bay Area for girl missing for 21 years
January 26, 2010
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Twenty one years after Ilene Misheloff went missing, authorities are still looking for answers.

A candlelight walk and prayer service will be held in honor of Ilene on Thursday, two days before the 21st anniversary of the girl's disappearance, according to a Dublin police news release.

Ilene (left photo) was walking home from Wells Middle School on Jan. 30, 1989 when she was abducted. There is a $100,000 reward being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Ilene's kidnappers.

A glimmer of hope came in the case last fall, when Jaycee Lee Dugard, missing for 18 years, turned up alive. Authorities searching the Antioch home of her alleged abductors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, looked for clues in several missing child cases, including Ilene's, but never found evidence of a link between the Garridos and the disappearance of other young girls.

For more information about Ilene's case, call the Ilene Mischeloff Recovery Center at (925) 829-6682 or visit www.find-ilene.org.

Article:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/crime/archives/2010/01/twenty-one-year.html
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Dugard's Daughters Finally Get Birth Certificates
Updated 7:23 AM PST, Wed, Jan 27, 2010
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The documents, ordered by a judge in December, list the girls' birth dates as August 1994 and November 1997. They are now 15 and 12 years old. Their names were listed also but have not been released. One of them is a name that has been reported, the other is not, according to KCRA.

Phillip Garrido is listed as the father and his Antioch home is listed as the place of birth.

The prosecution will use the records to establish a timeline of sex abuse, but some legal experts think Garrido's lawyers might try to challenge the validity of the birth certificate.


Article:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...-Finally-Get-Birth-Certificates-82787552.html
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Jaycee Dugard's Girls Get Birth Certificates
Documents For Daughters Of Kidnapping Victim Ordered In December
POSTED: 10:58 am EST January 27, 2010
UPDATED: 11:24 am EST January 27, 2010
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The certificates list the official names of the two girls, but KCRA will not print them. One of the names listed is different from what has been widely reported. Both of the girls' last names are listed as "Dugard" on the documents.

The birth certificates list birth dates of August 1994 and November 1997, making one child 15 and the other 12.

Kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido is listed as the girls' father. The birth address is listed as the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

Sacramento attorney Johnny Griffin said the prosecution will use the birth records to establish a timeline against Phillip Garrido.

"These allegations of the sexual acts occurred during a certain period of time," Griffin said.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido are expected back in court Feb. 26.

Video: Jaycee Dugard's Girls Get Birth Certificates 2:34
http://www.wptz.com/video/22354065/

Article:
http://www.wptz.com/news/22354069/detail.html
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Dugard daughters' birth certificates released: Phillip Garrido is father
1/27/10
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The birth certificates of Jaycee Dugard's two daughters were made available Wednesday and they confirm what has been widely reported: kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido is the father of the two girls.

The certificates list Phillip Greg Garrido as the father and Jaycee Lee Dugard as the mother. The older girl was born in August, 1994, and the younger in November, 1997.

The certificates say the girls were born on Walnut Avenue in Antioch. That is where Garrido is suspected of keeping Dugard and the girls in his backyard until they were discovered last August.

Video: Birth Certificates Phillip Garrido Is Father Of The Two Girls 1:52
http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?bctid=63698152001

Article:
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=74098&catid=2
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Jaycee Dugard case: New birth certificates issued for girls
Posted: 01/27/2010 06:22:56 PM PST
Updated: 01/27/2010 06:39:50 PM PST
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Jaycee Dugard's two girls now have birth certificates, with both listing Dugard and Phillip Garrido as their parents, and their birthplace as the home outside Antioch where authorities say Garrido and his wife, Nancy, confined Jaycee to a secret backyard lair after snatching her in 1991.

The certificates list birth dates for the girls in August 1994 and November 1997, making them 15 and 12. Dugard gave birth to the first at age 14. At the time, Phillip Garrido was 43 and on parole following his 1988 release from federal prison for the kidnapping of a woman he also raped in a Reno storage shed.

Bay Area News Group is not naming the girls, who authorities say lived in a backyard warren of tents, sheds and outbuildings, never going to school or seeing a doctor. Contra Costa County issued the birth certificates last month under a special state process for people who never received them.

