Garrido’s attorney asks for delay in trial
By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee
Phillip Garrido’s public defender is seeking a postponement of his scheduled mental competency trial, saying an overwhelming amount of evidence still must be reviewed and that she is still studying whether to ask that the trial be moved out of El Dorado County.
A jury trial is set to begin Feb. 28 to determine whether Garrido, the accused kidnapper of Jaycee Lee Dugard, is mentally competent to stand trial.
But public defender Susan Gellman, in court documents filed Thursday and made public today, indicated that she will ask for a postponement at the next hearing in the case, which is set for Feb. 3.
In the court documents, Gellman said she continues to receive discovery evidence from prosecutors, the latest a package on Jan. 7 that “contained several hundred pages of documents, as well as a video that is almost six hours in length.”
He kept Jaycee captive for how long? And he actually may not be mentally competant to stand trial? Ya Think. But the bigger issue is what he did to her,we all know he did it, and what’s worse, she has kids by him that he hid in the damn backyard, then after he was found out, said something lame, like he knew she had no money and no way to support herself, whatever! He was compentant enough to hide what he did, he knew what he was doing, we already know he’s a nut basket,he’s already wasted enough time and money for his crime, lock him up already and let him be the benifactor of some prison justice! He kidnapped her, took away her childhood, and he deserves no less.
Well, she better get watching. Just put him in the general population at the jail and let the other inmates take care of him. Save millions of dollars and give JayCee closure.