Phillip Garrido's attorney has filed a broad request for information on what type of evidence has been gathered against her client, who is charged with abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 when she was 11.
Public defender Susan Gellman filed her six-page request in El Dorado Superior Court asking for an array of information, including a list of prosecution witnesses to be called at trial and whether any have convictions for felonies or moral turpitude.
She also is requesting witness statements, photos, police officer notes and any records of samples of hair, blood, urine or tissue taken during the investigation.
Gellman asks for "all relevant real evidence seized or obtained as part of the investigation."
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, are being held in the El Dorado County jail and are scheduled to return to court Oct. 29 for a preliminary hearing. The District Attorney's Office has said a trial for the couple likely will not commence for up to two years.
Dugard, who was taken from her South Lake Tahoe-area home while walking to a school bus stop, was discovered alive in August in Antioch, where authorities say she was kept prisoner by the Garridos and bore two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido.
– Sam Stanton
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