Article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14281446?nclick_check=1

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Video: Jaycee Dugard's Girls Get Birth Certificates 2:34
http://www.kirotv.com/video/22354065/index.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Video: Dugard birth certificates 7:18
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[Angel Who Cares]

Exclusive: Ex-Garrido attorney Gilbert Maines focus of tax fraud probe
1/29/10
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Gilbert Maines, who is fighting his dismissal as Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney, is under investigation for felony tax evasion.

Maines, 69, confirmed to News10 that roughly 20 agents from the state Franchise Tax Board served a warrant at his rural home Friday morning seeking evidence of a felony. Maines said he was forced to wait outside in the rain in his bathrobe while the search was conducted.

Maines said the agents seized computer files and the laptop he carries to court. He insisted they would find no evidence of a crime. "I've been doing my taxes the same way for 35 years," Maines told News10. "Sometimes I skip a few years and then pay all at once."

Phimister admitted in court last week that Nancy Garrido signed an affidavit claiming she still wants to be represented by Maines, but insisted a judge has the right to remove an attorney if he feels it is in the client's best interest.

Maines initially challenged his removal to the presiding judge of the El Dorado County Superior Court, Suzanne Kingsbury. Kingsbury is the judge who signed the search warrant executed Friday.

Maines was asked if he sees any possible connection between the Garrido case, Friday's raid and this week's removal from the indigent panel. "I don't believe in coincidences," he replied.

Article:
http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=74117&catid=2

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Nancy Garrido's Ex-Attorney Fired By County
Jan 27, 2010 11:30 pm
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The former attorney of Nancy Garrido has already been thrown off the case and investigated for not filing taxes, but El Dorado County on Wednesday sent him a letter telling him he has been fired.

Gilbert Maines said he was surprised to get his two months' notice in the mail just days after a judge ordered he turn over all evidence to Garrido's new appointed attorney.

Maines told CBS13 he believes his fight to get back on Garrido's case is connected to losing his job.

The court of appeals already ruled Maines has no place staying on the case. The only way to get his client back would mean taking the case for free as private counsel, something Maines claims he can't afford to do.

Video: Nancy Garrido's Ex-Attorney Fired By County 1/27/10
http://www.cbs13.com/video/?id=67185@kovr.dayport.com

Article:
http://cbs13.com/local/gilbert.maines.nancy.2.1454211.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

El Dorado Co. Fires Gilbert Maines
Judge Recently Removed Attorney From Garrido Case
POSTED: 4:40 pm PST January 28, 2010
UPDATED: 4:53 pm PST January 28, 2010
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A lawyer recently removed from the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case has now been fired by the county he was representing.

El Dorado County's chief administrative officer sent Maines a letter of termination dated Monday. The county wouldn't say exactly why Maines was fired. His official termination date is March 26.

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/news/22371153/detail.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Dugard Issued California ID Card
Woman's Application For Driver's License Pending
POSTED: 4:50 pm PST January 29, 2010
UPDATED: 5:11 pm PST January 29, 2010
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Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has taken some official steps toward putting her life together after she allegedly spent nearly two decades in captivity.

Dugard was issued a California identification card in November and has also requested a state drivers license. Although the ID card was mailed to her in November, the license is pending because she must go to a Department of Motor Vehicles office to get one.

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/mostpopular/22382944/detail.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Contra Costa County Expected To Put Lien On Garrido Home
Couple Accused Of Kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard
POSTED: 5:33 pm PST January 29, 2010
UPDATED: 8:01 pm PST January 29, 2010
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According to Manuel Garrido, Phillip Garrido's father, 88-year-old Patricia Franzen owns the home. Franzen is Philip Garrido's mother. She's wheelchair-bound and is now in a nursing home.

The county submitted a bill for $24,019.84 that hasn't been paid, so that will be sent to the board of supervisors next month. It's expected to put a lien on the home and the debt paid through taxes.

"Instead of you, me and everybody paying for it, they should just sell it, if they get $50,000 for it, hey, take it," neighbor Frank Unpingco said.

The family can sell, rent or move in -- but neighbors said finding a tenant might be difficult.

"I wouldn't buy it," neighbor Irma Rodriguez said. "Just because everything that went on there, and still to this day people drive by, take pictures."

