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Convicted By Suspicion -- Why Scott Peterson May Be Innocent
The Hollywood Investigator ^
| 11/30/2004
| J. Neil Schulman
Posted on 11/30/2004 10:26:51 AM PST by J. Neil Schulman
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To: Dashing Dasher
Scott had a perfectly understandable motive for killing Laci rather than divorcing her--if he got a divorce he would still have to pay child support for their son for 18 years. His best legal strategy might have been a 14th-amendment defense (equal protection of the laws): he as the expectant father was not given the same rights to dispose of an inconvenient baby than any expectant mother would have.
To: sodpoodle
Now that you put it that way - I'm sold.
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:18:52 AM PST
by
Dashing Dasher
(Bush/Cheney -- Peace through Strength)
To: FoxPro
They dont even know how Laci died, for crying out loud. So? Her body was totally decomposed. Are you suggesting that every murderer should cremate his victim and thereby get a free pass?
83
posted on
11/30/2004 11:19:25 AM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along)
To: Still German Shepherd
PS to post #79 -- NOT that the Lacy & baby tragedy is funny, but this person's theories sure are. Scott Peterson is guilty and everyone knows it. Time to move on.
To: FoxPro
Murderers are convicted without the how of death proven..or the where and the why proven...
85
posted on
11/30/2004 11:20:42 AM PST
by
MEG33
( Congratulations President Bush!..Thank you God. Four More Years!)
To: Rodney King
YOu do agree that there were a couple of people on the jury that seemed to not think he did it..... before they were dismissed from the jury? Don't you?
86
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:01 AM PST
by
kjam22
(What you win them by, is what you win them to)
To: SSG USA
The outcome was right, even if the path to it was wrong.Sounds like CBS's excuse for RatherGate, i.e., The accusation is correct even if the evidence was forged.
87
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:07 AM PST
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
To: .38sw
I am sick I had not mentioned that one...
88
posted on
11/30/2004 11:21:45 AM PST
by
MEG33
( Congratulations President Bush!..Thank you God. Four More Years!)
To: bruin66
Sounds like CBS's excuse for RatherGate, i.e., The accusation is correct even if the evidence was forged. Interesting analogy.
89
posted on
11/30/2004 11:22:20 AM PST
by
kjam22
(What you win them by, is what you win them to)
To: FoxPro
It's pretty good evidence of an unnatural cause of death when you turn up 90 miles away from your home and wash up on shore several months later, with your head and limbs missing. I don't think she went fishing that day, and fell overboard. I also don't think she walked or hitchhiked to the Berkeley marina to commit suicide. Oh, hey! I know! She died a natural death at home, and person or persons unknown decided that a burial in the bay would be nice, so they transported her there.
There have been other cases where no body at all was found, and therefore no cause of death could be established, but a conviction in the case resulted based on, shockingly, circumstantial evidence.
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:22:26 AM PST
by
.38sw
To: kjam22
YOu do agree that there were a couple of people on the jury that seemed to not think he did it..... before they were dismissed from the jury? Don't you? Yes, that does trouble me. I would not seem so strident in my defense of the system if this author was not so ridiculous as to suggest that there was no motive.
91
posted on
11/30/2004 11:22:48 AM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along)
To: FoxPro
You state that the jury convicted him because they hated him - and not because of the evidence...
Being that there is still a gag order...
How do you know what the jury actually believed?
Ouija Board?
92
posted on
11/30/2004 11:23:21 AM PST
by
Dashing Dasher
(Bush/Cheney -- Peace through Strength)
To: J. Neil Schulman
'...without the prosecution presenting conclusive direct or circumstantial evidence overcoming every single exculpatory scenario by which Laci Peterson might have otherwise come to her death;'
If our justice system were held to that criterion, there would be no guilty verdicts, ever.
Every clever defense council can come up with a circumstance that the prosecution cannot refute.
Could Laci have been abducted by unseen thugs who, for no good reason, abducted and killed her and then tossed her in the bay where Scott was fishing with the wrong gear?
I suppose.
But some explanations just don't make a whole lot of sense.
And that is why we have juries to weight the evidence as best they can.
93
posted on
11/30/2004 11:23:30 AM PST
by
auntdot
To: Dashing Dasher
94
posted on
11/30/2004 11:24:17 AM PST
by
.38sw
To: MEG33
Hey, don't be sick about it. We can't all think of everything, right? Just glad I could help with alternative scenarios.
95
posted on
11/30/2004 11:25:02 AM PST
by
.38sw
To: Rodney King
96
posted on
11/30/2004 11:25:13 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Big government is still a big problem.)
To: BenLurkin
97
posted on
11/30/2004 11:26:29 AM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along)
To: speed_addiction
This is the only loose end I see in this case---a cement anchor. If Peterson did the killing, why on earth would he keep one cement anchor? Why not dump them all while he's at it?
To: Conspiracy Guy
Don't hold back! ; )elbucko is not State Department material. What's worse, he doesn't care.
..;^)
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:28:08 AM PST
by
elbucko
(Feral Republican)
To: Graymatter
This is the only loose end I see in this case---a cement anchor. If Peterson did the killing, why on earth would he keep one cement anchor? Why not dump them all while he's at it? People in the midst of a murder/cover up don't always act completely rationally.
100
posted on
11/30/2004 11:28:35 AM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along)
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