JAYCEE DUGARD - 11 yo (1991) - Lake Tahoe CA

The man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard has issued an
apology in a jailhouse letter that talks about “a sexual problem
believed to be impossible.”
In a letter Sacramento, Calif., television station KCRA received
Thursday, Phillip Garrido says he wants to “apologize to every human
being for what has taken place.”
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have been charged with abducting Dugard
from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop in 1991 and holding her captive for 18
years in their backyard. Both have pleaded not guilty.
Garrido’s lawyer, Susan Gellman, says he is expressing genuine
remorse. She also says there are “obvious issues” over whether he’s
mentally competent to stand trial.
In a previous letter to the television station, Garrido alleged that
Dugard’s civil rights were being violated during questioning with
authorities.

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.

A brief discovery hearing was held Friday for Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard.Both the prosecution and defense provided an update during the pre-preliminary hearing in Placerville.It's still unclear who will ultimately represent Nancy Garrido.El
Dorado County Superior Court records show Stephen Tapson has been
approved as her interim counsel. Attorney Gilbert Maines previously
represented her.Both Tapson and Maines were in court Friday.Maines
was kicked off the case for allegedly discussing its details at his
golf club and saying he would make money on a book or movie deal after
the trial.He denies the accusations and is fighting to stay on the case.Maines said he hopes "that the court will uphold my position and put me back as her attorney of record."Meanwhile,
Judge Douglas Phimister said the court had received more information
from the district attorney's office, but sealed it out of concern it
could prejudice the case.Dugard's biological father, Ken Slayton, and his attorney, Gloria Allred, were also at the courthouse Friday.Slayton has yet to meet Dugard."I
had always felt that someday I would have a little blond girl … would
come knocking on the door and say, 'Hey, are you my daddy?' And I hope
that someday that girl comes knocking on my door," Slayton said.Katherine Callaway Hall, who was abducted and raped in 1976 by Phillip Garrido, also showed up at the courthouse on Friday."I didn't have the gut reaction I had last time," Hall said.The next hearing for Garrido is set for Jan. 21 at 1 p.m.Maines
would like to continue representing Nancy Garrido, who is suspected of
helping her husband abduct 11-year-old Dugard in Meyers in 1991.Dugard,
who is now 29, was allegedly held captive for 18 years in a hidden,
backyard compound in Contra Costa County. Phillip Garrido is accused of
fathering Dugard's two children, who are now 11 and 15.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A judge has set
bail at $20 million for a woman accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee
Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years.
In setting the high bail amount, El Dorado Superior Court Judge Douglas
Phimister said Thursday he considered Nancy Garrido to be a danger to
the community and a flight risk.
Garrido has pleaded not guilty in the 1991 kidnapping and sexual assault.
Her husband, Phillip Garrido, also has pleaded not guilty. His bail was set at $30 million in September.
Also Thursday, Phimister appointed a new lawyer for Nancy Garrido and said a
weeks-long dispute over her representation had sidetracked the case and
could adversely affect the defendant's rights.
The next hearing is scheduled for March 25.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
Jaycee Lee Dugard's daughters are officially
listed in the state's records. In December, a state judge ordered birth
certificates for both girls.The documents list the official
names of the two girls, but KCRA 3 will not release them. One of the
names listed is different from what has widely been reported. Both of
the girls' last names are listed as "Dugard" on the document.The
birth certificates list birth dates of August of 1994 and November of
1997, making one child 15 years old and the other child 12 years old.Accused
kidnapper Phillip Garrido was listed as the girls' father. The birth
address was 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 s
exual acts occurred during a certain period of time," said Griffin.
Griffin said it was clear that the birth of two children occurred.Phillip
and Nancy Garrido are expected back in court on Feb. 26. The pair are
accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for 18
years.

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."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.
The El Dorado District Attorney's office confirmed receiving the motions but would not comment on them.
A hearing on the motions was scheduled for Feb. 26

ANTIOCH - New details into the deranged mind of Jaycee Dugard's alleged
kidnapper and rapist. The most telling tale from Philip Garrido - that
he stopped having sex with her after the birth of their second daughter.

"Oh hell no. No way. There's no way he stopped doing it with...," neighbor Sam Kovisto said with a sigh.T

He's still haunted by what allegedly happened directly across the street from him at the Garrido's.

"A sicko like that is a sicko forever and it doesn't matter. It's not
like he just wanted little girls though," he said. "There's no way that
he stopped doing anything with Jaycee. No way."

Fellow neighbor, Chuck Smith shares the sentiments of other residents.

He believes if Garrido stopped having sex with Jaycee, he merely moved on to other victims.

Hayward police had spent several days last year, trying to link Garrido to missing Hayward girl Michaela Garecht.

Captain Darryl McAllister confirmed, that overwhelming
similarities between Jaycee and Michaela's case, makes Garrido their
prime suspect, despite several other leads.

