Posted on 07/19/2004 5:34:10 AM PDT by runningbear
MISTRESS DISTRESS
By HOWARD BREUER
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July 19, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — With only a few days until Amber Frey takes the stand in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial, she has told her family that she's tired of being dragged through the gutter by people who know nothing about her.
Smut king Larry Flynt has insinuated she's a prostitute. Trial observers expect her to be portrayed by the Peterson defense as a harlot who pursues married men, and possibly as a participant in Laci Peterson's murder.
In an exclusive letter to The Post and Fox News Channel, Ron Frey says his 29-year-old daughter is proud of the choices that led to her having two children out of wedlock.
"The other day I asked her how she was holding up and she told me, 'It's so hard to hear myself criticized by people who don't know me, especially when they take issue with my being a single parent. But you can choose to remain a virgin until you're married, and then never be asked. Or you can have consensual sex and get pregnant. Then you have two choices: terminate the pregnancy, or thank God for the blessing. I've chosen to give thanks for the two wonderful children I love very much.' "
Frey wrote that his daughter's words "brought tears to my eyes. I hope everyone .............
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Fabrications, admissibility discussed
Peterson Trial
Fabrications, admissibility discussed
REDWOOD CITY -- Lawyers in Scott Peterson's murder trial Wednesday argued over previous testimony that defense attorneys said shows a detective lied on the stand.
Judge Alfred A. Delucchi had planned to discuss a motion on that issue and other matters behind closed doors, but appeals from media lawyers resulted in a public debate.
In the process, Delucchi revealed in court -- without the jury present -- two topics at issue: whether a detective fabricated parts of his testimony and the admissibility of television interviews Peterson took part in before his arrest..............
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Peterson trial resumes with questioning of detective
Peterson trial resumes with questioning of detective
By BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press Writer
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Detective Henry "Dodge" Hendee returns to the witness stand Monday in Scott Peterson's murder trial as defense attorneys continue their attack on the investigation.
Attorney Mark Geragos has been picking apart the case as an exhaustive search for hard evidence that turned up nothing incriminating.
In a barrage of sarcastic questions last week, Geragos forced Hendee to acknowledge at nearly every turn that searches of San Francisco Bay yielded nothing to link Peterson to the killing of his pregnant wife, Laci........
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Police misconduct alleged in Peterson trial
Defense is accusing police detective of lying on the stand
The Associated Press
July 19th, 2004
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REDWOOD CITY -- Modesto police Detective Allen Brocchini declared early on he was going to catch Laci Peterson’s killer.
"I probably told that to everybody," Brocchini testified during Scott Peterson’s preliminary hearing. "My intent was to catch … whoever got Laci."
The case, defense attorneys suggested, became personal for Brocchini -- Laci Peterson and her fetus were dead and someone had to pay.
Defense attorneys claimed the detective even told friends of the couple he was going to "take Scott Peterson down."
Brocchini denied making the statement, but acknowledged he tried "planting the seeds of suspicion" with friends and suspected early on that Peterson did the deed.
Now, with Peterson’s double-murder trial entering its eighth week, Brocchini has become a flash point as defense attorneys try to sidetrack the case with attacks on Brocchini’s character. .........
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Peterson defense mocks cop's evidence
Attorney ridicules theory that defendant made cement anchors
Peterson defense mocks cop's evidence
Attorney ridicules theory that defendant made cement anchors
Diana Walsh, Stacy Finz, Chronicle Staff Writers
Friday, July 16, 2004
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Scott Peterson's defense attorney staged a dramatic courtroom demonstration Thursday to try to discredit prosecutors' contention that the fertilizer salesman molded cement anchors to carry his wife's body to the bottom of San Francisco Bay.
Holding a block of cement found in Peterson's boat and the plastic water pitcher that a detective had suggested was the mold for the weights, defense attorney Mark Geragos showed that the two didn't match -- the pitcher was easily larger than the weight, was shaped differently and had a dimple the concrete block lacked.
It was an awkward moment for police Detective Henry Dodge Hendee. He had testified Tuesday in the Redwood City courtroom about how police had found the pitcher with cement residue in it in the warehouse that Peterson used in Modesto, but he admitted Thursday that detectives had learned at some point that it wasn't the mold.
Some courtroom watchers said it was also a victory for Geragos in his effort to persuade jurors that Modesto police and Stanislaus County prosecutors focused solely on Scott .........
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Scott to pin slay on lover
BY MARY PAPENFUSS
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Scott Peterson was posing as a rich bachelor when he took up with masseuse Amber Frey — who went to police after she learned her lover had a pregnant wife who was missing.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Amber did it. That's what Scott Peterson's defense is expected to argue when prosecutors call their star witness in the double-murder trial: Peterson's mistress, Amber Frey.
