Posted on 07/29/2002 5:23:14 AM PDT by Dog Gone
Clara Harris, the Friendswood dentist accused of murder for repeatedly driving over her husband, is expected to turn herself in today for allegedly violating terms of her bail agreement.
Harris, free on $30,000 bond in the Wednesday death of orthodondist David L. Harris, is due in state District Judge Carol Davies' courtroom today, her lawyer, George Parnham, said Sunday.
A warrant for Harris' arrest was issued Saturday night, Parnham said, after someone reported that Harris knocked at the door of Gail Bridges, the woman her husband was with when eyewitnesses said Clara Harris ran over him Wednesday night in a Clear Lake hotel parking lot.
But Parnham said his client was with him and others at his downtown Houston office at the time, about 5:45 p.m. Friday.
"She was with me, and I wasn't at Mrs. Bridges' house," Parnham said.
Arrangements were made Sunday for Harris, 44, to turn herself in today rather than spending the night in jail, Parnham said.
The lawyer said he had no quarrel with the police or prosecutors for responding to the allegation that Harris was at Bridges' house but added that he was certain the judge would "make the right decision" when told the circumstances. Parnham said he was hopeful his client's bond would be reinstated.
At Harris' arraignment Friday, Davies said the dentist's bail would be revoked if she tried to contact Bridges or go within 200 feet of Bridges' home or business.
Eyewitnesses to the incident near the Johnson Space Center said that after Clara Harris ran over her husband several times in the parking lot of the Hilton Hotel at 3000 NASA Road 1, she apologized, told him she loved him and begged him to breathe as he lay beneath her Mercedes-Benz.
The dying man's teenage daughter from another marriage was in the Mercedes at the time.
Parnham had better be careful if he tells this to the court, because I know a physician here in town who was sitting at a restaurant table next to him at that very time. This doctor was most amazed when he say Parnham say this on the news last night. It's not true.
What's the local story about his daughter? Has she returned to live with her mother, or is she still with the stepmother? I imagine this girl is going to have some long term difficulties given what she's been through, particularly witnessing her Dad's death.
I'd like to hear her story, as well as the mistress's, but they are understandably laying very low.
I would have, but she made me wait for my dental appointment while she was being arraigned.
There is joke about a chest cavity in there somewhere, I just know it.
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