Judge denies motion to revoke her bail
By G. Romero Wendorf
No worry for accused murderess Monica Melissa Patterson, former hospice administrator – she’s not headed back to the county jail pending her Sept. 18th capital murder trial. Last Wednesday, state District Court Judge Noe Gonzalez (the 370th) denied the Hidalgo County DA’s motion to revoke her bond.
Instead, the judge ordered that her monitoring system (ankle bracelet GPS tracker) be upgraded. Now, if the battery dies, as it did last month when Patterson went off the grid, so to speak, for approximately two hours and 45 minutes in the middle of the night, the Dallas-based company that monitors the system will immediately alert an officer who works for the county’s Alternate Incarceration Program (AIP). The officer will then get dressed at 3 a.m. (which was the approximate time that Patterson went off the grid) and rush to the house where
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