Several legal observers believe defense attorney Mark Geragos will try to portray the young single mom as so desperate for a husband that she helped kill her rival, Scott Peterson's pregnant wife, Laci.
"Geragos has already tried to lay the foundation that Amber Frey was somehow involved in Laci Peterson's murder," said Dean Johnson, a former San Mateo County prosecutor who is following the trial.
Geragos has already grilled Frey's pal Shawn Sibley - who played matchmaker for the Modesto fertilizer salesman and Fresno masseuse - about when the women first learned Scott was married, and not the rich bachelor he pretended to be.........
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Precisely Lisa and she appears to love her children as well. The fact that She got dragged into this mess is NOT her doing, again THAT can be laid at the feet of Peterson. Master Manipulator and Pathological Liar as well as Murderer.
I am with you Lynn...Ignore Ignore Ignore...not gonna waste my fingers lol too tired from answering legit posters
Lynn you have mail
Right on post Dev. Nobody had to convince me that Peterson was guilty, he did that all by himself. He's his own worst enemy and his OWN mouth is going to bury him. There isn't much a Lawyer can do about his clients own statements except fight to try and keep them away from the Jury. The very fact that he's fighting to keep them out shows that he knows they are very incriminating AND damaging.!!
Thanks, I would like to hear that, I guess I missed the Ted background stuff. I have seen the NBC and ABC interviews. Would love to hear him talking about this. The 6:00pm stuff had a specific reason, no doubt about it. He does nothing without a plan.
I am gonna post this for any of you interested in the Terri Schiavo case.. I found it today while searching for Laci news. Michael Schiavo is another SP
http://www.crimenews2000.com/cgi-bin/wwwthread/showflat.pl?Board=crimetrials&Number=140102
She is legit Miz. She is a licensed massage therapist who is employed by a Sports Club!! And the fact is, SHE IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE!!
The state needs to GET TO IT, CO! I just read an article on KTVU (Bay Insider) that said Hendee testified today that none of the stains found in Scott's truck tested positive for blood, and the hair in the toolbox turned out to have come from a police officer.
The very thought of Michael Schiavo makes me want to hurl. In my opinion, he is a killer who just didn't quite finish the job he set out to do.
Wish NG was trying this case..she would give MG arun for his money
Unfortunately Devil there are so many in the general public who do not know the real story and thinks Terri should die you know put her out of her misery grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Meg I think the Jury is going to actually dislike Mr. Geragos behaving as the toscanini of tedium!! It will make the TV interviews and the wiretap evidence all that much MORE INTERESTING.
seems the media tries to decide who lives and dies and who is guilty or not guilty
Yeah... is that the way those people want others to think of THEM, should THEY ever be in the helpless position Terri Schiavo is in?? Jerkwads who say she should just "be allowed to die" are clearly unable to empathize with the plight of another human being.
I'm sorry if their psyches are not advanced enough to be capable of empathy, but they need to just shut up--unless they have actually been in Terri's position before, which is very doubtful.
this shouldn't be the peoples decesion anyways only parents
Hey everybody! It's been reported that today Hendee testified that none of the stains in Scott's truck tested positive for blood.
So why did Scott feel it necessary to pre-explain the possible presence of blood in his truck??????
When was the search of his truck done? Could he have cleaned up the truck before the search?
Exactly Jax. Remember when Scotts friend that was playing golf with him said that Scott smashed the ball and then stated he "wished it had been his inlaws that he smashed". That's very telling. Secretly he HATED her family and I believe he grew to HATE Laci. EVERBODY Loved Laci, they have found NOT ONE person that had any animosity against Laci. Scott, on the other hand, has NO friends. Not any friends from his school years - NOBODY. He NOT only didn't want the baby and Laci anymore, he was JEALOUS of her and likely the attention that this new baby would bring. And MOST OF ALL, he just wanted to be free to SCREW AROUND from one end of California to the other. He did NOT want to be married anymore.
Correction: Beth Karas says that, as predicted, the stain inside the driver's door pocket DID test positive for blood.
There was some testimony about the printed out internet page found next to Scott's office computer. This was a page on fishing in the Bay. Geragos made much on cross of the fact that the top of the page had as a date DEC. 5.
But on re-direct, prosecutor Harris pointed out that the actual date that SCOTT printed it out was found at the BOTTOM of the page, and that date was Dec. 9.
Good, score one for the prosecution!
testified that none of the stains in Scott's truck tested positive for blood.
I just had a thought....we have all been concretating on blood or vomit on the mops....what if scott was mopping up cement residue...wild thought maybe but
Oh, okay, gotcha!
But could he really have called a halt to their being shown once they were "in the can", as it were?
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