Posted on 08/20/2003 5:23:46 AM PDT by runningbear
Breaking News: Defense team seeks to close Peterson's preliminary hearing to public
They are? Who the heck is the next of kin? The court order was very non-descript.
Oh if they tried that, the Rocha & friends break in at the house will look like a cake walk, compared to what I think her father & brother would do!!!! OUCH!
I don't know if the Peterson's are fighting for legal custody of Laci and Conner.
I hope I didn't sound like the Peterson's made a claim.... ;o)
Does Artwork Support Scott Peterson's Defense?
Friday, August 15, 2003
This is a partial transcript from On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, August 13, 2003. Click here to order the entire transcript of the show.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Scott Peterson's (search) defense team is using paintings near the San Francisco Bay to support its satanic cult theory. According to the defense, the paintings apparently depict ritualistic killings and occult practices.
Here with pictures of the artwork is artist Bruce Rayburn who joins us from San Francisco.
Welcome, Bruce.
BRUCE RAYBURN, ARTIST OF CONTROVERSIAL IMAGES: Hi.
VAN SUSTEREN: Bruce, explain, first of all, where is this artwork the defense is interested in?
RAYBURN: Well, it is on an old landfill which is directly across from they, I guess, found the body, but I think that's just kind of a coincidence.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the artwork painted on a wall, or is it up on boards? What is this artwork?
RAYBURN: The area used to be a landfill, and they, of course, dumped a lot of building materials there, like concrete slabs and things like that, and we started about five years ago painting on these concrete slabs and big drainage concrete things.
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Posted on Wed, Aug. 20, 2003
Defense appeals open hearing
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing Laci Peterson on Wednesday appealed a Stanislaus County judge's decision that an upcoming preliminary hearing remain open to the public.
Saying an open hearing would cause "irreversible" damage, Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos asked the state's Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno to overturn Judge Al Girolami's ruling denying a defense motion to close the procedure.
Defense attorneys for Scott Peterson had argued in court papers filed July 22 that reporters and the general public should be barred from the Sept. 9 hearing. Doing so, they argued, would help prevent certain evidence from being broadcast to thousands of potential jurors who might form unfair opinions about the case before being officially seated on the panel.
Sacramento attorney Charity Kenyon, who represented the Times and other newspapers, contended that closing the hearing was an extremely rare and unnecessary action. The judge could ask potential jurors pointed questions about their knowledge of the case, she said, to help ensure Peterson would get a fair trial.
Girolami agreed in a decision issued during an Aug. 14 hearing. Four days later, however, he barred cameras from the courtroom to help control what he said could turn into a media circus.
Geragos had argued that television cameras .....
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Bodies of Laci, Unborn Son To Be Released To Family
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O.J.'s Empathy
Infamous Criminal Defendant Says He Feels For Scott Peterson and Robert Blake
O.J.'s Empathy
Infamous Criminal Defendant Says He Feels For Scott Peterson and Robert Blake
N E W Y O R K, Aug. 20 — O.J. Simpson believes Scott Peterson and Robert Blake are being convicted in the media, just as he says he was, according to Playboy magazine's David Sheff, who conducted an extensive interview to appear in the October issue.
Simpson, the man at the center of the "trial of the century," was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, eight years ago.
"He feels that they [Peterson and Blake] are being tried by the media," Sheff said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America today. "He says that it's something he relates to and he feels it's very unfair."
Peterson has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son. Blake has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the May 2001 fatal shooting of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
According to Sheff, a contributing editor for the magazine, Simpson had some advice for Blake and Peterson.
"'No lie detector test,' he [Simpson] was advising them," Sheff said. "He said he understood, related to Robert Blake in particular, how he would like to tell his story to the public. But just as he was advised not to by his lawyers, he would counsel against that."
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DEFENSE X-RAYS LACI, BABY'S BODIES
August 21, 2003 -- MODESTO, Calif. - A radiologist was sent yesterday to X-ray the remains of Laci Peterson and her unborn son to bolster the defense's contention that the fetus lived past Christmas Eve, the day police say Laci's husband, Scott, killed her in their home.
The defense-hired radiologist went to the criminalistics laboratory of the Contra Costa County coroner in Martinez to take the X-rays under law-enforcement supervision, sources said.
Defense experts in the double-murder case will compare the.........
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The interview of Kristen Dempewolf was an apparent attempt to undercut Scott Peterson's alibi that his wife, Laci Peterson, 27, was preparing to walk the couple's dog when he left for a solo fishing trip, so he could not have killed her.
Like Laci, Dempewolf, 33, was pregnant, had shoulder-length brown hair and regularly walked her dog in the same neighborhood, the Modesto Bee reported Thursday, citing an unidentified source.
If Dempewolf was walking her dog the morning of Dec. 24. -- the same time Scott, 30. told authorities he left for the coast -- it could explain why several witnesses said they saw Laci Peterson walking her dog, the paper reported.
A telephone call to Dempewolf's home Thursday was not immediately returned. Dempewolf's husband, Martin Dempewolf, 34, told the paper his wife had been subpoenaed and was under the gag order.
Scott has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges in the deaths of his wife, Laci, and the couple's unborn child. Laci was eight months pregnant when she disappeared Christmas Eve -- her body and that of her son washed ashore along San Francisco Bay.
Meanwhile, Peterson's defense attorneys have appealed a judge's order that lets the public attend the hearing at which prosecutors will lay out their evidence against the Modesto fertilizer salesman charged with killing his wife and unborn child.
"Unless this court intervenes and closes the preliminary hearing, there will be no chance of obtaining an unbiased jury," defense attorney Mark Geragos wrote in a 28-page request filed Wednesday at the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno.
Stanislaus County Judge Al Girolami ruled last week that the hearing would remain open, though he later banned all cameras and recording devices.
Geragos wants the state appeals court to overturn Girolami -- or order another hearing at which the judge would explain how his decision is not in "direct conflict" with prior rulings that sealed most documents and imposed a gag order.
Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 9. Preliminary hearings are like minitrials at which a judge decides whether the case should go to trial after hearing testimony from witnesses.
Geragos was surprised by the judge's ruling this week to ban cameras from the courtroom after earlier ruling against defense motions to close the hearing.
"It sounds like he repeated everything I said in my arguments to close the hearing," he said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
In a Fox News exclusive, sources close to the case said that during a taped phone call between Peterson and Frey, Frey asked her former lover whether he'd had anything to do with his wife Laci Peterson's disappearance.
Responded Peterson, according to the sources: "Yes … uh … uh … but no. But I know who did and I'll tell you later when I see you."
"Yes - uh - uh - but no." LOL. A confession like that really belongs in this case!
You're right, if he testifies, he's gonna need to explain it and he's bound to at least look a bit uncomfortable when he does. Of course, the defense will object to its admission, but it'll probably come in. ;-)
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