Posted on 01/29/2005 12:05:38 PM PST by SandRat
BISBEE - Johnny Lee Williams, who is accused in a Texas abduction case, waived the formal extradition procedure Friday with an understanding that local attempted armed robbery charges will be dropped.
A copy of the Texas warrant was present in Cochise County Superior Court Presiding Judge Tom Collins' Division 1 courtroom Friday at the 2:30 p.m. hearing.
The warrant "is typically sufficient for purposes of waiving extradition," said Teri Goral, Williams county-appointed legal counsel.
Williams' waiver of extradition stops the formal extradition procedure by the governor's offices in Texas and Arizona.
Cochise County Spokeswoman Carol Capas said Williams would probably be transported to Texas sometime next week.
Williams was indicted by a Cochise County Superior Court Grand Jury on Friday morning for his local attempted armed robbery charge, which was dismissed without prejudice as extradition was waived. Without prejudice means the charge can be filed again.
Authorities in Tyler, Texas, have charged Williams with aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree felony, in connection with the Jan. 19 abduction of 19-year-old Megan Leann Holden from a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Her disappearance made national headlines after a security camera caught her abduction on tape.
Williams was arrested by county sheriff's deputies on Jan. 21 at a Willcox hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to the shoulder following an alleged attempt to hold up a country store in Bowie.
But the store's clerk shot at Williams, which is how he received the wound.
Williams arrived at Willcox' Northern Cochise Community Hospital in Holden's truck.
Holden was found shot to death in an Interstate 20 ditch in west Texas, near Stanton, shortly after William's arrest on Jan. 21.
Think he's headed for Texas' Execution Express-Lane on this one.
What's an eged abductor? Egg thief? Dirty Old Man?
Too bad the store clerk didn't have better aim.
and empty the magazine too.
I wish all these thugs were so intelligent!
Bump!
It doesn't matter, when the AZ charges were finished we would have gotten him back here anyway.
He is TOAST! too bad we don't still use 'ol Sparky anymore.
Yep right after Texas sticks you with the needle Arizona will drop the armed robbery.
There's no effing "alleged" about this one - he's guilty, and he's going to get the needle.
Hopefully soon.
Only problem I have is that dragging him to death would be too good for him, but he's just going to go to sleep...
That's the way the paper reported it. I'm hoping that he gets to use Texas' express lane to the needle.
Think he's headed for Texas' Execution Express-Lane on this one.
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