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that my husband's lawyer may be forced to place her on the stand and 
tear her apart in order to make a jury understand how easily led and 
confused the girl is.
Well, the plea bargain wasn't.  The Asst. DA who offered it, told us that
Frank wouldn't have to plead guilty.  The county changed Asst. DAs again-
they seem to rotate cases, and we got the original Asst. DA.  She refused
the plea bargain unless Frank pled (sp) guilty.  Frank didn't like the 
idea, but before he could refuse it, the judge said HE didn't like the
plea bargain (no doubt at the behest of the DA).  This happened in Feb
of 95.  The DA supposedly told our lawyer that she had a good case and
would be taking it to trial soon.
The case came up on the trial docket again (it had been removed from there
in October when the idea of the plea bargain came up and put on the plea
docket) the next month.  It was SIXth on the docket!  This case has never
been higher than sixth-and still has not gone to trial.  The lawyer said
that since it was taken off the trial docket, something called the 18 month
clock stopped-and now must start again.  So the case must work it's way back
up through the system.  Sounds like a really IMPORTANT case, doesn't it?
Still seems like if they had anything concrete they would have taken it
to the trial before now.  As it is, it's been 29 months since he was 
indicted, and the lawyer says that the DA can keep this up for TEN YEARS!
Frank thinks they may be waiting for our daughter to turn 18 in another
5 months and then try to convince her that she really WAS abused.  The
lawyer balks at filing a request for dismissal, always has some excuse
about it.  He first said he had to wait two years from the time of the
indictment, now, he just won't discuss it.  I don't think it could hurt
anything for him to at least try. 
Contrary to what CPS planned, all of this served to draw us closer as 
a family-and having watched my daugher with her father, I know that 
she's not afraid of him, has never been afraid of him.  If someone 
hurts her, she tells me about it, always has.  She never told me a 
thing about Daddy hurting her.
When the case came onto the trial docket in November 1995, it was 
ELEVENTH on the docket, and of course did not go.  The lawyer insists 
that time is on our side, that all we can do is wait out the District 
Attorney's office, but our daughter will be 18 in August of this year, 
and we worry that they hope to get to her without going through us at 
that time and feed her more of their lies.  
We've moved to another county over 100 miles away to try and put this 
behind us, but Frank still can't find work because he has to report to 
the Bail Bond Co. at least every other week, and once he tells a 
prospective employer the reason, he's passed over for a job.  We can't 
go on like this much longer, and would like the Denton Co. DA to either 
try the case or drop it.
The bond company is as confused as we are, and have not been notified of
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