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« Reply #80 on: November 14, 2014, 03:55:56 PM »

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« Reply #81 on: November 14, 2014, 08:38:16 PM »

\Running death: Grandmother wants charge dismissed

The Associated PressJAY REEVES Nov 14th 2014 8:16AM 

 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- An Alabama woman accused of running her granddaughter to death has asked an appeals court to dismiss a capital murder charge against her, citing potential autopsy problems and legal delays.

Lawyers for Joyce Garrard Hardin, 49, have filed papers with the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals saying they found numerous problems with the state's autopsy of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin in 2012.

Hardin has been jailed since Feb, 22, 2012, accused of making her granddaughter run for hours as punishment for a lie about candy. Authorities have said the girl was exhausted to the point of collapsing. She died three days later in a hospital.

The defense contends the child died because of long-standing health problems, adding testimony about the girl's physical condition and the autopsy could be vital at trial. Those lawyers have asked the appeals court to order a circuit judge in Alabama's Etowah County, William Ogletree, to throw out the charge.
 


I certainly hope the charges aren't dismissed.  If Savannah did in fact have long-standing health problems surely the grandmother knew.  It was wrong to treat anyone the way Savannah was treated, especially being a young girl, but if she had health issues, that makes it even worse imo.  By the defense bringing in Savannah's physical condition and long standing health problems, the prosecution should turn that right around and ask why would anyone force a child that is known to be medically fragile into such a punishing physical ordeal?     Of course the defense attorneys want the the charges thrown out.  And that's because what the grandmother and others did was so horrible to Savannah as far as defense, they've got nothing!!  JMHO
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« Reply #83 on: February 11, 2015, 08:01:58 PM »

2/11/15 Garrard trial may create parking problems for Etowah County Courthouse 

"Jury selection is scheduled to begin next week in the capital murder trial of Garrard, accused of capital murder in making her 9-year-old granddaughter Savannah Hardin run around their Etowah County home for about three hours on Feb. 17, 2012 as punishment for lying about eating a candy bar. The girl collapsed and died three days later.

Officials anticipate a jury pool of about 700 will be called next week, meaning parking may be at a premium at the courthouse, which sits across Forrest Avenue from the county judicial building."

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/02/garrard_trial_may_create_probl.html#incart_river
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« Reply #84 on: February 20, 2015, 11:48:49 AM »

2/11/15 Garrard trial may create parking problems for Etowah County Courthouse 

"Jury selection is scheduled to begin next week in the capital murder trial of Garrard, accused of capital murder in making her 9-year-old granddaughter Savannah Hardin run around their Etowah County home for about three hours on Feb. 17, 2012 as punishment for lying about eating a candy bar. The girl collapsed and died three days later.

Officials anticipate a jury pool of about 700 will be called next week, meaning parking may be at a premium at the courthouse, which sits across Forrest Avenue from the county judicial building."

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/02/garrard_trial_may_create_probl.html#incart_river


deal with it officials -- this case hurts my heart so much.
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« Reply #85 on: March 16, 2015, 07:09:20 AM »

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20150221/NEWS/150229969
Faculty holds onto good memories of Savannah Hardin
February 21, 2015


Several books have been donated to the Carlisle Elementary School library in memory of former student Savannah Hardin. Savannah died after being punished at home in 2012.
Marc Golden | Gadsden

At 9 years old, Savannah Hardin had not left a mark on the world at large, but she certainly marked the hearts of the faculty and staff at Carlisle Elementary School.

Hardin died three years and a few days ago, in February 2012, and her death led to capital murder charges against her grandmother, Joyce Hardin Garrard.

For those who knew Savannah at Carlisle, the upcoming trial is another reminder not only of the tragedy, but of a sweet child they remember as “a ray of sunshine.”

Principal Donna Johnson said Savannah was an excellent student and an avid reader, and she loved horses. Reading from a letter Savannah wrote about herself in school, she said her talents were “getting close to horses and art.”

Savannah was a third-grader at the school when she died. Paige Cash, now a counselor, was one of her teachers at Carlisle. Hope Harris was the school’s guidance counselor in 2012.

Johnson and Cash remembered the girl as an excellent student. “She tried really hard in academics,” Johnson said. “She liked to help others, but she didn’t always want others to see that.”
 

Savannah loved to read, she added, and always made her goals in the school’s Accelerated Reader program.

It was Savannah’s love of reading that inspired a lasting tribute to her at Carlisle.

