Colotl, 21, was due in Judge Kathryn J. Tanksley's courtroom Tuesday morning on two traffic citations she received March 29. The case, however, was delayed until Oct. 20, State Court administrator Frank Baker said, but he did not have any information as to why.
In July, Colotl entered a not guilty plea to the traffic violations - including the driving without a license charge that ultimately led to her detention by immigration authorities - but her formal arraignment hearing was waived and she did not appear in court.
The detention and release of Colotl, who has lived in the Atlanta area since she was a child and was attending KSU at the time of the traffic stop, made headlines across the country in early May. Colotl's case prompted the state university system to look at its policy regarding the admission of illegal immigrants to state schools because it was found that Colotl was paying in-state tuition at KSU.
In June, Colotl had requested a jury trial for the traffic citations. A previous arraignment hearing was scheduled on June 2 on the two traffic charges in Cobb State Court's traffic division, but rescheduled for July 3 because her jury trial request moved the case to another division of state court. The July 3 date was rescheduled for July 16 because her attorney was out of town.
Cobb County Solicitor General Barry Morgan, whose office prosecutes misdemeanors, said first-time offenders convicted of driving without a license are typically sentenced to two days in custody and fined about $700. The fine for impeding traffic is $111.
Colotl's attorney is Chris Taylor of Hernan, Taylor and Lee in Norcross. The Journal had previously reported Colotl had returned to class at KSU, but has since been unable to confirm that information.
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El paso is nothing but a racist bigot who hates white people and thereby calls them names without merit.
But now that we've been here a year, you wouldn't believe the paperwork we have to file in order for her to be considered an instate student--Tax information, leases, letters from our employer, even an essay on why my daughter intends to stay in Georgia.
So too bad if I don't feel sorry for this young woman--she knew she was doing wrong when she gave that officer a false address, when she didn't get her driver's license, when she took money from Hope that wasn't available to her.
ps- I know a few, south of our border!!
She knowingly drove without a valid license, and then lied to the police about her address and phone number.
She is an adult - an adult not a young student - who continues to make the poor choices that her illegal parents made. And now she is demanding a jury trial when she knows she had no legal defense and the good citizens and taxpayers have to divert funds from projects they pay for in order to provide her the opportunity to continue to lie in court. I am sure she is not paying her attorneys either, an opportunity closed to legal citizens and taxpayers.
She is a law breaking parasite.