Kovisto recalls seeing Jaycee frequently checking the mail and seeing the girls in turtlenecks in the summertime.

They supposedly vacationed together as a family and made trips to the
library. An ordinary family, Garrido might have thought ...

"Well, hell no. There wasn't no ordinary family about it. 'cause everybody knows that he's a freak, you know?" Kovisto said.

Everyone just hopes the best for Jaycee and her girls, and...

"That no body ever says their name again. And they can just live a normal life... Be forgotten," Kovisto added.

SAN FRANCISCO — Jaycee Dugard,
the Northern California woman who was kidnapped as a child and held
prisoner for 18 years, kept a diary in which she wrote of longing for
freedom and feeling both emotionally trapped and protective of the man
charged with raping her, court documents filed Thursday show.
"It feels like I'm sinking. ... this is supposed to be my life to do with
what I like ... but once again he has taken it away," Dugard wrote in
an entry dated July 5, 2004, almost five years before she surfaced last
summer with the two daughters fathered by her alleged captor Phillip
Garrido.
"How many times is he allowed to
take it away from me?" she wrote. "I am afraid he doesn't see how the
things he says makes me a prisoner."A decade later, however, Dugard wrote of the complex emotions surrounding her situation and Phillip Garrido.El
Dorado County prosecutors quoted three portions of Dugard's diary in
the court papers seeking a protective order barring Garrido and his
wife Nancy from trying to contact Dugard or her children, now 12 and 15.
The motion came in response to papers filed last week by the Garridos'
defense lawyers trying to force prosecutors to tell them where Dugard
is living and if she has a lawyer. A hearing is set for Feb. 26.
District Attorney Vern Pierson said Dugard's writings show that Phillip Garrido
controlled her in the past and was trying to exert continued
psychological pressure on her from jail.
Dugard, now 29, has "emphatically stated to our office that she does not want
any contact with the defendants or their attorneys," Pierson said in
the documents. "The people ask this court to protect Ms. Doe and to,
once and for all, put an end to the defendant's manipulation."
The papers referred to Dugard as "Jane Doe" because she was 11 when she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
The documents also reveal new details about Dugard's captivity, saying she
was kept in a building in a hidden compound inside the backyard of the
Garridos' Antioch home for the first 18 months after her abduction then
prohibited from leaving the yard for the first four years.
In another diary entry, dated more than two years after Dugard was
snatched from the street outside her South Lake Tahoe home, Dugard
wrote, "I got (a cat) for my birthday from Phil and Nancy ... they did
something for me that no one else would do for me, they paid 200
dollars just so I could have my own kitten."
"I don't want to hurt him ... sometimes I think my very presence hurts
him," she wrote. "So how can I ever tell him how I want to be free.
Free to come and go as I please ... Free to say I have a family. I will
never cause him pain if it's in my power to prevent it. FREE."
In the court filing, Pierson said Dugard and the two daughters she had by
Garrido when she was 14 and 17 had been instructed by the Garridos to
run to the hidden backyard if anyone ever came to the door.
He also described a plan that Phillip Garrido allegedly hatched to stay in
contact with Dugard if he was ever arrested. Dugard told prosecutors
Garrido instructed her to request an attorney who could communicate
directly with him "without law enforcement knowledge," the papers state.
Since Garrido's arrest, he has tried repeatedly to put the plan into action, Pierson said.
On the day he was arrested and Dugard's identity was revealed, Garrido
advised her to get a lawyer. The next month, Garrido sent a letter to a
Sacramento television station stating he wanted to reach Dugard "by
attorney mail only."
In January, Garrido's lawyer wrote Dugard saying, "Mr. Garrido has asked me to convey that he
does not harbor any ill will toward (Ms. Doe) or the children and loves
them very much."
Dugard interpreted the "ill will" remark to mean she was not following the plan and that the
letter was another way of manipulating her, the papers state.
Phillip Garrido's lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman, wrote in an
e-mail that contacting a witness to determine what happened is part of
her job as a defense attorney, and the information she has been seeking
is a matter of routine in criminal cases.
"For the district attorney to hint that it is somehow improper or nefarious
is disingenuous to say the least," Gellman wrote. "I am not the 'tool'
of any man, as he has been intimated in today's filing."
Nancy Garrido's court-appointed defense lawyer Stephen Tapson
did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The couple also are requesting permission to visit each other in jail,
where they are being held on $30 million and $20 million bail,
respectively.
Pierson opposed that request, too, blasting efforts by defense lawyers to portray the pair
as the parental figures who deserve jailhouse visits so they can
discuss the welfare of their "family."
"The defense utterly fails to recognize that Jane Doe and her children were
not their 'family,' but were in fact captives -- they were victims,"
Pierson wrote. "The unfortunate reality is that Ms. Doe and her
children may not have fully realized they were captives and victims
because the defendants controlled their reality."

