Plesie Nichols waits while her attorney Andrew Duclair examines a letter she sent from jail to the judge in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Thomas Brown in Trenton on Friday, October 25, 2013. At a plea hearing a year ago she admitted to tying her daughter to a banister with ropes, causing severe injuries to the girl’s arms. Today she said that was not true. Martin Griff / The Times of Trenton