“After she passed, we had a fundraiser and we used the money to buy books,” Johnson said. The books were placed in the school library, each bearing a bookplate in memory of Savannah.

Harris said the books were selected to reflect Savannah’s interests and loves — such as her love of horses.

“We tried to pick books she would have enjoyed,” she said.
 
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« Reply #86 on: March 16, 2015, 07:11:59 AM »

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/02/trial_of_joyce_garrard_accused.html
Trial of Joyce Garrard, accused of running granddaughter to death, set to begin next week
February 21, 2015

An Etowah County jury will soon decide whether a 9-year-old girl died as a result of an excessive punishment from her grandmother over a lie.

Jury qualification was completed Friday and jury selection is expected to begin next week in the capital murder trial of Joyce Hardin Garrard, 49.

Garrard is accused of forcing her granddaughter Savannah Hardin to run for three hours carrying firewood until she collapsed from exhaustion in February 2012. The punishment came, prosecutors contend, because the grandmother caught Hardin in a lie on a Friday afternoon about eating a candy bar.

The child was taken to a Gadsden hospital and then transferred to Children's of Alabama, where she died the following Monday. A preliminary autopsy showed she was extremely dehydrated and had a very low sodium level.
 
Savannah's biological parents divorced when she was three, and both parents moved to Florida where they shared custody.

Between 2007 and 2009, the Florida Department of Children and Families on at least four occasions investigated allegations that Savannah was being mistreated or was living in hazardous conditions while living with her mother, according to documents obtained by The Ledger of Lakeland, Fla. However, investigators found no evidence for the charges.

The Associated Press reported that Savannah began living with her father Robert in 2009 and they moved back to Alabama. He then married Jessica Mae Hardin, fathered a son with her, and both she and Garrard watched Savannah and the boy while Robert was working for the U.S. State Department outside the country. Garrard is Robert's mother.

Jessica Mae Hardin was arrested along with Garrard in connection with Savannah's death, just days before Jessica gave birth to a child.

She called 911 to report Savannah had collapsed from seizures. Prosecutors said in 2012 she was charged with murder because she was at the home and failed to intervene and stop the abuse. She has not yet been tried, and her lawyers contend she is innocent.

District Attorney Jimmie Harp said at the time that Garrard was charged with capital murder because the child's death occurred during child abuse, which is also a felony.

The defense says Garrard is innocent. It blames the child's death on other medical problems and treatment decisions.

Court records showed Savannah had a medical condition requiring medication, treatment and trips to a Birmingham urologist. Authorities in 2012 said Garrard's anger came because Savannah supposedly ate chocolate, and the girl was not supposed to consume caffeine due to her condition.

Etowah County investigators three years ago said they were tipped off after concerned neighbors called and described Savannah's treatment. Before a judge imposed a gag order, prosecutors said Garrard could be seen on a surveillance video from the girl's school bus telling the driver she would run the child until "she can't run no more."

Last year, Robert Hardin filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Gadsden Regional Medical Center, claiming a doctor and nurse did not properly diagnose and treat the child when she was brought in. The suit alleges the child's medical care contributed to her death.
 
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« Reply #87 on: March 16, 2015, 07:14:09 AM »

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/02/judge_will_allow_questions_on.html
Judge will allow questions on fired pathologist in Savannah Hardin case
February 24, 2015

Etowah County Circuit Judge Billy Ogletree ruled today that defense attorneys for Joyce Hardin Garrard can ask questions about the reasons why a state pathologist who performed the autopsy on Savannah Hardin was fired from her job.

Ogletree also pushed back the beginning of jury selection to Thursday due to the threat of snow on Wednesday, meaning opening arguments in the trial of the woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death in 2012 won't begin until next week.

Ogletree made several rulings this afternoon in a hearing that lasted about 90 minutes.

The state had sought in a motion to block questions about Dr. Emily Ward, who performed an autopsy on the child for the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. The defense had filed a copy of a May 2013 letter to Ward saying she was being fired for falsifying time sheets and dereliction of duty.

But District Attorney Jimmie Harp said the state stands by her work on the case.

"We're happy with her work, we're proud of her work," District Attorney Jimmie Harp said. "She's fair game as far as her career is concerned."

Most of the hearing was taken up by a question as to the standard of medical care Hardin received after she collapsed.
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« Reply #88 on: March 16, 2015, 07:17:28 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/24/prosecutors-try-to-block-victim-medical-record-in-capital-murder-trial-ala/
Prosecutors try to block victim's medical record in capital murder trial of Ala. grandmother
February 24, 2015

http://**/general-news/20150223/alabama-woman-set-for-trial-in-granddaughters-running-death
State wants no questions on autopsy doctor in running death
February 23, 2015

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — Lawyers for an Alabama woman charged in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter shouldn't get to raise questions about the past of the doctor who performed the girl's autopsy, prosecutors told a judge.

