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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson will be a guest on MSNBC's "Connected Coast to Coast" with hosts Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley today at 2 p.m. PST / 5 p.m. EST. Rev. Peterson will discuss the controversial issue of why Philadelphia Public Schools are requiring students to take African Studies courses. Tomorrow on The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show, Rev. Peterson will debate Professor Molefi Kete Asante of Temple University. Professor Asante developed the African Studies curriculum which is going to to be used in the schools. The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show is a nationally syndicated...

May 6 (ABC7) — Scott Peterson's father is breaking months of silence, lashing out at the Modesto Police Department and the media for his son's murder conviction. Local Headlines 'Finger' Lady On Her Way To San Jose Cinco de Mayo Celebration Gets Violent 72-Hour Ultimatum Issued For East Bay Hostage Scott Peterson's Father Breaks His Silence 12 Sex Predators Arrested In South Bay Castro Valley Double Shooting Suspect Wanted 2,000 S.F. Phone Customers Without Service Through Weekend 'Subway Bandit' Pleads Not Guilty In South Bay More local news... In a letter to the Modesto Bee, Lee Peterson says: "My son...

Rev. Peterson: “Where’s Al Sharpton on this Hate Crime?” Los Angeles- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, today released a statement supporting the decision by The Brooklyn Corporation Counsel’s Office in New York to charge a group of black teens with a hate crime in the alleged racially motivated beating of six 15-year-old white Catholic school girls last month. According to reports, 20-30 black girls unleashed a vicious beating on the girls while shouting “black power,” “white crackers,” and even “Martin Luther King.” The attack occurred over a dispute about...

On Scott Peterson's first day on death row, two women called California's San Quentin State Prison to say they were interested in marrying him, according to prison officials. Prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon said about three dozen women called San Quentin with messages of support for the prison's newest bachelor, convicted and sentenced to die for the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci.

MODESTO - One day after a judge sentenced Scott Peterson to die for killing his pregnant wife, Laci, police and prosecutors involved in the case broke their long silence and talked about the two-and-a-half-year journey to justice. Laci Peterson's family members, who had been scheduled to attend the briefing at the Modesto Police Department this morning, were not present. A spokeswoman said they were mentally and physically drained from Wednesday's sentencing hearing in Redwood City. Modesto Police Chief Roy Wasden summed up the mood of the assembled law enforcement officers as one of somber gratitude. "We lost a loved member...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Shackled at the waist, Scott Peterson returned to court Wednesday to learn his fate for the slaying of his wife and her fetus, four months after jurors found the former fertilizer salesman guilty of their murders. Peterson was escorted into San Mateo County Superior Court under heavy security, wearing a dark suit and handcuffs chained to his waist. Ten of the 12 jurors who sentenced him to death in December sat in the jury box. Judge Alfred A. Delucchi was set to decide Wednesday whether to grant the former fertilizer salesman a new trial, sentence him...

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson has a great message. I was searching the c-span website this weekend and ran across this video. His message is of self-empowerment and self-reliance. It is very refreshing to hear this message coming from the black community.

Brian Peterson — the privileged New Jersey youth who made headlines in 1996 when he and his girlfriend Amy Grossberg killed their newborn baby — is out of jail, married to another woman, and living in Florida. He spoke to The Post recently as he and his wife Jaime took a stroll in the town of Jupiter with their two dogs — and showed he was in no way marking the short life of his son. "It was seven years ago," Brian Peterson said when approached outside his swank townhouse. The significant date to him was apparently July 1998 —...

Posted on Thu, Feb. 03, 2005 Scott Peterson's half-sister writes book, publisher announces Associated Press MODESTO, Calif. - The half-sister of convicted murderer Scott Peterson has written a book about the "untold story" surrounding the case, the publisher announced Thursday. Anne Bird was put up for adoption at birth and reunited with her biological mother, Jackie Peterson, and her brother, Scott, in 1997, according to a statement from ReganBooks, a division of HarperCollins. The book, "Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother, Scott Peterson, is Guilty," is set to go on sale March 1. The publisher says it will detail "the...

I recently listened to a CD by a Professor of Near East Studies at BYU. The posting below is a rather meadering response to what I think were some problems, with his presentation. I am LDS, so this is not a diatribe against his LDS faith, but rather points of argument that I have with this Professor's interpretation of Islam in the context of the LDS faith. The CD is stated to be an “L.D.S. perspective on Islam,” I finished listening to it last week and I can't say that I was completely satisfied with the product. The CD is...

Gloria Allred will do whatever it takes to get on any show she can to satisfy her ego. She can’t talk and make sense at the same time. She has to rattle on like a train going down the tracks backwards. This is why Gloria is our Idiot of The Week. Besides it’s Thanksgiving. What better Turkey for our Idiot of The Week. High Profile Attorney? Gloria Allred describes herself as a high profile attorney from Los Angeles. I’d guess if high profile means doing whatever it takes to get on as my television talk shows as possible then she’s...

