In closing, prosecutor says parenthood pushed Scott Peterson to kill

Court TV ^ | 11/01/04 | Harriet Ryan

[uncitizen]

Someone mentioned on NG's show today that one of the jurors has a health problem and needs this thing to come to a close very soon otherwise he'll need to be excused.

They speculated that Geragos is trying to delay as long as possible to push that juror off the jury cuz he's pro prosecution. The alternate juror that would replace him is a Geragos groupie who apparently is infatuated with him.

[Canadian Outrage]

They would have been taken apart on the stand!! Pure and simple. I think Dave Harris may have melted their hair gel also!! What arses they are.

[Paved Paradise]

I watched Dateline the other night and they did a mock jury of this trial, picking people that closely resembled the actual Peterson jury. What struck me is one of the women who voted "not guilty" said she couldn't come up with the motive. I was thinking "HUH???" and the thing I thought of was exactly what this prosecutor said. I figured he was able to live his little stud life very easily without children but once the baby came he wasn't going to be able to run around so easily because Laci would need him around to help with the baby. I thought it was soooo obvious. That lady struck me as an ignorant fool. I hope the real jury is smarter. I think the motive is quite apparent.

[Jackie-O]

Uh-oh...Justin's bud. Boot him!

[pinz-n-needlez]

lol Count yourself lucky. He was insufferable. If things get slow tomorrow, they may show a replay of his prattle.

CC called him out on the fact that it's one thing to state an opinion on a tv show, and another thing entirely to say it under oath in court.

The fact that he wasn't call to testify meant that he was just blowing hot air on her program. Hee, hee. He was insulted!

Pinz

[Searching4Justice]

I just hope we see some justice in those cases rather than BIG money taking over as it has on most of these other situations......looks like Kerry got BUSHwhached lol.....I am making the call at 7 p.m.......

[Canadian Outrage]

The juror that needs the surgery is scheduled for it November 15. It is a woman and she is #11 a Prosecution Juror. Geragos HAS to be at his other trial long before that. Also, #6 HAS TO HAVE HIS ASS HAULED into the Judges Chambers and questioned. Part of this rings true but it could also be a trick to get him booted so that the next Alternate, a woman who has been flirting with Geragos the whole trial, takes his place. I have been given to understand that #6 has turned around for sometime now and has made quite a lot of eye contact with Sharon R. I don't TRUST Geragos and Gnarlene and the Petersons. They are ALL CORRUPT. IF there is Jury tampering it will blow Geragos's career out of the water. May actually cost him his licence also. There is a stealth something going on and Delucchi NEEDS to handle it BEFORE court in the morning.

[Canadian Outrage]

I watched that piece of trash also. It made me MAD!!

[Canadian Outrage]

Jax - go read the thread on this on WS!! Very enlightening. But this is also very disconcerting!!

[Canadian Outrage]

I certainly pray that he has him Bushwhacked. I don't trust the Democraps and their cheat machine. Bush absolutley MUST win Pennsylvania, and or Florida/Ohio. Right now, looks like Kerry is ahead in Florida. However, a LOT have not yet voted and the more Conservative areas of Florida haven't come in yet last I saw.

[Paved Paradise]

When you listen to these people you honestly wonder what is up there where the brain is supposed to be located OR maybe the neurons aren't firing..... or just firing blanks.

[VOA]

In closing, prosecutor says parenthood pushed Scott Peterson to kill

Scott should have heeded the old comedy line:

"Why is divorce so expensive?
Because it's worth it!"

[lakey]

Wow, this forum is busy tonight.

Thanks for the info on juror #11. Didn't catch all that was said on Court TV and we were wondering why that juror might be replaced. Horrors! I couldn't believe that Geragos didn't finish today, but it's obvious now.

[Velveeta]

Hoooommmeey girl!

[runningbear]

If so, maybe admonish or boot him out once in deliberations!

[runningbear]

As typical, mainstream media, CBS won't call Ohio, AND NBC did just after midnight! Bush won Re-ELECTION!!!!

[Searching4Justice]

YUP looks like a done deal !!!!! after last time I don't think anyone is going to do anything too fast lol....Kerry was BUSHwhacked .... ~~

[Searching4Justice]

somewhere, someplace the fat lady is singing ~~~~~it's over and done, Kerry and Dukakis are HISTORY. Now this country can grow in the next 4 years rather than spend all its time divulging another phony.

