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insisted that I meet her at her office.  I said no, that I couldn't, 
and she said she didn't want to be video taped-and I asked about their 
use of video taping in their offices.  She denied it, although my husband a
nd I had talked to others who had been through this who told us they did 
tape-Audio and Video, and had been known to use it in trials.  I assured 
her I would not video tape her but she never came to see us.  She went to 
see my daughter instead at the beginning of the year at school, and when 
the girl said she couldn't talk without her Mommy being there, the agent 
left.    
She called me, telling me three different stories about what might 
happen if I didn't start cooperating again, and I said I wouldn't, 
that we were a family, would remain a family.  She said that she would 
have to close the case due to non-cooperation, and I grabbed at that.  
She backed away from her words, realizing she had given me an out.
A few weeks later, we found a notice in the local paper that my husband
had been indicted by the Grand Jury.  There had been no contact from the
police, no arrest, nothing.  He contacted a private investigator friend
who got him in touch with a lawyer, and found out if there was a warrant
issued, how much bail would be, etc.  The friend arranged bail to be 
paid out of the county, as we had begun to hear horror stories about the 
corruption in our own county's "justice" system.  I had gone back to 
work, and his work had fallen off, so scraping up the money to pay the
bond and lawyer wasn't easy, and put us ever deeper into a hole.  Then, 
a month after the indictment, CPS sent us a letter, informing us that 
they were closing their case.  
They were finally out of our lives, but we now faced the legal angle. 
His lawyer began to announce ready at pretrial, but the county kept 
putting the case at the bottom of the docket, where it constantly got 
knocked off.  A really important case, here, I suppose.  High-priority.  
This began in January of 1992, and it's now February 1996.  The lawyer 
had told us that the county DA's office had boasted to the media once 
that he never dropped a case once charges were filed-and he always won.
He's a very high-profile DA, with an amazing conviction record-one won-
ders how long he will be content to be stuck in a backwater little 
county before moving on to bigger and better things.  
The DA's office offered a deal in Nov. 94:  Deferred adjudication, 
probation for five years.  Period.  A way to save their face since 
their case isn't as strong as they hoped.  We're waited for 4 months 
to see if the judge agreed to the deal.  If he didn't, my husband was 
willing to take his chances in court-on a charge that the court claims 
happened over five years ago.  Trouble is, the DA doesn't realize that 
my daughter can't remember how long ago we moved to the area, couldn't 
tell you that year if her life depended on it-and she was old enough 
that she should be able to recall it.  The big drawback to a trial is 
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