Phillip and Nancy Garrido are headed toward trial after being indicted in connection with allegations that they kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991 and held her for 18 years in a backyard compound outside Antioch, Nancy Garrido's lawyer said Wednesday. 
 
 The attorney, Steve Tapson, said an El Dorado County grand jury handed up the indictment Tuesday or Wednesday, just over a year after the Aug. 26, 2009, arrest of the Garridos and the rescue of Dugard. 
 
 Tapson said he did not know who had testified at the secret proceeding or what charges were alleged. Efforts to reach prosecutors were unsuccessful. 
 
 A preliminary hearing in the case had been scheduled for next month when a judge would have decided whether to send the case to trial. Now, Tapson said, the Garridos may be arraigned on the charges laid out in the indictment at their next court date Oct. 1. 
 
 "I don't like grand juries. I never have," Tapson said. "We don't get to see or question witnesses, even if they're police officers." 
 
 A spokeswoman for Dugard, 30, who had two daughters allegedly by Phillip Garrido, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 Tapson said defense attorneys would have to decide soon whether to try to move the trial from El Dorado County. But he added, "Where are we going to go? It's hard to find a place where no one has ever heard of this." 
 
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 Couple Indicted for Abducting Jaycee Dugard 
 
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 A grand jury has indicted Phillip and Nancy Garrido in the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard , who was taken from her South Lake Tahoe home 19 years earlier, an attorney says.The panel concluded its review of the case earlier this week and an arraignment will be scheduled, says attorney Stephen Tapson, who represents Nancy. Tapson says he was surprised by the indictment."I had assumed they weren't going to," Tapson says. "I'm surprised they waited so long."He says his client is upset that Jaycee and the two daughters fathered by Garrido haven't visited the couple in jail."They're still running out my Kleenex budget," Tapson says. " She wants to see the kids and Jaycee."Prosecutors have said that Jaycee doesn't want to see the Garridos, and they have also refused to tell the couple's lawyers where Jaycee and the girls are living.Tapson adds that he remains hopeful that a plea deal can be worked out in which the defendants plead guilty and get some sentence other than life without parole.This summer, the state agreed to pay $20 million to settle the family's claim that the parole of Phillip Garrido, a violent convicted sex offender, was poorly supervised.
– It took more than a year after their arrest, but Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been indicted in the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard. Nancy Garrido’s lawyer says a grand jury handed up the indictment this week after secret proceedings. Now the couple can be arraigned on the charges as soon as Oct. 1, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “I had assumed they weren't going to” indict, the lawyer tells People. “I'm surprised they waited so long.” Perhaps more surprising than that is the fact that Nancy Garrido is upset that Dugard and her two daughters—fathered by Phillip Garrido—haven’t visited the couple in jail. “They're still running out my Kleenex budget,” the lawyer says. “She wants to see the kids and Jaycee.”