SAN FRANCISCO — Newly released parole records show that accused
kidnapper Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a
monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for
19 years — nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive in
his backyard.The 120 pages of records released Friday by
California corrections officials paint a portrait of a convicted rapist
who, once he was released from federal and Nevada state prisons,
appeared to grudgingly comply with the conditions set by parole agents.
The parole followed his imprisonment for a 1977 conviction in the rape
and kidnapping of a Nevada casino worker.Numerous details on
Garrido's background and the Dugard's captivity have emerged since he
was arrested in August, but the new documents that cover the period
from June 1999 to the arrest shed more light on his activities and the
approach taken by law enforcement. He and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have
pleaded not guilty.They were made available after several news
organizations sued to have them made public. The parole file had
previously been turned over to the Office of the Inspector General,
which issued a report last fall blasting corrections officials for
lapses in oversight and missing chances to catch Garrido sooner.The
paperwork shows that in recent years, agents thought Garrido sometimes
acted oddly. At least one agent saw a girl, who Garrido said was his
niece, at the home. An agent also wrote notes about "cursory" visual
inspections of the house."(Garrido) was acting very strange,
weird to say the least by ranting on about God and loudly saying songs,
other than that, nothing out of the ordinary," an agent wrote in June
2008.When he was ordered to meet with his parole agent in April
2008 to receive an ankle monitor to check his whereabouts, Garrido
submitted a one-page letter arguing that he should not have to wear it
in part because he had founded a church and wanted to travel to the
University of California, Berkeley to discuss his religion. The
presentation, he claimed, "will gain the attention of world leaders.""Be
informed if you so choose to place me on this program I am advised to
have an attorney present. The reasoning here is simple it concerns the
continued progress and perfectly clean record I have with the State of
California and the fact that I have nineteen years behind me. The
program is as stated for: High Rish Sex offenders. The Sheriff's office
has me at low risk and as a continued cooperative indivudal."Earlier
documents provided by Garrido to the FBI shortly before his arrest
showed he believed that God spoke to him through an electronic device
he had built and claimed cured sex offenders.The documents also
show that less than a month before he was arrested, the 58-year-old
Garrido initialed papers promising not to have contact with girls
between the ages of 14 and 18 or to have a social or romantic
relationship with anyone who had custody of a child.Garrido was living at the time with the daughters he sired with Dugard, who were 11 and 14.In
granting Garrido early release from his federal parole in May 1999, his
U.S. government parole agent based in Nevada wrote Garrido to "thank
you for your cooperation over this period of supervision and I hope
that you will continue to do well."Because he was also convicted
of the same rape in a Nevada, state parole officials decided to keep
Garrido on life parole. But they wanted him supervised in California,
where he had been living since he got out of prison.When he had
his first encounter with California parole in 1999, the agent's opinion
of Garrido also seemed high, writing: "He is stable and the prognosis
of success is good."Only months later, the same parole agent, Al
Fulbright, recommended that Nevada terminate Garrido's parole, a bid
that apparently failed.The documents released Friday also
outline the events leading up to the Garridos arrest, including some
details not mentioned before about the conversations Garrido had with
law enforcement.Dugard, for example, seemed to be aware that her
parents had moved from Northern California, where she was abducted, to
the southern part of the state."A long, long, long long time
ago, I kidnapped and raped her," Garrido told his parole agent the day
he was arrested, according to the documents."I asked him if Jaycee knew where her parents were, and he said, somewhere in Los Angeles," the agent wrote in the report.