[runningbear]

JUST POSTING SOME STORIES FROM GERAGOS'S DEFENSE REBUTTAL. CONTINUING THREAD UNTIL BREAKING NEWS ON JUROR INFORMATION:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Developments Tuesday in the Scott Peterson case

"WHAT'S NEXT: Defense attorneys were to conclude their closing arguments Wednesday, followed by the prosecution's rebuttal."........

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If convicted, Peterson could face the death .........

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Lawyer asks jury not to convict Peterson because he is a 'jerk'

Redwood City, Calif. - Scott Peterson's lawyer pleaded with the jury Tuesday not to convict Peterson of murder just because prosecutors made him look like a "jerk and a liar."

Mark Geragos said in closing arguments that the evidence shows Peterson did not murder his wife, Laci, and the fetus she carried, and that he had no motive to do so.

Geragos suggested that the prosecutors had made the jury hate his client. But he added: "You're not supposed to just decide this case on whether or not you like Scott Peterson."......

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Geragos: Hate blurs the facts
Attorney begins closing comments by saying Peterson is liar, not killer

Scott Peterson listens intently at the beginning of the defense's closing arguments in Redwood City on Tuesday.
FRED LARSON/SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

REDWOOD CITY — Scott Peterson concocted lies to his girlfriend in early 2003 because if she knew he was married, she might tell reporters and people would stop looking for his pregnant wife, his attorney said Tuesday.

After his lover, Amber Frey of Fresno, revealed their affair, Peterson kept calling her because he needed someone to talk to, Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos said.

"This is a guy who literally got caught with his pants down," Geragos said in a lively closing argument that wasn't finished when court ended Tuesday. "He did what he thought he had to do because he fully expected Laci to come home."

Scott Peterson, 32, nodded at that point.

He could face the death penalty if convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, on or just before Christmas Eve 2002.

Jurors will begin deliberating today or ........

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DEFENSE SEES NO EVIDENCE

Scott Peterson is an innocent man who ``literally got caught with his pants down,'' and just because he had an extramarital affair doesn't mean he killed his pregnant wife and their baby she carried, defense lawyer Mark Geragos told jurors Tuesday in the first part of his closing argument.

Geragos challenged the jurors to set aside the hatred and passions that prosecutor Rick Distaso may have whipped up during his argument Monday, and instead look at the evidence. There is none, he said.

``Do you all hate him? That is the sum total of what you heard yesterday,'' Geragos said as he stood before the jury. ``We haven't heard who, what, when, where or why. We're just supposed to convict him.''.......

Peterson Jury Is Asked to Put Aside Feelings for Defendant

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 2 - The lead defense lawyer in the Scott Peterson murder trial, Mark Geragos, urged jurors on Tuesday to put aside any hatred for his client's boorish ways.

He told them instead to ponder the still unexplained death of Mr. Peterson's wife, Laci, a killing for which he said there were no witnesses, no evidence of a fatal struggle, no murder weapon and no motive.

In his rapid-fire closing argument, Mr. Geragos summarized the case much the way he had begun, conceding that Mr. Peterson, charged with killing his wife and her fetus, could clearly be viewed as a "jerk" and a "liar.".......

[runningbear]

Defense: Scott Peterson a philanderer, not a killer

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson's lawyer acknowledged Tuesday that his client was "a 14-carat a--hole" for cheating on his pregnant wife, but urged jurors to set aside their disgust and focus on what he said were reasonable interpretations of the circumstantial evidence against him.

In his closing argument, defense attorney Mark Geragos said prosecutors painted the fertilizer salesman as "the biggest jerk to walk the face of the earth" in an effort to distract the jury from tenuous evidence linking him to the murders of Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn son.

"They hope you'll say, 'They may not have the evidence, but I hate this guy,'" Geragos told the panel. "The only thing they are banking on is that you are going to hate him, and if you hate him, you are going to suspend rationality."

Peterson was conducting an affair with massage therapist Amber Frey on Dec. 24, 2002, when his pregnant wife went missing. Geragos told the panel that the revelation of that infidelity caused police and his wife's relatives to see all his actions as suspicious.

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