11-03-2008, 09:29 PM
The story on CNN's website had this additional info...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/03/stev...index.html
Hinnant, 52, brought a stack of handwritten notes with her to the court on Monday along with public defender A.J. Kramer, and told the judge that her father hadn't died and she was at the Breeders' Cup in Arcadia, California.
She apologized for lying, and then started a long rambling story about horses, which included references to horse breeding, the Breeders' Cup, drugs, President Ford's son Steven and her condo in Florida being bugged.
"I am thoroughly convinced you would not have been able to continue to deliberate," Sullivan interrupted.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/03/stev...index.html