Etowah County prosecutors, in a motion filed confidentially last week and made public by the defense in a court document late Sunday, argue that attorneys for Joyce Hardin Garrard should be barred from delving into the reasons the doctor left state employment.

The state also asked the judge to block Garrard's lawyers from presenting any unsupported speculation about what killed 9-year-old Savannah Hardin in February 2012. And jurors shouldn't get to hear anyone but Garrard describe her mental state or intent, the state argued.

The defense asked Etowah County Circuit Judge Billy Ogletree to allow all relevant evidence in the trial, which will begin later this week with jury selection.

Questions about the autopsy and Garrard's intent could be vital because the defense blames the child's death on health issues aside from running and denies that the woman wanted to harm the child.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Ogletree would hold a hearing on the motions before final jury selection and opening statements. Preliminary juror qualification ended last week.
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« Reply #89 on: March 16, 2015, 07:19:01 AM »

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/03/judge_opens_jury_selection_pro.html
Judge opens jury selection process in trial of Savannah Hardin's grandmother
March 3, 2015

Etowah County Circuit Judge Billy Ogletree has opened the jury selection process in the trial of a woman accused of running her granddaughter to death.

Jury selection continues today in the trial of Joyce Hardin Garrard, 59, who prosecutors say forced her granddaughter, 9-year-old Savannah Hardin, to run in place as punishment until she collapsed in February 2012. She died in a Birmingham hospital days later.

Natalie Barton, spokeswoman for the judge, said Ogletree opened the process this morning. Lawyers for Garrard had argued in a filing Monday that closing the jury selection process was unconstitutional.

It is also unclear when opening statements may begin in the case. Jury selection was slowed last week by winter weather, and icy precipitation expected on Thursday could move the opening to next week
 
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« Reply #90 on: March 16, 2015, 07:21:07 AM »

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20150310/NEWS/150319999?Title=Neighbor-testifies-she-heard-Garrard-ordering-granddaughter-to-run
Jurors in Garrard trial hear 911 call
March 10, 2015

Jurors on Tuesday heard a more than 11-minute 911 call made by Jessica Hardin in February 2012 as testimony continued in the capital murder trial of Joyce Hardin Garrard.

In the call, 9-year-old Savannah Hardin’s stepmother told the dispatcher the girl suffered a seizure as she was going down the back steps of the porch.

Garrard can be heard in the background, calling out to the girl, apparently trying to get her unconscious granddaughter to respond.

At 2 minutes, 41 seconds into the call, Garrard can be heard in the background, saying, “Get me a smoke ...”

Garrard is charged with forcing the girl to run for hours until she collapsed and died days later in a hospital. Authorities say the girl was being punished for eating candy bars and lying about it.

On cross examination, defense attorney Richard Rhea asked dispatcher Lori Beth Beggs if Garrard didn’t in fact say “Get me a throw or something,” but Beggs said she did not.

She said Garrard asked for a smoke, as in a cigarette. She said she’d never had someone in the middle of a 911 call asking for a cigarette.

Testimony from first responders indicated there was a blanket over the lower half of Savannah’s body when they arrived at the scene. In questioning witnesses, Rhea suggested the blanket could have been the considered a throw.

She said Hardin responded to her questions, saying Savannah did take medication regularly. However, she also said that Savannah didn’t have any medical condition, and never during the 911 call did anyone mention that the child had been running for hours prior to her collapse.
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« Reply #91 on: March 16, 2015, 07:23:21 AM »

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/prosecutors-ala-girl-forced-to-run-3-hours-carrying-firewood/
Prosecutors: Ala. girl forced to run 3 hours carrying firewood
March 10, 2015

 
Assistant district attorney Marcus Reid said during opening statements in a standing-room-only courtroom that jurors would hear from neighbors who say they heard and saw what happened to Savannah the day she died.
Defense attorney Dani Bone tried to raise doubt about medical evidence in the case by showing jurors a version of the indictment, which mentioned severe dehydration and seizures. However, Bone said Savannah died because of a fatally low sodium level. He said the evidence will show the girl had too much water in her system, not that she was dehydrated.
Bone told jurors that prosecutors "have oversold their case to the world."

