Perhaps an image makeover will help.
Posted on 07/06/2004 5:29:41 AM PDT by runningbear
PETERSON LAWYER SET FOR TIRADE
PETERSON LAWYER SET FOR TIRADE
By HOWARD BREUER
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July 6, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — When Scott Peterson's double-murder trial resumes today, defense attorney Mark Geragos is expected to go on another rant and ask the judge to dismiss the case due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Geragos' ire revolves around the testimony of a police detective who recounted for the jury a tip he had received just after Scott Peterson's arrest but dismissed as implausible.
Modesto Detective Allen Brocchini told the jury that a college classmate of Peterson's told him how the defendant had once described how he'd commit the perfect murder.
"He said he would tie a bag around the neck with duct tape, put weights on the hands and throw it into the sea," Brocchini testified.
Geragos is expected to accuse prosecutors of letting Brocchini embellish his account to explain an error or omission made at Peterson's expense.
Brocchini said there were other statements by the classmate.......
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Duct tape is a sticky detail for Det. Brocchini
Duct tape is a sticky detail for Det. Brocchini
Officer's statement surrounding a tip to police turns out to be inaccurate
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- When Laci Peterson's body washed up on a shore of the San Francisco Bay in April 2003, a line of duct tape was wrapped around the lower torso.
The grisly detail was first seen by jurors in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial in a photograph displayed during the prosecution's opening statement. Duct tape was mentioned in the courtroom last week by Modesto police Det. Al Brocchini -- the lead investigator in Laci Peterson's disappearance and murder -- who described a phoned-in tip he received a week after her body was found.
The tip came from one of Peterson's former acquaintances. According to Brocchini's report, the acquaintance said Peterson gave a detailed account in 1995 of how he would dispose of a corpse by tying "a bag around the neck with duct tape, put weights on the hands, and throw it into the sea" where fish could eat away at it, making it hard to identify. ......
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AXED LACI JUROR: 'I GET DEATH THREATS'
AXED LACI JUROR: 'I GET DEATH THREATS'
By HOWARD BREUER
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July 4, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The juror who got kicked off the Scott Peterson jury claims he's received hate mail and death threats for criticizing the prosecution — and says he's so scared, he's moving to another state.
Justin Falconer, 28, told The Post that after saying he believed prosecutors haven't proven Peterson's guilt, he became a lightning rod for trial-watchers.
He said he's complained to the San Mateo Police Department about the threats, and he and his girlfriend are arranging to get out of Dodge........
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Peterson prosecutors still looking for that damning detail
Peterson prosecutors still looking for that damning detail
Monday, July 5, 2004
By BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press Writer
REDWOOD CITY -- It's the prosecution's disjointed story, legal experts say, that likely has jurors in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial questioning what really happened to his pregnant wife.
But there may be a good reason for their failure to weave the cohesive tale.
Prosecutors don't have enough hard evidence to be forceful in their claim that Peterson committed the crime -- neither cause nor time of death, no weapon and no witnesses who saw him do it.
"Those things are the heart of their story and they just don't have it," said Robert Talbot, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Defense lawyers are confident they can pick apart the alleged motive -- an affair with a woman Peterson had only known a short while.
But they aren't without their own challenge: how to explain, convincingly, why the bodies of Laci Peterson and the couple's fetus surfaced just two miles from where Scott Peterson claims he fished alone the day his wife vanished.
The defense says he was..........
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Peterson trial resumes after holiday break
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
Peterson trial resumes after holiday break
BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Prosecutors spent the bulk of last week portraying Scott Peterson as a lying cheat who maintained a relationship with his mistress even after his pregnant wife, Laci, had vanished.
The woman who introduced Peterson to his mistress testified that when she first met him, Peterson never mentioned he was married and told her he had "lost" his first love.
Shawn Sibley said she later set him up with massage therapist Amber Frey, the same woman who prosecutors claim was Peterson's motive to murder his wife........
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
2 weekends of vacation spots
I hope it works because I can't test the link at work, Websense comes up.....lol..
2 weekends of vacation spots
I hope it works because I can't test the link at work, Websense comes up.....lol..
2 weekends of vacation spots
I hope it works because I can't test the link at work, Websense comes up.....lol..
It works!!!! Great pictures!
Perhaps an image makeover will help.
thanks... hope no nudie ones showed.....LOL...just kidding....
great pic... who'd of thunk it?
Beautiful pictures, runningbear!
LOL!..Good Morning, Tijeras!
"When Scott Peterson's double murder trial resumes today,
defense attorney Mark Geragos [yawwwn, blink] is expected to go on another rant [yawwwn, stretch] and ask the judge to dismiss the case due to prosecutorial misconduct [yawwwn, clear throat]."
If he does, he'll do it outside the presence of the jury. How can he rag on Brocchini if Brocchini is not on the witness stand? And since the state is doing its case, they are the ones who determine who will take the stand today. If they don't call Brocchini, how will Geragos get him in there to attack him?
"If he does, he'll do it outside the presence of the jury."
I think the whole duct tape flap was an effort to distract the public (i.e., jurors who are exposed to the media) from Shawn Sibley's damaging testimony. I've noticed that MG likes to leave a good impression, somehow, at the end of every week. Good application of psychological principles, BTW.
The entire long weekend filled with breathless pundits, reporters, defense lawyers discussing the fact that the prosecution has no credibility, calls for a mistrial.
I'd say Geragos pulled it off beautifully. Wonder who the little birdie was who leaked the behind closed doors conference details?...
Dear Judge,
The gag order isn't working!
I don't know, and the more I thought about the duct tape thing... Didn't he say, he got many bad or fabricated tips, and that was just one? So, only thing I can say is that the judge can determine if it should be disregarded to the jury? I can't see any harm in that testimony...not for a mistrial or admonishments.... ;o)
thanks.... only wish I can view a few for a wall paper on work puter.... lol... But bring in the disk tomorrow.... lol..
On what planet is there no harm in that testimony?
Duct tape is found, prosecutor makes up a story about SP planning to use duct tape years before.
What happened to the concept of telling the truth?
The truth! Do you think Markie Garagos tells the truth after HE publicly stated on the shows he was on BEFORE he was consulted to represent Mr Scott Peterson, that Scott is involved in the death of Laci and Conner? That the evidence points to Scott?
Oh well....
This is fact?
Beth saying it is possible Brocchini will be back on the stand to explain addition of "duct tape " to the tip he described ....AP story of closed door 30 minute meeting behind closed doors before court last Wednesday..
Dear Judge,
The Gag Order is one big joke!
Did Brochenni make up the whole duct tape scenario that Scotts supposed friend told him about?
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