WANDA BROWN A Circuit Court judge decided to revoke the bond of a southern Cherokee County woman recently arrested in Spartanburg County while awaiting trial on a Cherokee County murder charge.

Last week in Cherokee County General Sessions Court, the 7th Circuit Solicitors Office requested the revocation of Wanda Denise Brown's $30,000 bond on an Oct. 5, 2008, murder charge, alleging she was twice arrested in Spartanburg County, once May 25 and again May 31.

At the time of Brown's latest charges, she was under an order of home confinement with a 7 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew — a condition imposed upon her when her $30,000 bond was originally set last year.

She also was subject to electronic monitoring — a condition imposed upon her last March after she was arrested for DUI on Feb. 14 following a 5:15 a.m. traffic stop in the City of Gaffney.

Assistant Solicitor Kim Leskanic alleged in court she also received information of numerous curfew violations from Brown's electronic monitoring.

Online Spartanburg County jail records show Brown was booked May 31 on charges of driving under suspension, improper use of a dealer tag, having an open container, providing false information to police and habitual traffic offender. Jail records show she was released July 6 on a $3,200 bond on those charges.

Brown's lawyer, Albert Smith, argued she was allowed to be away from home for work and she was working hard to meet financial obligations.

Leskanic argued in court none of the latest violations were related to Brown's work. "This isn't job-related," the prosecutor said. "She (Brown) doesn't care about the law."

Circuit Court Judge Roger Couch granted the prosecutor's request to revoke bond. Brown remained lodged at the Cherokee County Detention Center as of Sunday afternoon.

Brown, 36, whose address was listed in court records as Grindall Ford Road, is charged in the Oct. 5, 2008, shooting death of 53-year-old Richard Bryant of Spartanburg inside her former address on Sharon Road.

Attorney Smith previously noted during a prior court hearing that he would be pursuing a self-defense claim on Brown's behalf.

A public defender who previously represented Brown said during her original 2008 bond hearing that Brown and Bryant had been an off-and-on couple. The morning of the shooting, the public defender relayed on Brown's behalf that a physical altercation erupted when Bryant allegedly made a call to have someone deliver drugs to Brown's home. "She told him he could not do that," the attorney had said, adding that an argument then led to Bryant allegedly punching and kicking her.

Later, when someone knocked at the door, the attorney said, another argument erupted because Brown thought the person at the door was delivering drugs. She told Bryant to leave and he allegedly struck her again, knocking her down, the attorney claimed. Brown then picked up a nearby rifle and fired a shot, striking and killing Bryant.

Prosecutors had maintained during Brown's initial bond hearing there was evidence the altercation between Bryant and Brown had ended before she picked up the rifle and that any threat to her had passed by the time the shot was fired.