As a judge convicted her Monday of brutally dragging a toddler beneath her truck in a hit-and-run case that?s gripped the community, Lazara Arellano de Hogue sat expressionless. But the verdict began to sink in.

Minutes after the once-packed courtroom cleared, Arellano de Hogue, a Mexican immigrant and mother of four, began to talk in rapid Spanish with her attorney.

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