The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard #.2

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Nancy Garrido Gets New Attorney

Nov 13, 2009 8:16 am US/Pacific

PLACERVILLE (CBS13) ―A new attorney has been appointed to represent accused kidnapper Nancy Garrido.

Stephen A. Tapson will be her court appointed attorney at least until a November 30th hearing.

Garrido's previous attorney, Gilbert Maines, was removed last week.

Nancy Garrido and her husband Phillip Garrido are accused of holding Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

http://cbs13.com/crime/nancy.garrido...2.1310322.html

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Dugard Case Sparks New Sex Offender Checks

Nov 13, 2009 8:26 am US/Pacific

VACAVILLE (CBS13) ¯After Jaycee Lee Dugard was found alive, some police departments started looking at how they check on sex offenders.

The Vacaville Police Department now has a closer relationship with the state parole and county probation.

They also have access to the parole agent's notes making it easier to keep track of registered sex offenders and what they must do to be in compliance.

During a sweep on Thursday night, officers checked on 40 registered sex offenders and arrested four.

http://cbs13.com/jayceelee/vacaville.sex.offenders.2.1310333.html

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Former Deputy DA: Garrido Case Could Be Moved

Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapped In 1991, Found This Year

POSTED: 4:47 pm PST November 16, 2009

PLACERVILLE, Calif. --The trial against Phillip and Nancy Garrido could be moved to Sacramento, Stockton or Modesto, as finding impartial jurors could be difficult in Placerville, according to a former deputy district attorney.

Erik Schlueter served as a deputy district attorney in El Dorado County for 16 years, and was in that role in 1991 when Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped.

"It's kind of quieted down, but occasionally it flares up and people just shake their heads and wonder how this could happen here in El Dorado County," Schlueter said.

Phillip Garrido's attorney, Susan Gellman, said a change of venue is something attorneys will still have to consider.

"Change of venue? … I think that's something that we'll have to look at … the only problem is … where would we go?" Gellman said.

Moving the trial would not a be a huge expense unless it goes to San Francisco or Los Angeles.

Schlueter also said that "there's the possibility of an insanity plea on this [case]."

There are up to six different agencies currently providing funding to the Dugards, including state, federal, the El Dorado County District Attorney's office and the Victim/Witness Emergency Fund.

It doesn't mean Dugard is in line to testify in this case, it means she's entitled to those benefits as a victim of a violent crime.

Schlueter has reviewed this criminal complaint against the Garridos filed in late August. He said he agrees with the 29 counts the district attorney is after, with the exception of some errors.

"They do need to go through the complaint and clean up … there are some errors in the complaint that I've seen. They're not catastrophic errors, just language errors," Schlueter said.

Dugard was 11 when police said Phillip and Nancy Garrido kidnapped her in Meyers, then allegedly held her captive for 18 years in a hidden, backyard compound in Contra Costa County. Garrido is accused of fathering Dugard's two children, who are now 11 and 15.

http://www.kcra.com/news/21633706/detail.html

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Nov 17, 2009 7:37 pm US/Pacific

Dugard Spokeswoman Critical Of Jaycee Movie Plans

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ―A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her.

In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer termed a plan to make a movie about her life as "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind."

The statement came after Shane Ryan, the director of low-budget horror movies such as "Amateur Porn Star Killer" and "Romance Road Killers" announced that he expected to start production next month on "Abducted Girl, An American Sex Slave."

Ryan told Sacramento television station KCRA that he wants to focus on the relationship between Dugard and Phillip Garido, the man charged with abducting, raping and holding her captive in his backyard.

http://cbs13.com/jayceelee/dugard.sp...2.1319111.html

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CDCR: Garrido's Parole Agent Threatened

Report Had Blasted California Department Of Corrections Over Garrido's Supervision

POSTED: 5:52 pm PST November 18, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Threats against Phillip Garrido's parole agent forced him to transfer to a new office in the Sacramento area, a KCRA 3 investigation has uncovered.

"The nature of the threats against him have been severe enough to relocate him," said Gordon Hinkle, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Due to the sensitive nature of these threats, KCRA 3 is not naming the parole agent. However, KCRA 3 has confirmed the agent was transferred to a Sacramento parole office specifically because of security concerns that arose after Garrido's arrest.

Hinkle described it as a "huge security issue."

"It led to his transfer. His wife was threatened. His children were removed from their school," Hinkle said.

The corrections department would not say when the transfer took place. Hinkle also would not elaborate on the exact nature or extent of the threats.

Hinkle added that, to the best of his knowledge, no taxpayer dollars were used to pay for the agent's relocation even though the department "backs up its employees if their lives are threatened."

Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, are accused of the kidnapping and rape of Dugard, who was abducted in Meyers in 1991. Authorities allege that Dugard was held in the Garridos' Antioch back yard for years. They also allege that Phillip Garrido fathered two children with Dugard. The Garridos, who are being held in El Dorado County, have both pleaded not guilty.

A scathing report earlier this month from the California Office of the Inspector General said the corrections department failed to "adequately classify and supervise" Phillip Garrido, a convicted rapist, for several years.

Garrido was on federal and then state parole during the time he allegedly took Dugard from a bus stop and then held her for nearly two decades at his Bay Area home.

"We agree that serious errors were made over the last 10 years," CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate told reporters the day the report was released. "We obviously deeply regret any error that could have possibly resulted in the victims living under these conditions for even one additional day."

Inspector General David Shaw said corrections officials missed several clues in the Garrido case.

The parole agent in charge of supervising Garrido knew there was a 12-year-old girl inside his home but didn't notice electrical wires that led into a compound where Garrido's alleged kidnapping victim was being held, according to the inspector general's report.

In addition, previous agents who performed searches of the home didn't mention the wires either, even though they were visible from several places in the back yard. "None of the parole agents documented in their notes that they ever noticed, investigated, or inquired about the wires," the report said.

Although Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren Rupf said he believes CDCR has made some improvements, he again blasted the federal parole system, which supervised Garrido from 1988 to 1999 -- during which Dugard was abducted.

"It's hard to assess people that stand back in the shadows. None of us even know what these folks look like," Rupf said, regarding the federal parole system.

Garrido lived in his mother's Contra Costa County home from 1988 until his arrest in August. But the sheriff's department didn't find out he lived there until 1999, when he registered as a sex offender. During the previous 11 years, federal parole officials never notified the sheriff's department about Garrido's background.

Rupf claimed responsibility for his department's mistakes within 24 hours of Dugard's discovery. The CDCR owned up to its mistakes much later, only after the inspector general's scathing report.

Rupf said his department has made changes: Any activity within 1,000 yards of a registered sex offender home draws a red flag within the department's computer system, alerting patrol officers.

There is also more collaboration between the sheriff's department and parole agents, Rupf said: For the first time, state agents joined a multi-agency sex offender sweep.

http://www.kcra.com/news/21658357/detail.html