A lawyer representing the Northern California man charged with
kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard says her client is mentally ill and
incapable of trying to manipulate his victim from jail.Susan Gellman, a deputy public defender in El Dorado County, made the characterization in court papers filed Wednesday.Gellman
is asking the judge overseeing the case to make the district attorney
provide her with Dugard's address and to appoint a neutral party to
serve as a go-between between her and Dugard.Prosecutors are trying to obtain a court order that would block Gellman from trying to contact Dugard.Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --Phillip Garrido's public defender said the El
Dorado district attorney is ignoring the extent of her client's mental
illness and indicated her client might not be competent to stand trial.Attorney
Susan Gellman wrote in Wednesday's court filing that Garrido claims to
have heard the voices of angels. She also claimed District Attorney
Vern Pierson was wrong in calling Garrido a "master manipulator."Wednesday's
court filing cites Garrido's contacts with the media, particularly KCRA
3, as "evidence that he may not be competent for trial."Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, are accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, who was allegedly held prisoner near Antioch.
The documents dispute assertions by prosecutors that Gellman should be
prohibited from trying to contact Dugard because Garrido is using her
to manipulate Dugard from jail. Gellman said her relationship with
prosecutors has deteriorated to the point where it could hamper her
ability to defend her client. "The district attorney has
"laudabl(y) claimed his right to champion the rights of the victim in
this case," she said. "But he cannot do so while abandoning the truth
for the sake of political grandstanding."The filings refer to Dugard as "Jane Doe" because she was 11 when she was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted.UC Berkeley police officers spotted Dugard's two daughters, whom Garrido allegedly fathered, with him on the school's campus."Obviously,
the campus police at UC Berkeley were able to perceive the clear signs
of mental illness and took some action instead of ignoring them, which
ultimately led to Mr. Garrido's arrest," the filing states.Gellman
cited Garrido's decision to bring Dugard and the two daughters with him
to his parole agent's office the next day and the confession he made
that morning that he had kidnapped her in 1991 as evidence of his
"complete lack of sophistication."Garrido wrote a document
called "Origin of Schizophrenia Revealed," which he addressed to the
FBI. Gellman said in his writings, he talks about his ability to
control sound with his mind and "his gift of being able to speak with
the tongues of angels."The filing states that one of his
children described of how voices would keep Garrido up at night, and
how the angels lived underground and spoke to him."I think
raising some type of mental defense is his only hope of not spending
his entire life in prison," legal expert and defense attorney Johnny
Griffin said. "It's hard to get the insanity defense if there are not
facts to support it, but here the defense has set forth that there are
numerous things out there -- his manifesto, his weird behavior, his
statements of hearing voices."Griffin said he thinks Gellman
could be doing two things by filing the motion: Telling the court she
cannot effectively communicate with Garrido because of the mental
illness, and telling the court that Garrido doesn't truly understand
the trouble he's in and doesn't understand the legal system.

SACRAMENTO, CA - An appeals court Monday rejected an attempt by
state corrections officials to avoid turning over additional documents
relating to the bungled parole of Phillip Garrido.
The California Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation (CDCR) sought to overturn a Sacramento judge's order
that the department hand over all of Garrido's parole records as
requested by several media organizations under the Public Records Act.
The CDCR argued publishing the documents could endanger the safety and security of its staff.
Garrido is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, then 11, from her
South Lake Tahoe neighborhood in 1991. At the time, Garrido was on
federal parole. Garrido's supervision was transferred to California
parole agents in 1999.
California corrections officials have been criticized for allowing
Garrido to keep Dugard and the two daughters he fathered with her in
the backyard of his Antioch home for a decade while under the
supervision of a series of California parole agents.
The CDCR was forced to release a number of documents Feb. 12 after failing to get an emergency stay from the appeals court. More sensitive documents, such as personnel and medical records, were allowed to be held back for a judge's review.
On Monday, the court summarily denied the state's petition,
requiring the CDCR to provide Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick
Marlette with a list of documents withheld from the initial release.
Marlette will review the documents before deciding which ones will
be made public. He had previously set March 1 as a deadline for
receiving those documents. A CDCR spokesman confirmed the department
had complied.
Marlette earlier indicated he would decide which documents would be released to the public sometime after March 15.

SACRAMENTO, CA - America will get a chance to actually hear from Jaycee Dugard for the first time Friday.
ABC's "Good Morning America" and "20/20" will air exclusive video
and recordings of the kidnapping victim Friday -- the first time her
words have been heard publicly since her August 2009 rescue after 18
years in captivity.
In addition to hearing Dugard speak, the footage is expected to show
never-before-seen images of Dugard's new life with her mother Terry
Probyn and step-sister Shayna.
The programs also promise to present "Jaycee Dugard's mother's powerful plea."
Kidnapped from outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, Dugard was
allegedly held for 18 years in the backyard of Antioch couple Phillip
and Nancy Garrido. The couple are awaiting trial on kidnapping, rape
and imprisonment charges.
Dugard is currently living in an undisclosed location with her two
daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido. Except for an interview with People Magazine last October, Dugard has not spoken publicly about her ordeal.
Portions of the exclusive story were expected to appear on "Good
Morning America" at 7 a.m. Friday on ABC. More footage will be
featured on "20/20" at 9 p.m. Friday.

Good Morning America 3/5/2010

Jaycee Dugard Exclusive: 'It's Been a Long Haul'

Jaycee Dugard Speaks for the First Time in Exclusive Home Video



Excerpt:

The home video shows a portrait of a healing family -- a mother and her two daughters baking cookies, riding horses and laughing together.

It's the first glimpse at the freedom kidnap survivor Jaycee Dugard has enjoyed since her rescue last summer from the backyard lair where she was held captive for nearly two decades.

"Hi I'm Jaycee. I want to thank you for your support and I'm doing well," Dugard said in her first public statement since the arrest of her alleged captors. She is seated, dressed in a black shirt and jeans and a pink baseball cap, and feeding two spaniels.

"It's been a long haul," she said, "but I'm getting there."

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