Jasper County prosecutors have filed suggestions in opposition to Brandie McLean's request to have her forgery charges remanded for a preliminary hearing.
Ms. McLean, 28, Joplin, waived her initial preliminary hearing Feb. 17 shortly before she pleaded guilty in Jasper County Circuit Court. Since then she has withdrawn the guilty plea and on July 1, through her new attorney Juddson McPherson of Joplin, she filed the request for a preliminary hearing.
Ms. McLean withdrew her guilty plea after discovering it could have a damaging impact on her efforts to regain custody of her children, who were taken from her following an incident in which her two-year-old somehow climbed out on the roof while Ms. McLean was sleeping in her house, a situation she attributed to prescription drugs she was taking.
One of those children, eight-year-old Braxton Wooden, was shot to death June 2 at the Alba foster home in which he was staying.
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