[Unidentified Reporter:] A Texas mom allegedly did some holiday shopping at Walmart and tried to walk out of the store with DVDs, sweater, shoes, cups, cans of coffee and a hair brush. Only she forgot to pay. Mom was about to be busted for shoplifting goods and that`s not all. She also allegedly forgets her children and drives off. Police say the children ages 2 and 3 were left behind.
[Grace:] Everybody, we are going live to Dallas, the shoplifting mom. She flees Walmart with stolen DVDs, sweaters, shoes, the works. But oops, she leaves behind her two children, ages 2 and 3. Out to you, Justin Freiman. Tell me what happened.
[Freiman:] This Texas mom goes into the Walmart. She starts loading her card up with a bunch of items, movies, cans of Starbucks coffee
[Grace:] Whoa, wait a minute. I like the mugshot. I`ll close my eyes and pretend it`s not happening. OK. Go ahead.
[Freiman:] Right. Or maybe she was trying to remember something, because obviously not only did she forget to pay for the items
[Grace:] Her chidlren.
[Freiman:] she forgot her kids as she`s running away from the store, as they`re about to bust her for shoplifting.
[Grace:] So how did they find the children, Justin?
[Freiman:] Well, she leaves the children behind in the cart with some of the items that she was leaving the store without paying for. Gets in her car then drives off.
[Grace:] So how did they find the children? She leaves the children behind in the cart with some of the items that she was leaving the store without paying for. Getting in her car and drives off. All right. Out to the lawyers, Cevallos and Hormozdi. All right, Danny Cevallos, what`s your defense? Let me think, what is it black Friday insanity? She just got overcome with shopping there after Thanksgiving at the Walmart?
[Cevallos:] Well, retail theft has a lot of range, Nancy, depending on her priors or whatever the value is.
[Grace:] A lot of range?
[Cevallos:] So this is a defensible case, at least as far as leaving the kids.
[Grace:] Forget the DVDs. Cevallos, I don`t care about the DVDs.
[Cevallos:] Moving on.
[Grace:] She can have my DVDs and my minivan right now. She could have all of them, it`s like 40 in there for the children.
[Cevallos:] So let`s talk children.
[Grace:] I would be mad if she didn`t take them. I`m worried about the 2 and 3-year-old she leaves in the parking lot. That`s my problem.
[Cevallos:] So so in this case, it becomes a DHS case, a petition maybe to take the kids away. The argument is in the grand scheme of things, making a run, we don`t know if she was planning to come back to the children or whether she wasn`t permanently abandoning them.
[Grace:] Come back.
[Cevallos:] So I think that`s going to
[Grace:] Cevallos, let me get into your personal business again. Do you have any children?
[Cevallos:] Nancy, that`s a very sad inquiry. No children, no wife, no nothing. No one`s looking for me.
[Grace:] OK. I`m going to fix you up after the show, but, Danny, don`t talk about, is she coming back for them.
[Shireen Hormozdi, Defense Attorney:] No, I don`t.
[Grace:] OK. All right, guys.
[Hormozdi:] But don`t fix me with Cevallos.
[Grace:] I`m totally striking out here. But let me tell the two of you. Freiman, you`ve got children now.
[Freiman:] That`s right.
[Grace:] OK. Justin, it`s not, is she coming back for the children. The issue is, did she leave the children? Did she leave them in the parking lot where they could get run over?
[Freiman:] She did. She left them in the lot in the cart with the items.