Nicholas v. Cochran

POLEN, Judge.

Petitioner Marisita Nicholas has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus claiming that her bad in the amount of $100,000.00 is excessive. We grant the petition.

Within the same hearing the trial court increased the amount of bad from $30,-000 to $100,000 after hearing testimony which indicated that petitioner possessed assets other than those the trial court considered earlier at the hearing. The value or the liquidity of these other assets was not explored. Additionady, the increase does not seem to have been prompted by any testimony in connection with the purposes of bad and…