"They're trying to hoodwink you with junk science," he said. "Make them prove their case."

According to prosecutors, neighbors said Garrard yelled at the girl as she ran, forcing her to continue "like some kind of drill sergeant."

A neighbor, Chad Jacobs, said he saw the girl running and carrying firewood and sticks over a two-hour period as he came and went from his home.

"Joyce and Savannah were in the yard, and Joyce was telling Savannah to keep running," said Chad Jacobs. "She was just saying, 'Keep running, I didn't tell you to stop.'"

Jacobs said he wasn't concerned at first but eventually saw the girl "on all fours" on the ground and vomiting with Garrard pouring water over her. Paramedics arrived within minutes, he said.

When paramedics arrived, they found Savannah on the ground, "freezing cold to the touch," her clothes and shoes soaking wet, Reid said. Garrard never told the medics that the girl had been running; she said only that the girl collapsed in the yard.

Savannah wasn't supposed to eat candy because she was on medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and had a bladder problem, but she had eaten candy on the school bus the day before she died.

Garrard was angry that Savannah ate the candy - "but she was more upset about the lie," Reid said.

Surveillance video from a school bus shown to a jury showed Garrard talking with the bus driver, Raenna Holmes, about Savannah taking candy without paying from another student who was selling it. Garrard told Holmes: "She's going to run until I tell her to stop."

The women then talk about a bladder condition the girl had and a procedure she had related to that condition. The driver then asks, "Is she OK?"

Garrard replies: "She might be when I get about four more bottles of water in her."

Holmes said in court that she saw the girl picking up sticks in the yard but did not see her running.

"I feel partly responsible. I should have paid for those candy bars," Holmes said.

The girl's stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, is awaiting trial on a murder charge in the girl's death. Authorities said she failed to intervene while the older woman forced the girl to run.
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« Reply #92 on: March 16, 2015, 07:24:58 AM »

http://www.alabamas13.com/news/Prosecutors-nearing-end-of-evidence-in-running-death-trial/31773524
Prosecutors nearing end of evidence in running death trial
No word on whether Garrard will testify

March 13, 2015

Etowah County authorities have presented medical evidence showing Savannah Hardin died of seizures caused by low sodium levels, and they've called neighbors who say grandmother Joyce Hardin Garrard made the girl run as punishment.

Garrard’s attorneys called for a mistrial Wednesday, claiming the prosecution failed to turn over some medical records. The judge denied the request.

The prosecution could present additional evidence Friday, or it could rest.

The defense will be next. Garrard's lawyers haven't indicated whether she will testify.
 
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« Reply #93 on: March 16, 2015, 07:27:45 AM »

http://www.wptv.com/news/national/savannah-hardins-running-death-trial-could-hinge-on-1-word-from-911-recording
Savannah Hardin's running death trial could hinge on 1 word from 911 recording
March 15, 2015

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) -- One word on a 911 recording could help decide the fate of an Alabama woman accused of making her granddaughter run until she died.

With 9-year-old Savannah Hardin lying unconscious following an afternoon of running and a 911 operator listening over the phone, Joyce Hardin Garrard asked for something - either a cigarette or a blanket. The request, depending on exactly what she said, could be considered callousness or compassion.

Garrard, who is on trial for capital murder, says she is innocent. It is unclear whether she will testify about what happened that day in rural northeast Alabama.

The trial will continue Monday after the judge gave jurors Thursday and Friday off without explanation. Prosecutors have indicated they are near the end of their case.

On the Feb. 17, 2012, recording, played in court Tuesday, Garrard is heard in the background as the girl's stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, talked for more than 11 minutes with Lori Beth Beggs, a 911 operator in Etowah County.

Neighbors have testified they saw Garrard forcing the child to run and pick up sticks and firewood in the yard. Garrard was making her granddaughter run as punishment for a lie about eating candy, prosecutors said. The girl eventually collapsed and died three days later.

Hardin - awaiting trial on a murder charge in the child's death - made the call seeking help for Savannah.

"My daughter had a seizure," Hardin says at the beginning.

Speaking in a loud voice as Hardin talks to Beggs, Garrard is heard repeatedly saying the child's name and asking her to wake up.

"Savannah. Savannah," Garrard says in a steady voice. "Savannah, open your eyes."

Then, nearly three minutes into the recording, with Savannah still unresponsive, Garrard makes a request.

"Give me a smoke," Beggs testified the woman said.

The defense maintains she said: "Give me a throw," referring to a small blanket.

