will come out,” the lawyer, Robert M. Baum, with Office of the Federal Public Defender, told reporters. “She will be looked at in a different light.”

Ms. Pettway, who has not yet been indicted, appeared alert and calm in court, wearing spectacles and conferring with her lawyers, in part to ask that her medicine for high blood pressure be delivered to jail. Mr. Baum said they would consider requesting bail in two weeks.

Three members from each of the two families embroiled in the case were present in the crowded courtroom. Carlina White’s biological father, Carl Tyson, and two supporters stared long and hard at the two men and one woman who were there in support of Ms. Pettway, but no words were exchanged.

As for Ms. White, she has notSaturday, Ms. Pettway went to Joe Davis Pawnbroker in Bridgeport. When she left, the clerk in the shop, who had seen her picture on television, called the police, who conducted a fruitless search. Ms. Pettway had apparently walked about a mile and a half to Stratford.

But after she, too, saw herself on television, she contacted the Bridgeport police, a law enforcement official said.

Ms. White has told relatives that she has long suspected that the family that raised her was not her own. But it was only this month when Ms. White turned to a Web site of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that she discovered a photograph that matched an infant photo of herself.

In the course of the investigation in recent weeks, a DNA test