Video: 'Dilapidated' Garrido Home Could Get Lien 2:02
http://www.kcra.com/video/22384063/

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/mostpopular/22383598/detail.html

 

[Texas Mist]

Maines Still Wants Nancy Garrido's Case
Woman Accused In Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping Case

POSTED: 12:21 pm PST February 2, 2010
UPDATED: 1:20 pm PST February 2, 2010

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. --
Gilbert Maines, who once represented kidnapping suspect Nancy Garrido, has filed another writ, asking an appeals court to issue an order to rescind a recent order that he be removed as council.

The writ was filed Jan. 29.

The court earlier ruled that Maines wouldn't be allowed to represent Garrido. However, Maines had the option to appeal the decision.

more here

http://www.kcra.com/news/22413259/detail.html

 

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Records: Garrido parole monitors found just one violation
Published: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 - 9:46 pm

Over the course of eight years, as Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly held captive in Phillip Garrido's Antioch-area back yard, federal parole officials continued to debate whether he should be returned to prison, newly released documents indicate.

But from the time he was paroled in 1988 after serving time for kidnapping and rape, he was considered in violation only once, on a minor drug possession offense, and placed on electronic monitoring for about four months, according to the records released to The Bee under the Freedom of Information Act.

The toughest restriction Garrido faced was a requirement that he spend 3 1/2 months in a halfway house in Oakland after his January 1988 release from federal prison.

Garrido, whose original 1977 sentence would have kept him in federal prison until April 10, 2027, won early release and praise for his conduct in prison, according to records previously released to The Bee in September.

The 32 pages of records received Tuesday from the U.S. Parole Commission shed little new light on the supervision of Garrido after his release from prison.

Some portions, including apparent "difficulties in the community," are redacted, and other pages on his daily supervision were not released.

Federal officials indicated they are reviewing additional federal probation documents that will be released later.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2509168.html

 

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Ex-parole agent expresses remorse over Dugard
Tuesday, February 2, 2010


A retired federal parole agent said Tuesday he is sorry neither he nor any of his colleagues discovered Jaycee Dugard was living in her alleged captor's backyard during the years Phillip Garrido was under their supervision in Northern California.

Houston Antwine told Sacramento television station KCRA that he couldn't recall visiting the Antioch home where Garrido lived after he was paroled from federal prison in 1988 until his arrest in August or even having the convicted kidnapper as part of his caseload.

Antwine's name surfaced in a heavily redacted set of records KCRA obtained from the U.S. Parole Commission, which terminated Garrido's parole in March 1999 on the recommendation of his parole officer. But it is not clear from the documents whether Antwine had primary responsibility for or a minimal role in overseeing Garrido.

"I don't think he was a regular case of mine," Antwine told the television station from his home in Tennessee. "I kind of looked at my cases a little closer than that. I would have noticed all this junk in the backyard, got nosy with it, too."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/02/state/n193954S46.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0eS62zHz6

 

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Lawyers for Couple Accused of Abducting Jaycee Dugard Want to Talk With Her
Thursday, February 04, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — A couple being held on charges of abducting a girl more than 18 years ago and keeping her in their backyard wants permission to visit each other in the jail, a defense lawyer said Thursday.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Dugard when she was 11, raping her and confining her and the daughters she bore by Phillip Garrido to a hidden compound in the backyard of their Antioch home.

Stephen Tapson, the court-appointed attorney representing Nancy Garrido, told The Associated Press that he and Phillip Garrido's public defender made the visitation request in twin motions filed Wednesday in El Dorado Superior Court.

The couple is being held separately in jail. He said jail officials so far had refused to let the two inmates meet.

"If one of them were out on bail, they could visit each other, so let them visit each other in jail, just to say hello to each other," Tapson said.

Tapson said he and Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman also filed papers seeking to compel prosecutors to tell them where Dugard is living and if she has a lawyer of her own so they can speak with her while preparing defenses for the Garridos.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584905,00.html

 

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Judge says state may have to release some Garrido parole documents in Jaycee Lee Dugard case
Published: Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 - 3:56 pm

A Sacramento judge today issued a tentative ruling that would require state corrections officials to turn over certain parole documents on Phillip Garrido to The Bee and two other news organizations, and to provide other documents to him for review of whether they also can be released.

