BURGLAR MAY TESTIFY vs. LACI HUBBY

The NY Post ^ | Jan 6 2004 | HOWARD BREUER

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BURGLAR MAY TESTIFY vs LACI HUBBY

BURGLAR MAY TESTIFY vs. LACI HUBBY

By HOWARD BREUER

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January 6, 2004 -- MODESTO, Calif. - A convicted burglar who targeted neighbors of Scott and Laci Peterson around the time Laci disappeared may testify at Scott's murder trial to try to refute testimony from a potentially key defense witness.

Prosecutors filed documents yesterday seeking to allow Steven Wayne Todd, 37, to testify in the sensational case. Last February, Todd was sentenced to more than eight years for burglaries in December 2002.

Prosecutors may try to use Todd to undermine the defense's assertions that detectives zeroed in on Scott Peterson as a suspect early in the case, effectively rejecting other leads that could have led to Laci's true killer.

Possible defense witness Diane Jackson told police she was driving home at 11:40 a.m. Dec. 24. - two hours after Scott says he left Laci to go on a fishing trip - when she spotted something suspicious.

She said she saw three men, presumably Todd and accomplices, standing near a tan van across the street from the Petersons' home, making them potential suspects in the case.

Police insist that Jackson was wrong about the date and that the burglaries actually occurred Dec. 26, two days after Laci vanished.

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Superior Court, Stanislaus County
January 5, 2004

Declaration and Order for Production of Inmate/Witness from Deuel Vocational Institute

Deuel Vocational Institute

Superior Court, Stanislaus County January 2, 2004

Opposition to Motion for Change of Venue; Declaration of Dr. Ebbe Ebbesen, Mark Smith, Caitriona Goss; Points and Authorities in Opposition to Change of Venue

Change of Venue

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Conflicting Polls to Be Presented in Peterson Change of Venue Hearing

Conflicting Polls to Be Presented in Peterson Change of Venue Hearing

A new poll contradicts an earlier finding that Stanislaus County residents weren't unduly influenced by media reports of the Laci Peterson case.

According to a report in The Modesto Bee, a survey authorized by defense attorneys found that citizens of Stanislaus County are more likely to have formed conclusions about the guilt or innocence of Scott Peterson than Bay Area and Southern California residents.

The survey was conducted by Stephen Schoenthaler, a criminal justice professor at California State University, Stanislaus. It questioned 1,175 prospective jurors in ten California counties about their attitudes on the case.

The poll found a wide disparity in results from Laci Peterson's home county and those elsewhere in California. The survey results indicate that nearly 70 percent of Stanislaus residents have formed a strong opinion in the case, compared to less than 50 percent of those living in the Bay Area and Southern California.

The defense is expected to use the results from the latest poll in a change of venue hearing scheduled for January 8.

On Friday, prosecutors with the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office filed a motion to keep the trial in Modesto. Based on the results of a survey conducted by a U.C. .......

Jacko Defense: He Wasn't There

Jacko Defense: He Wasn't There

What kind of defense is Mark Geragos putting together for Michael Jackson? How about: absentee molester?

The word is coming down that Geragos will use the specific dates mentioned in the charges filed against Jackson to exonerate the singer. Those dates — Feb. 7 to March 10, 2003 — will work in Jackson's favor, I am told.

The defense will reconstruct a timeline of Jackson's travels, primarily to Miami, to show that he was rarely in town or at Neverland when the D.A.'s office says he allegedly molested a 13-year-old boy suffering from cancer.

What is known already is that Jackson was in Miami on Jan. 16 last year for the funeral of Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb. Further, according to sources, he was also there on Feb. 6, the night ABC aired the Martin Bashir documentary "Living with Michael Jackson." He was then a guest of Miami lawyer Alvin Malnik.

The defense, I am told, will sketch out Jackson's trips through the six weeks in the police complaint, showing that Jackson was either in Miami or away and didn't have much access to the boy or his family.

Prosecutors will counter that the boy made a trip to Disney World in Orlando, Fla., during that time, and that Jackson saw him there. But even if that turns out to be true, all nine charges against Jackson specify that they took place in Santa Barbara County, Calif., and not anywhere else.

One source close to Jackson suggested to me that possibly he'd been in the Miami recording studio The Hit Factory in early February. But a Hit Factory source went through the facility's 2003 schedule book and concluded for me that Jackson .....

