BURGLAR MAY TESTIFY vs. LACI HUBBY

The NY Post ^ | Jan 6 2004 | HOWARD BREUER

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BURGLAR MAY TESTIFY vs LACI HUBBY

BURGLAR MAY TESTIFY vs. LACI HUBBY

By HOWARD BREUER

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January 6, 2004 -- MODESTO, Calif. - A convicted burglar who targeted neighbors of Scott and Laci Peterson around the time Laci disappeared may testify at Scott's murder trial to try to refute testimony from a potentially key defense witness.

Prosecutors filed documents yesterday seeking to allow Steven Wayne Todd, 37, to testify in the sensational case. Last February, Todd was sentenced to more than eight years for burglaries in December 2002.

Prosecutors may try to use Todd to undermine the defense's assertions that detectives zeroed in on Scott Peterson as a suspect early in the case, effectively rejecting other leads that could have led to Laci's true killer.

Possible defense witness Diane Jackson told police she was driving home at 11:40 a.m. Dec. 24. - two hours after Scott says he left Laci to go on a fishing trip - when she spotted something suspicious.

She said she saw three men, presumably Todd and accomplices, standing near a tan van across the street from the Petersons' home, making them potential suspects in the case.

Police insist that Jackson was wrong about the date and that the burglaries actually occurred Dec. 26, two days after Laci vanished.

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Superior Court, Stanislaus County
January 5, 2004

Declaration and Order for Production of Inmate/Witness from Deuel Vocational Institute

Deuel Vocational Institute

Superior Court, Stanislaus County January 2, 2004

Opposition to Motion for Change of Venue; Declaration of Dr. Ebbe Ebbesen, Mark Smith, Caitriona Goss; Points and Authorities in Opposition to Change of Venue

Change of Venue

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Conflicting Polls to Be Presented in Peterson Change of Venue Hearing

Conflicting Polls to Be Presented in Peterson Change of Venue Hearing

A new poll contradicts an earlier finding that Stanislaus County residents weren't unduly influenced by media reports of the Laci Peterson case.

According to a report in The Modesto Bee, a survey authorized by defense attorneys found that citizens of Stanislaus County are more likely to have formed conclusions about the guilt or innocence of Scott Peterson than Bay Area and Southern California residents.

The survey was conducted by Stephen Schoenthaler, a criminal justice professor at California State University, Stanislaus. It questioned 1,175 prospective jurors in ten California counties about their attitudes on the case.

The poll found a wide disparity in results from Laci Peterson's home county and those elsewhere in California. The survey results indicate that nearly 70 percent of Stanislaus residents have formed a strong opinion in the case, compared to less than 50 percent of those living in the Bay Area and Southern California.

The defense is expected to use the results from the latest poll in a change of venue hearing scheduled for January 8.

On Friday, prosecutors with the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office filed a motion to keep the trial in Modesto. Based on the results of a survey conducted by a U.C. .......

Jacko Defense: He Wasn't There

Jacko Defense: He Wasn't There

What kind of defense is Mark Geragos putting together for Michael Jackson? How about: absentee molester?

The word is coming down that Geragos will use the specific dates mentioned in the charges filed against Jackson to exonerate the singer. Those dates — Feb. 7 to March 10, 2003 — will work in Jackson's favor, I am told.

The defense will reconstruct a timeline of Jackson's travels, primarily to Miami, to show that he was rarely in town or at Neverland when the D.A.'s office says he allegedly molested a 13-year-old boy suffering from cancer.

What is known already is that Jackson was in Miami on Jan. 16 last year for the funeral of Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb. Further, according to sources, he was also there on Feb. 6, the night ABC aired the Martin Bashir documentary "Living with Michael Jackson." He was then a guest of Miami lawyer Alvin Malnik.

The defense, I am told, will sketch out Jackson's trips through the six weeks in the police complaint, showing that Jackson was either in Miami or away and didn't have much access to the boy or his family.

Prosecutors will counter that the boy made a trip to Disney World in Orlando, Fla., during that time, and that Jackson saw him there. But even if that turns out to be true, all nine charges against Jackson specify that they took place in Santa Barbara County, Calif., and not anywhere else.