The ruling from Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette stems from a lawsuit seeking access to the documents that was filed in December by The Bee, KCRA-TV (Channel 3) and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Corrections officials responded to the tentative ruling by asking for a hearing on the matter that will be held Friday afternoon.

The Bee has been seeking parole documents on Garrido since August, when he was arrested and charged in the 1991 kidnap of Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was 11. Dugard was found alive after 18 years in captivity and Garrido and his wife, Nancy, face charges that could send them to prison for life. Both have pleaded not guilty.

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2514388.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Jessica's Law safe for now
Monday, Feb 1, 11:13am
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In California, the law, known as Jessica's Law, passed overwhelmingly in 2006 as Proposition 83. But it has become more controversial since its implementation. The law is supposed to keep those who've committed sex crimes like rape, child molestation, and possession/distribution of child *advertiser censored*-but have already served their prison sentence-from living near playgrounds and schools. It also calls for all sex offenders to wear GPS tracking bracelets for life. The law has a 'no-duh' kind of simplicity to it: keep people who have shown themselves capable of horrific crimes away from potential victims and keep tabs on where they go to make sure they're staying away from potential victims. Unfortunately, it hasn't really played out like that.

Some say the ankle bracelet portion of the law has aided law enforcement, but there are also questions as to the effectiveness of ankle bracelets--they show where a person is, critics say, but not what he or she is doing. Phillip Garrido wore an ankle bracelet that showed he spent a lot of time outside in his back yard. It famously did nothing to alert authorities to the fact that rather than gardening, Garrido was actually visiting the tent compound where he kept the kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard and their children.

Today, the California Supreme Court dismissed the argument that the law cannot be retroactive (meaning it can be retroactive). It also sent the other questions back to a lower court to hash out some facts of the cases before they rule on the constitutionality ofJessica's Law.

I called up Ernest Galvan (of Rosen, Bien & Galvan) a lead attorney on the trial, and he said that he still feels they do have a good chance of getting what he called a "forced homelessness policy" overturned. He said it's just a matter of going back to trial court and addressing some questions the Justices were concerned about. There's no time line on when that'll happen yet.
*More info at link!

For more info on Jessica's Law, you can listen to a documentary I made with KALW on the fall-out of the law.
http://kalwnews.org/blogs/rinapalta/2010/14211

Article:
http://kalwnews.org/blogs/rinapalta/2010/02/01/jessicas-law-safe-now_120488.html
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Couple accused of abducting Dugard seek visits
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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A couple being held on charges of abducting a girl more than 18 years ago and keeping her in their backyard wants permission to visit each other in the jail, a defense lawyer said Thursday. Stephen Tapson, the court-appointed attorney representing Nancy Garrido, told The Associated Press that he and Phillip Garrido's public defender made the visitation request in twin motions filed Wednesday in El Dorado Superior Court.

Tapson said he and Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman also filed papers seeking to compel prosecutors to tell them where Dugard is living and if she has a lawyer of her own so they can speak with her while preparing defenses for the Garridos.

"We would like to talk to her, obviously, and they are not telling us where she is and she doesn't have a lawyer that we know of," Tapson said.

Nancy Seltzer, a spokeswoman for Dugard, said Dugard is represented by the state. She had no comment on the defense motion seeking access to Dugard or her lawyer because she had not seen it.

A hearing on the motions was scheduled for Feb. 26.

Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/02/state/n193954S46.DTL&tsp=1
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Records Detail Phillip Garrido's Federal Parole
POSTED: 5:46 pm PST February 2, 2010
UPDATED: 9:01 am PST February 3, 2010
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Federal parole supervision records show officers recommended continuing Phillip Garrido's parole four times between 1990 and 1998, after he allegedly kidnapped and held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive in his Antioch home.

The newly disclosed records include supervision reports for Garrido. The reports show four times during Dugard's captivity, Garrido was marked having "continuous time difficulty free in (the) community."

Garrido was convicted and sentenced in the federal kidnapping case of Katie Calloway in 1977, in Reno, Nev. Documents show his sentence would have expired in April 2027.

However, according to the federal records, Garrido was granted early parole on Jan. 20, 1988. He served 134 months of a 50-year sentence.

