By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee

Fed up with delays in the kidnap case against Phillip and Nancy Garrido, a judge in Placerville today booted defense attorney Gilbert Maines as Nancy Garrido’s lawyer and ordered the case to move forward.

Maines said he would continue his fight to represent her, adding that Garrido wants him as her attorney.

But the judge instead appointed Stephen Tapson as the attorney to handle the case.

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