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Scott Peterson - who murdered his wife and unborn child in 2002 - loses new trial bid and will remain behind bars for the rest of his life.......(Yes!)
Daily mail ^ | 12/20/2022 | Alexa Olivera

Posted on 12/20/2022 6:29:12 PM PST by caww

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To: Secret Agent Man

You don’t need a weapon to convict, since one isn’t always used or found. The weapon could have been strangulation or drowning her in the pool.

Circumstantial Evidence is strong enough evidence.


21 posted on 12/20/2022 8:50:55 PM PST by sumuam
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She wasn’t mutilated, though. He dumped her in the water with weights, one probably attached to her head, legs and arms, and it separated during the decaying process, and the only thing left was her abdomen where the baby expelled. When police asked where he was that day, he immediately pulled out the parking ticket for the bay, and told them, I can prove I was there. Glad there will no second trial, with the way they’re releasing monsters these days. He might not ever do something like that, again, but he should only leave prison in a pine box.


22 posted on 12/20/2022 8:59:21 PM PST by sumuam
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To: Steely Tom

I think the man is gutless and heartless....

Lets say he didn’t do it....my gosh his behavior and actions were enough to wonder about him from the get go. The guy was continuing his affair while they’re searching for his wife and child....and the list could go on.


23 posted on 12/20/2022 9:00:06 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

He pretended to be calling from Paris on New Year’s Eve to the woman he was dating, at his wife’s vigil. Like Chris Watts, Christopher Coleman, and several others in the past, he’s not the first to off his wife and kids to start a new life with someone else, and avoid a messy divorce and child support.


24 posted on 12/20/2022 9:06:50 PM PST by sumuam
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To: dfwgator; caww
Guy probably gets a bunch of love letters from desperate chicks, just like Richard Ramirez did.

I think all these high profile scum bags, get lots of fan mail, quite literally, from all over the world. San Quentin’s death row, is about the safest place in the state. Since he has been taken off death row, who knows where he is now, but more than likely, he will be in Ad/Seg for the duration. He will be safe, from all the other inmates.

25 posted on 12/20/2022 9:17:11 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: sumuam

Only he landed in prison where he belongs.


26 posted on 12/20/2022 9:34:57 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

I thought he was 200% guilty, but and I heard some of the evidence that was not allowed in the trial I had a different perspective. He probably should get a new trial where all the evidence is allowed. The government shouldn’t be able to prevent valid exculpatory evidence from being heard by the jury.


27 posted on 12/20/2022 9:38:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

This guy would create additional evidence when you consider how the evidence that got him convictd showed how he did it in the first place.


28 posted on 12/20/2022 9:59:10 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: BipolarBob
It was all circumstantial and the guy is a liar,,

If he was a she and her had husband disappeared. She would be free today.....,

can somebody mention kasey Anthony please...

Unlike Kasey ..He (scott) had a tinge of soul left in him somewhere,thats why he got caught.

29 posted on 12/21/2022 2:16:59 AM PST by Ikeon (Stupid Should Hurt.. "he didn't deserve that" is a misnomer, We all have cheated death sometime. )
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To: Secret Agent Man
Legally, the only requirement to prove a homicide case is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

If you had a single witness to someone shooting an unknown person on a bridge and then tossing the gun and shoving the body over the edge, the lack of a motive or body or weapon or even any forensic evidence would be no bar to conviction -- assuming that a jury and reviewing judges found the witness sufficiently credible.

Many of us would not meet that standard, but if Cardinal Dolan saw it done on the Brooklyn Bridge, most New York juries would convict after less than an hour of deliberations -- and the conviction would stand.

30 posted on 12/21/2022 2:22:44 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Secret Agent Man

His girlfriend, Amber Frey, worked with the police and taped incriminating statements. Those are hard circumstances for the jury to ignore. She also testified for the prosecution about his statements. An admission is not hearsay.


31 posted on 12/21/2022 3:59:22 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: caww
That guy should serve as a warning to any woman who is head over heels about an attractive-looking man when her gut is telling her there's something wrong about being with him. He sure doesn't look so hot any more:


32 posted on 12/21/2022 7:48:22 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: dfwgator
Guy probably gets a bunch of love letters from desperate chicks, just like Richard Ramirez did.

That's pretty much a guarantee.

33 posted on 12/21/2022 8:09:36 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,762,307 | Truth Social | 87,863,616 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: Albion Wilde
What a dirt-bag scum murderer looks like


34 posted on 12/21/2022 8:48:30 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Rockingham

Who was the witness in this case?


35 posted on 12/21/2022 10:37:08 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: caww

You have to admit his features are objectively handsome, if you did not know what lay ahead. It’s a warning that looks can be quite deceptive.


36 posted on 12/21/2022 11:01:47 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I forgot about this. Yes this is evidence all right.


37 posted on 12/21/2022 2:51:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway
A direct independent witness to a murder is not needed. Proof of the murder is needed, which came most forcefully in the form of the autopsy on Laci Peterson. Scott Peterson's interviews with the police and statements to family, girlfriends, and third parties were loaded with evasions, lies, and the occasional confession or self-incriminating comment. In effect, Scott Peterson was a witness against himself. There was and is no credible basis in fact for doubting his guilt.
38 posted on 12/21/2022 8:04:07 PM PST by Rockingham
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