Posted on 11/13/2004 7:08:24 PM PST by CaliRepublican97
November 13, 2004
Of Course Scott Peterson Is Guilty - Court TV Channel Has Been Screaming The Verdict For Months by: Dennis M. Becklin
Medford, Oregon - Off with his head, I guess. I don't personally know if Scott Peterson is guilty. I didn't personally hear any of the evidence. But, it's obvious that he's guilty because Nancy Grace of CourtTV, and Geraldo Rivera and Gloria Allred of FoxTV have all been screaming for his head on national TV for months. How could they possibly be wrong?
It's shades of the coliseum again. 82-percent of American TV watchers signaled with their thumbs down. The prisoner is a dead man. Off with his head.
This is what the American justice system has become in selected instances of court television for profit...an outside-the-court television drama expressing the personal opinions of celebrities who earn their livings entertaining America's TV blood-sport courtroom addicts.
Scott Peterson has been a dead man from the moment television crews began stalking him shortly after the disappearance of his wife, Laci, and their expectant child, Conner.
Regardless of the outcome of the trial, Scott has been a dead man since he was implicated in this heinous crime. If he had walked free on an innocent verdict, he may not have lived long given the mob hatred shown outside the courthouse today. If he is sentenced to life in prison, he may not live long there, either, given the propensity for some opportunistic convict to gain personal notoriety by killing him. If he is sentenced to death for his crimes, he may live for years as his appeals are heard, perhaps many years longer than for either of the other outcomes.
I am left wondering how many other capital murder cases have been prosecuted since the Scott and Laci tragedy first hit American TV sets...probably thousands...maybe tens of thousands. But none of them were subjected to the intense prejudice of 24-hour-per-day commentators like Nancy Grace, Geraldo Rivera, Gloria Allred, Jeffery Figer and Laura Ingle.
With a jury that was not sequestered during the course of this lengthy trial...and given the judge's removal of two jurors since deliberations began just two weeks ago...it is difficult to imagine that the convicting jurors were completely untainted by the shrill and personally vindictive opinions of commentators such as CourtTV's Nancy Grace, a woman who appears to have had a personal axe to grind after the murder of her fiance...or Geraldo Rivera, who called Scott Peterson every name in the four-letter book...or Gloria Allred, who represented one of the prosecution's primary witnesses against Peterson.
Every accused person in America has the right to a fair trial before his/her peers. I don't believe that any television-celebrated trial can possibly remain fair or untainted...unless jurors are totally sequestered, totally isolated from everyone and every form of communication during the pendancy of the trial. There are simply too many ways that the voices of the media can infect the process to the detriment of the American system of justice.
Scott Peterson has been found guilty of first degree murder for the death of his wife, Laci, and second degree murder for the death of his unborn son, Conner. He is a dead man. May God rest his soul.
May God also deny the gladiatorial coliseum media's loudmouths any measure of piety when Scott Peterson is laid to rest.
Dennis M. Becklin, Publisher
GrantsPassNews.com MedfordNews.com NewsAshland.com http://www.TheConservativeRepublican.com
From reading and hearing all the evidence, I personally he's guilty. But it is undeniable that CourtTV and other media outlets seized on this case, and pulled out all their battle axes months ago. They went over the edge in biased reporting, IMHO.
Didn't I read somewhere, that this whole trial was being used as a litmus test for Roe v. Wade?
I don't have cable, so therefore I don't watch Court TV. I did see him at his wife's memorial service. He had a smirk on his face. His ill-fated run for the border cemented my opinion of him. Fry him...
yeah you did. I think Scott being found guilty of murdering that kid will help the Pro-Life movement.
I think if he can be found guilty for that, so should all the other thousands of Doctor's that do the same thing....
AS far as he being guilty. I dont think so. Sure there were lots of "Circumstantial" evidence. But there was NO hard proof.
As far as the Boat. I know for a fact a person can NOT throw 100lbs of dead weight over into the ocean without the boat tipping...
If it was, Gloria Allred and her daughter wouldn't have been screaming for Peterson's head all the time.
Or buys Viagra while his pregnant wife is missing.
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