While jurors have listened to the recording, Circuit Judge Billy Ogletree refused to let them see a transcript of the audio prepared for the defense.

What the jurors believe she said could be vital. If Garrard asked for a cigarette while the girl lay before her dying, jurors could agree with prosecutors that the woman was angry and meant to kill the child by running her for hours.

If they believe the woman said "throw," jurors could see that as sign Garrard was worried and trying to help the girl. Other testimony showed that the girl was wrapped in a small blanket when firefighters and paramedics arrived.

The judge has issued a gag order that bars lawyers, witnesses and others from discussing the case publicly. Yet the importance of that one word became obvious while Beggs, the 911 operator, was on the stand.

Beggs testified that Hardin and Garrard seemed unusually calm during the call. Beggs said relatives witnessing a seizure typically are panicky.

"I've never had anyone in four years ask for a cigarette," she testified.

Defense lawyer Richard Rhea pressed Beggs on exactly what Garrard had asked for.

"Did she, in fact, say `Give me a throw?'" Rhea said.

"No. `Give me a smoke,'" Beggs responded firmly.

It's up to the jury to decide.
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« Reply #94 on: March 16, 2015, 07:29:14 AM »

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/03/3_quick_takeaways_from_joyce_g.html
Savannah Hardin running death trial: 3 things to know about Joyce Garrard case
March 12, 2015

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http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/03/joyce_garrard_verdict.html#incart_breaking


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« Reply #96 on: March 26, 2015, 09:09:18 PM »

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Jurors-to-recommend-penalty-in-girl-s-running-6159998.php
Jury: Life sentence for grandmother in girl's running death
March 26, 2015

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — A jury recommended life without parole Thursday for an Alabama woman convicted of running her granddaughter to death.
Jurors rejected prosecutors' pleas for a death sentence for Joyce Hardin Garrard in the February 2012 death of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin. The decision came on a split vote: seven for life, five for death. It also came on Garrard's 50th birthday.
Members of her family cried in the courtroom after the sentence recommendation was announced, but Garrard was stone-faced as deputies led her back to jail.
Under Alabama law, a vote of at least 10 of 12 jurors was required for the panel to recommend death. A simple majority could recommend life.
The verdict is only a suggestion under Alabama law. Circuit Judge Billy Ogletree will make the final sentencing decision at a hearing May 11 and could still impose death, but prosecutors said they wouldn't ask him to override jurors.
The same jury convicted Garrard of capital murder last week.
Defense attorney Dani Bone said he plans to appeal the conviction.
"Joyce Garrard did not receive a fair trial," he said. Bone noted that the judge excluded medical evidence that the defense wanted to present. He also said the defense has evidence at least four jurors were on Facebook during the trial, despite the judge's admonitions to avoid social media.
District Attorney Jimmie Harp said he isn't worried about the case being overturned on appeal and was "very pleased" both with Garrard's conviction and the jury's recommendation.
"We believe Savannah Hardin received justice today," Harp said.
Deputy prosecutor Marcus Reid said Savannah's death might have gone unsolved if neighbors hadn't contacted investigators after she was hospitalized.
"They are heroes in this case," Reid said.
 
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« Reply #97 on: April 30, 2015, 06:14:39 PM »

waiting for May 11th.

 
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« Reply #98 on: May 11, 2015, 05:02:04 PM »

5/11 Joyce Garrard sentenced to life in prison for running death of her grandchild

"The Etowah County grandmother convicted of running her granddaughter to death was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

Joyce Garrard was convicted in March of this year in the death of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin. She was seen running and carrying firewood before she collapsed and later died.

Testimony indicated it was punishment for lying about candy bars.

Garrard's co-defendent in this case, Savannah's step-mother Jessica Hardin, faces a lesser charge of murder. No trial date has been set.

Continue to follow this story for updates."

http://www.wsfa.com/story/29033567/joyce-garrard-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-running-death-of-her-grandchild
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« Reply #99 on: May 11, 2015, 05:04:45 PM »

Different article same title,

5/11 Joyce Garrard sentenced to life in Savannah Hardin running death case

"Etowah County Judge William "Billy" Ogletree today sentenced Joyce Hardin Garrard, 50, to life in prison without parole for forcing her granddaughter to run for hours until she collapsed and died.

Garrard, wearing a burgundy T-shirt, spoke briefly before the sentence was passed, telling Ogletree the only thing she would change would be "my granddaughter being with me as always." She added, "What you give me is what I'll have to do." "

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2015/05/joyce_garrard_sentenced_in_sav.html#incart_m-rpt-2
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