Nancy Garrido's Lawyer Says Jailhouse Notes Won't Hurt Defense
PLACERVILLE, El Dorado County (CBS 5 / AP) ― The attorney for the Bay Area woman charged along with her husband with holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years said Saturday evening that jailhouse letters sent from his client to a friend she met in jail won't hurt her defense.
Nancy Garrido frequently mentions God and her husband, Phillip Garrido, in the letters, saying the couple are "two peas in a pod."
"We have a great future in God's Kingdom, Phil and I don't have one in this world, but Kathryn, we Phil and I keep our eyes fixed in God's Kingdom, there is where our future will be together," she wrote.
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KPIX-TV CBS 5 broadcast excerpts of the letters on Friday night. They were sent to a woman Nancy Garrido befriended while being held in the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville. She is identified only as Kathryn.
Attorney Stephen Tapson confirmed the authenticity of his client's letters.
The Garridos are charged with kidnapping Dugard in 1991 and keeping her and her two daughters hidden in a backyard compound in Antioch until last year.
Nancy Garrido has pleaded not guilty. Her husband's arraignment has been postponed pending completion of court-ordered psychiatric evaluations.
In the letters, Nancy Garrido tells her friend - who was transferred to a state prison, "You'll love Phillip as well, because we're two peas in a pod."
Tapson said the passage written by his client "insinuates she's a God-fearing person," and it will not hurt her defense in the case.
"My interpretation is that it's new indicating new characteristics that she found Jesus," he said.
Tapson also noted that all correspondence written by jail inmates are copied by authorities.
"There's no secrets on letters coming out of the jail," he said.
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