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Books

Laci : Inside the Laci Peterson Murder

and

The Murder of Laci Peterson: The Inside Story of What Really Happened

[Devil_Anse]

Boy, oh, boy, Pinz--wouldn't it be something if Scott had sent a reply fax at the time he'd read that fax? Considering that the fax came in (what was it?) after 11 a.m. Modesto time, and his sending a reply would place him in his warehouse at that time (when he was supposedly already driving to Berkeley)...

[Devil_Anse]

Yes, well, Geragos has such a big mouth, I'm sure it's possible for him to talk out of both sides of it w/o either side even being aware of what the other side is saying!

[Velveeta]

Hey! We should sell our SCOW t-shirts and ballcaps NOW, the market is ripe.

Sandy: Call your dog...$$$$Chaching$$$$

[Devil_Anse]

Looks like we've got our new SCOW T-shirts! Get yours now!

[Velveeta]

ROFL!

[Diver Dave]

I remember hearing about those t-shirts last summer.
I have yet to see one around here - being worn by someone or for sale in any stores. Maybe I need to get out and about more often. :)

[Devil_Anse]

What?? Geragos... LIED about the T-shirts being "hot"??

I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!!

The T-shirt is probably available only in cool touristy T-shirt shops in L.A.!!

[Devil_Anse]

Call her.... dog??

Oh! Oh, yeah! Of COURSE we'll include pet attire in our new line! My dog would look so baaaad, with Scott's face looking up from his back!

I can't wait to get the boys their new ballcaps with Scott's pic, and the logo, "Modesto: A Killer Place to Live!"

I can even imagine the sweet cherubs' reaction: "Mom... that is SO gay!!"

Well, I for one would be proud wearing the new gear!

Hey, and what about that trend of selling young girls shorts that have something written on the butt? I think Scott's face would look great on some young lady's butt!

[Jackie-O]

Well that blows MG's argument away..if you have not seen anyone wearing or selling how could there be prejudice with regard to that??

[Jackie-O]

LOL! You have mail.

[Velveeta]

Ok, so they're not for sale at the "dive shops" yet, eh?

This was the first I've heard of the T-shirts and it strikes me funny that it's from a "court document". LOL

Hopefully, Modesto LE hasn't placed a bulk order like the LE in the Kobe case!

[Velveeta]

"Call her....dog??"

Yes, Sandy's dog's name is $$$Chaching$$$. I think you have to jingle the coins in your pocket before and after you call the dog's name in order to include the $$$$ signs in your call.

The pet attire is brilliant though! What attire would befit a parakeet?

[pinz-n-needlez]

Hee hee, wouldn't that be the best!!??

Wonder if he even had time to put the boat in the water on the 24th. Did he drive back up just to get the ticket, to confuse anyone who may have seen him the night before?

Can't wait to see the actual trial.

Pinz

[Devil_Anse]

Thank you! But, how can you speak of parakeet attire, after what you did to Katy? Poor Katy! He could be anywhere!

[Devil_Anse]

Well, we know he made 3 other trips to the marina, on each of which he just stayed a few minutes in or near the lot, then left!

I remember reading, months ago, that there were only something like 5 of those marina parking lot parking tickets sold that day. That means that even if they didn't have Scott's ticket, once he told them he paid and went into the lot, he'd only have 5 possible arrival times to choose from (to try to get his story straight.) Because I imagine the machine has its own little time-of-sale records inside it...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Yeah, Slim in San Diego (actually LaJolla). Tried to get together with Travis McGee but schedule wouldn't allow. Back in the boonies now.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've got a Dell 'cause that's what the company buys. Its a Latitude which isn't the lightest thing around, but it can take 2 batteries (one in the floppy bay, since floppies are useless today I keep a USB 256K jumpdrive on my keychain when I have to move data by sneaker net) I've gotten about 6 hours of life out of the batteries doing CAD. Get one with both a modem and the 10 or 100 base T type connector (RJ-45?) because lots of hotels have "free high speed internet".

[Canadian Outrage]

Can I?? WHOO HOO!!

[Canadian Outrage]

HERE IT COMES!! I have KNOWN all along that he was going to push for an LA Jury. May God Himself, say NO!! He wants to be on home turf and he wants to be away from Northern California. The Law actually states doesn't it Dev, that Defendants are to be tried by a Jury of their piers "IN THE AREA IN WHICH THEY LIVE"?

[Canadian Outrage]

Happy New Year OP & BLONDEE 123!!