Video: Records Detail Phillip Garrido's Federal Parole
http://www.kcra.com/video/22416810/index.html

PDF: U.S. Parole Division: Phillip Garrido Parole Report Pgs. 1-32
http://www.kcra.com/download/2010/0203/22416008.pdf

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/mostpopular/22416653/detail.html
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Retired Parole Agent Named In Garrido Documents
Feb 2, 2010 11:21 pm US/Pacific
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Antwine, now retired, worked as a federal parole agent connected with Phillip Garrido's supervision. He is convinced he has only seen Garrido's face on television, not from any personal encounters, but he was shocked to hear his name came up in the federal documents. "That is absolutely amazing," Antwine said. "It kind of scares me I had anything to do with this guy."

Antwine says he handled a massive caseload of up to 90 ex-cons on federal parole and he'd often make house calls, "at least once a month." Antwine might have visited the Antioch home where Garrido is accused of holding Jaycee Dugard prisoner, but he can't remember anything out of the ordinary.

Six months after Dugard's discovery, there is still no explanation how so many missed the warning signs that would have led to her and her daughters. The question still haunts Antwine. "I feel very, very badly for the young girl," he said. "It just took her life away from her."

Article:
http://cbs13.com/local/phillip.garrido.documents.2.1466446.html

 

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AN FRANCISCO -- A defense lawyer says a couple accused of abducting a girl more than 18 years ago and confining her to the backyard of their California home are seeking permission to visit each other in the jail.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido, of Antioch, have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Dugard when she was 11, raping her and confining her and the daughters she bore by Phillip Garrido.

Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney on Thursday told The Associated Press that he and Phillip Garrido's public defender have filed the visitation requests in El Dorado Superior Court.

Stephen Tapson says he and Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman also are seeking to compel prosecutors to tell them where Dugard is living. They want to speak with her while preparing defenses for the Garridos.
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The El Dorado District Attorney's office and a Dugard's family spokeswoman declined to comment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404751.htm

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[Angel Who Cares]

Judge tentatively rules state must hand over Garrido records
Friday, Feb. 05, 2010
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A Sacramento judge issued a tentative ruling Thursday that would require state corrections officials to turn over certain parole documents on Phillip Garrido to The Bee and two other news organizations, and to provide him with other documents for review of whether they also can be released.

The ruling from Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette stems from a lawsuit seeking access to the documents that was filed in December by The Bee, Channel 3 (KCRA) and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Corrections officials responded to the tentative ruling by asking for a hearing on the matter that will be held this afternoon.

*Meanwhile, Phillip Garrido's attorney filed motions in El Dorado Superior Court Thursday asking for the whereabouts of Dugard and whether she has a new lawyer.

*Nancy Garrido's attorney, Stephen Tapson, indicated that he had joined in that motion, as well as a motion to allow the Garridos to visit each other in jail.

*The motions will be argued in a hearing on Feb. 26.
Editor's Note: This story was changed Feb. 5 to correct the date that motions will be argued.

Article:
http://www.modbee.com/breakingnews/story/1036260.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Garridos, Dugard 'acted as a family,' new court documents claim
Published: Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 11:30 am
Last Modified: Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 11:48 am
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As part of their defense strategy, Phillip Garrido's public defender filed a motion seeking permission for the couple to visit each other in the El Dorado County jail, where they have been held in separate cells since August. "He and his wife are co-defendants who need to prepare their case," the motion from attorney Susan Gellman states, adding that the two have family decisions to make, as well.

"While it is true that legal strategy decisions can be made by the attorneys acting on their behalf, family decisions cannot so be made," she wrote. "While the underlying accusations are serious, troubling and sad, there can be no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. Garrido acted as parents to two children and raised them for many years and that the decisions they make regarding their course of action in this case will affect these children for many years to come."

"All of this ended on the day that Phillip and Nancy Garrido was (sic) arrested. Jane Doe's identity was revealed. She told her children that she, not Nancy Garrido, was their mother. She told them she had been kidnapped and raped by their father."

