Posted on 06/03/2004 5:50:30 AM PDT by runningbear
ALL SNIP ITS:
First full day of testimony in Laci Peterson murder case
Redwood City, California-AP _ The first full day of testimony gets under way today in Scott Peterson's murder trial in Redwood City, California.
He's accused of murdering his wife and their unborn son.
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Geragos deconstructs prosecution's case against Peterson
Article Last Updated: Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 3:09:35 AM PST
Geragos deconstructs prosecution's case against Peterson
Defense attorney: Fetus was born full-term therefore defendant's not responsible for murders
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson is a cad not a killer, his defense attorney said Wednesday as he began an assault on the very essence of the evidence against Peterson -- when his wife and child died.
In the scenario cast by attorney Mark Geragos, the child was born alive weeks after Christmas Eve 2002, the date prosecutors say his mother, Laci Peterson, had been killed.
"If this baby was born alive, clearly Scott Peterson had nothing to do with this murder," Geragos explained to the six men and six women of the jury. .......
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Peterson's lawyer attacks investigators' work
"Posted on Thu, Jun. 03, 2004
Peterson's lawyer attacks investigators' work
By Brian Anderson
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
REDWOOD CITY - Saying Scott Peterson was "stone-cold innocent," defense attorney Mark Geragos blasted the police detectives Wednesday who investigated the murder of Laci Peterson and the thin case he said they cobbled together against her husband.
In his first chance to lay out his side of the case, Geragos said Modesto police believed early on that Peterson had something to do with his wife's Dec. 24, 2002, disappearance and they worked to prove only that. Through slipshod detective work, lies and far-fetched theories, they built a laughable case from circumstantial evidence that led to the prosecution of an innocent man, he said.
"The evidence is going to show beyond any doubt that not only is Scott Peterson not guilty.""......
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Circus talk pans out
First day draws media, gawkers and other crazies.
Circus talk pans out
First day draws media, gawkers and other crazies.
Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/060204n_peterson2
REDWOOD CITY -- The same gravity that is holding together the "12 galaxies" apparently had enough pull to draw San Francisco's eccentric sign-toting icon, Frank Chiu, and others looking for a little collateral publicity, to the Redwood City Courthouse on Tuesday for the start of the Scott Peterson murder trial.
Parked near the courthouse in a van covered with biblical and anti-abortion messages, Ronald Brock of San Diego sought attention for his message that killing an unborn child, through abortion or any other means, is a crime.
"Murder is murder, give Conner justice," read a banner on the van. Conner was the name Scott and Laci Peterson planned to give their unborn child before a pregnant Laci disappeared in late 2002. Her husband is facing two counts of murder for their deaths.".....
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Geragos: Peterson didn't do it
Geragos: Peterson didn't do it
By GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITER
Last Updated: June 2, 2004, 01:32:27 PM PDT
1:23 p.m., PDT: REDWOOD CITY - Scott Peterson had nothing to do with his pregnant wife’s murder - and his legal team will prove it, defense attorney Mark Geragos declared dramatically this morning during his opening statement.
“The evidence is going to show clearly, beyond any doubt, that not only was Scott not guilty, but stone-cold innocent,” Geragos told jurors.
Peterson, 31, of Modesto, came under media and police scrutiny after Laci Peterson vanished Dec. 24, 2002. But Peterson had no opportunity to kill her and their unborn son, Conner, Geragos said.
Evidence will show the baby was born alive, the Los Angeles lawyer announced in a series of revelations. They include:
Laci Peterson knew that her husband bought a fishing boat shortly before she vanished - and “was in the boat Dec. 20.”
The Petersons didn’t talk about the boat, even during......
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And this is what had many a pundit gaga over Geragos' coutroom presence last night.
How revolting. It's OJ redux, where we had to witness commentator after commentator marvel over Cochran's deceptive ways.
It's like the media loving the way Clinton could tell a lie.
Sick
Even Judge Napolitano seems impressed. UGH.
Listening to CTV, reading some CTV threads.
And the funny thing is that neither Clinton or Geragos are any good. I know, I know. They said Clinton was a skilled politician, but he got caught with his slime time and time again. The only reason he weasled out of paying for his crimes was because even after he was convicted of them, his fellow democrats refused to make him pay a penalty.
Mark my words. Geragos will lose this case and the media will still call him talented.
Hell, why retire when people like geragos LIKE what you bring to the table. And Court T.V. gives you your own Forensic program. He's a fool with a ketchup bottle and a Charlie Chan bag of mysteries to be solved by him.
My thoughts exactly. He's trying to be a Johnny Cochran. Although I heard Cochran on LKL a few months ago say that you have to make the Jury LIKE your client. He said, when the lies and/or affairs start piling up too high, it becomes pretty hard. Also, you can never REALLY Judge what a Jury is really thinking. You may think they are bored when they are in fact really listening and when they laugh, it's not any indication of what they will do with the evidence in the back room. I heard that from a lady that served on two Juries.
It doesn't matter what the judge says; she was wearing light/khaki pants the last time she was seen alive; and that is not what Scott told the police he last saw her in.
Can anybody name a case that Mickey, the expert attorney, has won?
I swear, sometimes I really DO think we are the only people in the whole world who actually have enough common sense left to separate truth from lies. How so many can so often be fooled by spin and slick words are beyond my ablility to understand.
Cream capri pants; black shirt with cream dots......Mary Jane shoes.
Amy testified that that is what she was wearing at the Salon.
The pants thing really has already been established. Geragos may try and likely will but Amy went shopping with Laci when she bought the maternity clothing and Amy herself, identified the label inside the waistband as I recall from before.
Really! I heard him pontificating yesterday on a political matter and I was in complete disagreement with him.
Did somebody drop him on his head recently?
depends on what the definition of "win" is... :)
Howdy Howlin. You're doin' a yeomans job here. thanks
LOL! Well, he almost won the Skakal case. If it weren't for the TRUTH coming out, that is..
Oh, yeah, that..........LOL!
I hope it helps!!!
I know exactly how you feel.
Geragos's gaggle are primarily
ambulance chasers themselves who
aspire his "greatness."
Greta has her own show, but
you watch the others, save for
Jeffrey Feiger who I think hates
Geragos.
The media chumps love this,
and I resent having to get
our info second hand from them.
You both need to watch Geoffrey Feiger on Greta's show.....HE isn't impressed, believe me. He went off like a ROCKET last night!
He must have said 96 CALLS 50 times!
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