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Posted: 7:46 PM Jan 24, 2011
DA Objects To Delaying Garrido Competency Hearing
Prosecutors are objecting to a defense request to postpone the competency hearing for the Northern California man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Prosecutors are objecting to a defense request to postpone the competency hearing for the Northern California man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children.
In legal papers posted Monday, El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson says Phillip Garrido's public defender has had enough time to prepare for the Feb. 28 hearing where a jury will decide if Garrido is mentally fit to stand trial.
Pierson called the effort to delay the proceedings "astounding" and "unconscionable."
Deputy Public Defense Susan Gellman asked last week to push back the proceedings so she can inspect evidence and consult a jury expert on whether she should try to have the hearing moved elsewhere in California because the case has attracted so much publicity.
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She is, of course, attempting to delay every part of the proceedings in hopes that the public will forget just what an animal this guy and his wife are. They should have been shot as soon as they were caught and save the state a ton of money.
just shoot the slimeball and be done with it. I lived and worked at South Lake Tahoe when the kidnapping was done, I remember the public outcry and the trees out front of thier home with all the Yellow ribbons. I will never forget. Kill him and his wife, they are EVIL!!!