Stephen Tapson, Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney, said Thursday that he would join in the motion and that the defense also would ask that Dugard's whereabouts be revealed and whether she has a new attorney. Prosecutors have said that Dugard is expected to testify at trial because the Garridos have the right to face their accuser. But legal experts say the defense has no right to gain access to Dugard before trial to depose or question her.
*Much more at link!

Article:
http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2516380.html

 

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Report: Philip Garrido stopped having sex with Jaycee Lee Dugard 12 years before arrest
February 5, 2010
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Gellman said the Garridos need to make family decisions together involving the two children he fathered with Dugard.

Gellman cited documents from the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office obtained during the discovery process. In a sworn declaration, Gellman said, "it is clear that, according to Jane Doe (Dugard), sometime around the birth of the second child, there ceased to be any further sexual activity."

"They took vacations together; they went to the library together; they ran a family business together . . . they had special names for each other . . . all this ended the day that Phillip and Nancy Garrdido were arrested," Gellman wrote.

"Mr. Garrido now seeks to visit his wife in the county jail where they both await trial," Gellman wrote. "While the underlying accusations are serious, troubling and sad, there can be no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. Garrido acted as parents to two children and raised them for many years and that the decisions they make regarding their course of action in this case will affect those children for many years to come."

Article:
http://www.rgj.com/article/20100205...with-Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-12-years-before-arrest

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Garrido Attorney Seeks Dugard's Address
Couple Seeks Jail Visit
POSTED: 2:50 pm PST February 5, 2010
UPDATED: 5:22 pm PST February 5, 2010
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A motion filed Friday by Phillip Garrido's public defender, Susan Gellman, also calls upon the El Dorado County district attorney to provide photos of Dugard's daughters and videos of interviews with the girls. The attorneys want the court to compel the district attorney to tell them where Dugard is living so they can talk with her to prepare for their client's defense.

However, under a 2008 Victims' Rights Law known as Marcy's Law, victims of crime can refuse an interview, or discovery request by the defendant, defense attorney or other persons acting on a defendant's behalf. "We can't compel her to talk to us," said Stephen Tapson, the court-appointed attorney representing Nancy Garrido.

"We're making a motion to compel the district attorney to tell us where Jaycee is, so we can say, please talk to us," Tapson said. Marcy's Law also gives victims the right to be represented in a criminal case.

However, Nancy Seltzer, a Los Angeles publicist and spokeswoman for Dugard, told KCRA 3 Friday that Dugard does not have legal representation in the Garrido case. "Not at this time," Seltzer said. "She feels she is in good hands with the district attorney." "Jaycee is the victim here and her needs are being handled by the DA," Seltzer added.
*Much more info at link!

PDF: Defense Motion To Compel Discovery Filed 2/5/10
http://www.kcra.com/download/2010/0205/22478943.pdf

PDF: Defense Motion For Visitation Filed 2/5/10
http://www.kcra.com/download/2010/0205/22478748.pdf

Video: Garrido's Lawyer Requests Dugard's Address
http://www.kcra.com/video/22481286/index.html

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/mostpopular/22479283/detail.html

 

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Court papers describe Garrido 'family's' life as idyllic &#8211; on surface
Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010
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It sounds like a typical American family. But the family unit described in court papers released Friday had Phillip Garrido as its patriarch, and even the most tender descriptions of daily life in the Garrido home cannot erase the fact that the family allegedly sprang from Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapping at age 11 and repeated rapes.

Gellman also asked the court to reveal Dugard's whereabouts, so she could be contacted. Dugard's location has been a closely held secret since August, when she accompanied Garrido to a Bay Area parole office and revealed her identity.

*In other developments Friday, a Sacramento judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit by The Bee and two other media outlets seeking release of parole documents related to the state's decade-long supervision of Phillip Garrido, who is on lifetime parole for 1977 convictions in the kidnap and rape of a young woman near South Lake Tahoe.

After a two-hour hearing, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette directed the state corrections department and the state Office of Inspector General to release its Garrido files by next Friday. He said some documents involving personnel and other issues can be submitted to him separately for review.

Lawyers for the state had argued against the release, saying it could invade the privacy of parole and peace officers and Garrido himself, and could hinder the ongoing prosecution of Garrido and his wife. The state is expected to appeal the decision.
*Much more info at link!

Article:
http://www.modbee.com/breakingnews/story/1037655.html