The former girlfriend of wife killer Scott Peterson backed out of an appearance on the daytime TV show The View because her lawyer could not join her. Amber Frey is making the television rounds to promote her book, Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson. Lawyer Gloria Allred has been at her side on Oprah Winfrey, Hannity and Colmes and the Today Show, but View producers said that Frey had to appear solo. Given that this is a very emotional and difficult time for Amber, she has requested that all media interviews be conducted with me because I have been...

Forthwith, a grab bag of facts about the 2005 Legislature. This version of Minnesota's citizen Legislature has: • Five Johnsons: Reps. Jeff, R-Plymouth; Ruth, DFL-St. Peter; Sheldon, DFL-St. Paul; Sens. Dean, DFL-Willmar; Debbie, R-Ham Lake. • Three Andersons: Reps. Irv, DFL-International Falls; Bruce, R-Buffalo Township; Sen. Ellen, DFL-St. Paul. • Three Petersons: Reps. Aaron, DFL-Madison; Neil, R-Bloomington; Sandra, DFL-New Hope. • Two Larsons: Rep. Dan, DFL-Bloomington; Sen. Cal, R-Fergus Falls. • Two Murphys: Rep. Mary, DFL-Hermantown; Sen. Steve, DFL-Red Wing. • Two Nelsons: Reps. Michael, DFL-Brooklyn Park; Peter, R-Lindstrom. • Two Olsons: Rep. Mark, R-Big Lake; Sen. Gen, R-Minnetrista. •...

The media latched on to the story like a pit-bull to a poodle – It’s been a perfect obsession. Coverage of the case has saturated the airwaves for over two years, with the Fox News Channel taking the lead…OK Greta, on the record, we get it – enough already! As nearly everyone on the planet knows by now, former Modesto, California fertilizer salesman Scott Peterson was recently convicted of double murder for killing his 27-year-old wife Laci, and the couple’s unborn son Conner. It seems the jury concluded that Mark Geragos, Peterson’s illustrious, high-dollar defense attorney, was trying to sell...

The death penalty is too easy for Scott Peterson, who should be forced to rot in prison for years reliving his crime, his former mistress believes. Amber Frey, the willowy blond masseuse whose steely testimony about his web of deceptions sealed his fate, told NBC's Matt Lauer she would have preferred for Peterson to be sentenced to life in prison instead. "I felt life [in prison] gives him every day to live with what has happened," she said in her first interview since her ex-lover's conviction. The interview also came just days before her memoir "Witness: For the Prosecution of...

MODESTO, Calif. - With her former son-in-law convicted of double-murder and facing the death penalty, Laci Peterson's mother said she will never have closure in this life as Christmas Eve, the second anniversary of Laci's disappearance, approaches. "There are no winners in a case like this. We are families who are suffering horrendous losses," Sharon Rocha wrote in a statement posted this week on the family's Web site."People tell me, 'Now you can have some closure.' There is no closure. We are only turning the page and beginning the next chapter in our book of life ... Closure will only...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Not everyone seems satisfied with the California jury's death sentence recommendation for convicted killer Scott Peterson. Hate mail and threats have made their way to the jurors in the days after they agreed Peterson should be put to death for the 2001 slaying of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, KGO-TV, San Francisco, reported Tuesday. An unidentified juror told KGO he and other jurors received hate mail and were confronted in person by people upset with the decision; some even reported their children had been harassed at school. Making criminal threats to a...

The Scarlet Letters Editorial I remember the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and the gradual acceptance of living together before marriage and even adultery. Adultery was demoted from a crime and sin to a private matter that was no one's business but the persons involved. Advice columnists recommended keeping affairs secret, to avoid disruption in the marriage. Polls emphasized the growing number of Americans who admitted adultery. Swingers promoted partner sharing as a healthy way to keep a marriage vitalized. Gone were the days, it seems, when adulterers were branded with the Scarlet A and publicly humiliated for...

LOS ANGELES - In a plea to the public to help "free the man we know is innocent," Scott Peterson (news - web sites)'s attorney is seeking donations to continue the investigation into the murders of Peterson's wife and the fetus she carried. AP Photo Slideshow: Laci Peterson Case The 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman was convicted Nov. 12 of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Laci, and second-degree murder in the death of her eight-month-old fetus. Last week, the jury recommended a death sentence. Formal sentencing is set for Feb. 25. Los Angeles defense lawyer Mark Geragos has...

Peterson Outlines Plan To Pay For Colts StadiumIndy Mayor Wants Pull-Tabs To Help Pay For Stadium December 20, 2004 INDIANAPOLIS -- The city will ask the General Assembly to approve pull-tab legislation to help pay for a new stadium deal that would keep the NFL's Colts in Indianapolis for 30 years, Mayor Bart Peterson said Monday. The city will ask lawmakers to approve pull tabs, which are slot machine-like devices, for horse racing tracks in Anderson and Shelbyville and an off-track betting parlor in Indianapolis, Peterson said at a news conference. Colts owner Jim Irsay and the NFL will contribute...