Judge Alfred Delucchi scolded Modesto police Monday.
Posted on 06/29/2004 5:38:51 AM PDT by runningbear
Judge tells Peterson jury to keep quiet
Article Last Updated: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 3:39:53 AM PST
Judge tells Peterson jury to keep quiet
REDWOOD CITY -- The judge in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial Monday warned all of the trial participants not to talk about the case to the media.
Judge Alfred Delucchi was responding to stories that surfaced at the end of last week, when a representative of the Modesto Police Department publicly defended Detective Al Brocchini, who has been the subject of harsh criticism by Peterson's lawyer Mark Geragos during his time on the witness stand.
"This has to stop. Go tell the chief he's going to have to sit on his people," Delucchi told a Modesto police captain. .........
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MONDAY
Judge Alfred Delucchi scolded Modesto police Monday.
Lead defense attorney Mark Geragos continued his quest to show that Modesto police zeroed in on his client, Scott Peterson, while ignoring other credible leads that poured in after 27-year-old Laci Peterson was reported missing.
First Geragos pointed to Kim McGregor, a neighbor who admitted to police that she stole a video camera, several jackets and Laci Peterson's Social Security card from the Petersons' Covena Avenue home.
He also suggested that Amber Frey, Scott Peterson's former girlfriend, held back some taped phone calls from authorities after agreeing to secretly record her conversations with Scott.
The suggestions came during a wide-ranging cross-examination of Detective Al Brocchini, who took the witness stand for a fourth day.
Also, Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi released dozens ........
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Defense turns to other suspects
The judge in the Peterson trial released photos Monday, including this one of the rags Scott Peterson said he took out of the washing machine when he returned from fishing Dec. 24, 2002.
Defense turns to other suspects
Evidence photo released Monday by the judge in the Peterson trial.
Evidence photo released Monday by the judge in the Peterson trial.
By JOHN COTÉ and SUSAN HERENDEEN
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: June 29, 2004, 05:31:25 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- Kim McGregor appeared to be infatuated with Scott Peterson, and she robbed his home after his wife disappeared.
Monday, Peterson's defense team pointed to the Peterson neighbor as an indication that police ignored other suspects in the missing-person case that turned into a double homicide.
Lead attorney Mark Geragos also suggested that Peterson's former girlfriend, Amber Frey -- after she agreed to secretly record her conversations with Peterson -- did not reveal some of the calls.
The questioning about McGregor and Frey came as Geragos cross-examined Modesto police Detective Al Brocchini for a third day. The defense scored a blow toward the end of last week when Brocchini admitted that he "excised" a key piece of information from a police report.
Sgt. Ed Steele came to Brocchini's defense Friday in an interview with The Associated Press, violating a gag order in the case. This led to a warning -- but no sanctions -- from Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi to the Police Department.
Delucchi reminded all of the participants that the order issued by Stanislaus County Judge Al Girolami before the trial began forbids not only the attorneys and police from commenting on the case but also any witnesses who have been subpoenaed, including family members of either Scott or Laci Peterson. The judge said that while he did not want to be a "policeman," he would not hesitate to use his authority to prevent anyone involved in the trial from talking to the media.
"If it doesn't stop, I'm going to have to do something ...........
(Excerpt) Read more at sanmateocountytimes.com ...
Exactly! Initial denial--a normal human reaction to such a horrible thing.
Hey, try either misfitting or psychesknot. One of them has good pictures of that open phone book. It's open to a large, full-page, color ad for a criminal defense attorney, and it lists various crimes, with MURDER at the top of the list.
Peterson is going to be acquitted. Personally, I'm so sick of hearing about this case I'll be happy its no longer in the news, no matter the result.
It was one murder, in a year full of them.
Good find.
What year was that?
I think you're right, he's had the 3 attorneys you listed.
If he did call that other guy, no one will ever know, b/c the attorney won't disclose it. And if Scott consulted with him, even briefly and w/o hiring him, client confidentiality applies.
Ping to #47
Didn't hear anything myself.
It was on CTV. A fellow who has known Scott for many years reported that Scott told him back in 1995 how to dispose of a body. Dump it in water. The fingers, teeth, etc. would be gone.
Any other details? So,I guess they're finally done with Broccini?
I'm TV deprived at the moment.
I have the July 2001 Pacific Bell Smart Yellow Page here with that ad, and personally I wouldn't give too much thought to it as evidence. While it might have been eerie to see Hermans ad with its bright red "MURDER" title in a crimescene, it happens to be the only glossy cardstock ad in the entire book, and it's designed so that the phonebook will always open to that page if it's set down on its spine. I just set the book on its spine five times, with the book fully closed, and it opened to that ad every single time. That's what it's designed to do (Herman must have spent a fortune to have this put in).
Yes-that's the anchor they found at the warehouse.
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I say...... tell Fox News and the rest........... to keep quiet on the Peterson case.
WOOW!
just go and shut the bloob tube off, switch channels... .... ;o)
Thanks
do you or have you seen this link?
Haven't forgotten Jax. As I said yesterday Geragos is a puffed up puke. He's not a defense attorney. He's a Hollywood sideshow., A clown. Any Justice that comes out of his behaviour will be purely by accident.
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