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Central Texas Capital Murder Defendant Asks for New Judge
A Central Texas woman accused of arranging the death of her ex-husband now says she thinks the district judge who is set to hear the case has a bias against her.
Reporter: By Paul GatelyEmail Address: paul.gately@kwtx.com |
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(November 10, 3008) – A district court hearing is set in Gatesville Wednesday before a visiting judge who must decide if the sitting judge in that court should recuse himself from presiding over a capital murder case.
Megan Lewis-Grant is scheduled to go on trial on Dec.1 for her part in the murder of her former husband, 44-year-old James Michael Grant, on Sept. 15, 2007.
Lewis-Grant’s attorney, Russ Hunt, Sr., of Waco, will argue Wednesday that 52nd District Judge Philip Zeigler should not hear the case because he has a pre-conceived bias against the defendant.
Senior District Judge James Clawson, of Bell County, will sit on the 52nd District Court bench for the hearing.
Judge B.B. Schraub, of Seguin, who is the administrative judge for the region that includes Coryell County, appointed Clawson.
James Michael Grant’s body was found lying outside of his pickup truck alongside a Coryell County road after sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a suspicious vehicle call by a resident who lived nearby.
He had been stabbed to death.
James Michael Grant II, the 16-year-old son of the murdered man, already has pleaded guilty to helping in the murder.
He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Zeigler heard that case.
Megan Lewis-Grant and her boyfriend John Hopkins both are charged with capital murder in connection with the crime.
The case likely would be among the last criminal trials over which Zeigler would preside because he already has announced his retirement on Dec. 31
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Well I know them, and I am surprised that anyone would describe Megan as a good person if they actually met her.
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPEND BUT THE ONES THAT WERE THERE HOW CAN YOU SIT THERE AND SAY JAMIE WILL ROT IN PRISON,HE WILL NOT! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPEND & YOU ONLY KNOW WHAT THE PAPERS TELL YOU MEGAN AND JAMIE BOTH ARE GOOD PEOPLE. DONT JUDGE SOMEONE WHEN YOU DONT KNOW THEM .
Anyone else think she looks like a blonde bitchy version of Rosie O'Donnell? Or is it just me? :)
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