Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Heather Grady Arraignment

http://parkercountytx.com/JudicialSearch/Scripts/UVlink.isa/parker/WEBSERV/CriminalSearch?action%253Dview%26track%253D19756

We went to Weatherford Texas and saw Heather being arraigned.
She walked in with the other 6 or so men and another woman. Heather was in shackles; the chain wrapped around her waist with her hands in front of her in cuffs, her ankles hobbled up like a horse with a chain from her hobbles to her waist. The gray and white stripped pull over shirt and pants with the stencil of "Weatherford Jail Inmate" on the top in faded red letter was her attire as the rest of the inmates. Only a handful of (maybe 6) spectators were at hand in the court room. She entered through the left side door preceded by the men and immediately I noticed her. She looked just like the mug shot from Parker County as before. She had obviously put on a bit of weight, her face was sunken in at the cheeks and her brown hair had frosted high-lights that had grown out an inch or so. Her hair was pulled back into a make-shift pony tail. As she entered the court room she would have noticed Jim sitting across the pew, no one was blocking her view of him as the rest of us all sat in the back area observing. She never looked his way.
She was brought up before the judge, he asked her if she had an attorney, she had applied for a public defender who the judge named a lawyer and he asked if she owned any property. She said a Jeep Liberty but it was repossessed. Was that the car she got using Ishmells name? If so it was never hers to begin with.
She turned as not to look at Jim and back to where the other inmates sat like a pew full of choir members off to the front side. All the inmates got up on request and were shuttled out like cattle with their chains clinking along the way. Jim turned back to look at me and I nodded yes as if we were done.
We left quietly around 9:30am.
We contacted the Cross County Prosecutors office and was told he was working on the case yesterday. We are now awaiting our court date here. No more 8 hour drives for us for awhile.