Thanks RB. Here's one for you while you lurk. Hurry back!
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/6820999p-7771309c.html Did he or didn't he?
Attorney General Bill Lockyer continues to get beat up for comments attributed to him in various press reports about the Scott Peterson case and the murder of Peterson's pregnant wife, Laci, and her unborn child.
One of the first barbs came in a Time magazine interview with Jackie Peterson, Scott's mother, in which she said, "You have (Lockyer) calling this a slam-dunk before there's even an arraignment. I'm feeling like I'm living in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union."
The Lockyer quote has been picked up repeatedly by the news media, with NBC's "Dateline" airing it again as recently as June 1.
Trouble is, Lockyer insists he never said it -- at least not in the context that it's reported.
During a recent lunch with the Capitol press corps, Lockyer said the comment referred only to DNA evidence confirming the identity of Laci Peterson and her almost full-term baby after they were fished out of the San Francisco Bay in April.
"I was asked, 'Is this science all sort of mumbo jumbo?' " he said of his exchange with reporters on the day the bodies were identified.
"And I said, what it means is no criminal defense attorney ... could be able to rebut this evidence. This is absolute factual slam-dunk that this is Laci Peterson and the fetus of Laci and Scott.
"I do not know the evidence in the DA's case or any other specifics about it. I wish him success, but that's as much as I know about it."
Gee, why does that not surprise me that the media might be reporting only a selective portion of a statement? I had read/heard that statement repeatedly, by Lockyer and took it as fact. Thanks for posting that column and his comments.
thanks vel, Lockyear has lots of problems, and to become a gov, my opinion, no dice!