One source close to Jackson suggested to me that possibly he'd been in the Miami recording studio The Hit Factory in early February. But a Hit Factory source went through the facility's 2003 schedule book and concluded for me that Jackson .....

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Books

Laci : Inside the Laci Peterson Murder

and

The Murder of Laci Peterson: The Inside Story of What Really Happened

[Devil_Anse]

Omigosh! Just when they thought they could move the trial to Canada, and now it turns out it's all over the place in Canada, too! LOL!

[Devil_Anse]

Oooh! I love to watch those!

Ask 'em if they've seen any cement anchors down there!

[Devil_Anse]

ROFLMAO!!!!

Your mission: to disable Jackie P.'s oxygen tank. Temporarily only, of course.

[Devil_Anse]

Wow!!!!

I can't believe he was that stupid!!! Oh... wait... yes I can...

[Devil_Anse]

Please!!! I still get choked up when I think of Katie being sold!!

[Devil_Anse]

Hey--his run for the border!

Hey, he might have a future with Taco Bell!

[pinz-n-needlez]

Back up! You just missed it! lol

#89

Pinz

[Devil_Anse]

The only thing I ever saw a bird wearing, that got my attention, was that time the bird in The Three Stooges was flying around with a skull over its body, with its wings sticking out! (Other birdwear leaves me cold.)

[Devil_Anse]

Lol, thanks, I saw it!

I remember last January and maybe February, people would notice that whenever the cops would be searching in the Bay, Scott would do something like, go to San Diego, or go to L.A. People noticed then that he seemed nervous about their searching in the Bay. Remember the ploy the police used, when they said they'd found something that looked like a body, but they had to wait a day to go back down, due to weather? I think they were trying to get him to crack, from the anxiety of it. I wonder if they came close.

[pinz-n-needlez]

During the prelim, we learned of several stories that the cops asked the family to put out there, too.

I wonder how much of the true scenario we really have heard.

I try to draw lines to dots I find, but try not to speculate too much, because in some ways we're being sold a bill of goods, and risk being manipulated by the investigators. The gag order just makes it worse, in some ways, because a deluge of information would at least contain more real facts.

On the other hand, if it helps the cops nail him, then more power to them. Seeing his behavior and hearing his words in the interviews he did for tv convinced me he was guilty.

Pinz

[Velveeta]

I saw a parrot dressed like Elvis once. (Personally, I thought it looked more like Liberace, but...)

[Canadian Outrage]

I agree that Geragos's demand to move the trial to LA is completely transparent to anyone with an IQ above room temperature. In the Jury comment, what I meant to say, was "the peers should be chosen from the area where the crime was committed". I heard a Lawyer on one of the talk shows recently cite that.

[Canadian Outrage]

Make no mistake Vel, Judge Girolami is completely onto Geragos. I think this Judge has frustrated him immensely. He just doesn't play MG's games. He's actually kinda neat, he listens patiently, reads his voluminous printed diarrhea and then says, NO!! LOL - I LOVE IT!!

[Canadian Outrage]

I would more accurately guess that the T-shirt issue is ANOTHER Gergos exaggeration, if not, a downright, lie.

[Devil_Anse]

Oh... my... God!!!

[drjulie]

"Considering that one of the TWO life jackets that the man sold Scott with the boat was missing, I wondered also if Scott toyed with the idea of saying he and Laci went out in the boat, and that she fell out and he couldn't reach her in time to rescue her."

True - at least this story is more plausible than the satanic cult theory!

[drjulie]

"It boggles my mind to think of what MG is juggling right now with his two big cases."

It has to be hard even though I hear the talking heads say that attorneys often juggle many cases at one time. The pleadings aren't well written so he must have a high school or college student helping out.

[drjulie]

"This time-line is going to be big...IMO"

I agree - I bet he flipped when he found out how quickly that dog was returned.

[drjulie]

"I have a copy of the Jan 13 NE."

Thanks for posting this - poor Sharon Rocha.

[pinz-n-needlez]

There you go, using logic and reason again! ;-)

It sounds like he never quite settled on an alibi before he started the final assault. He put out several stories to several people before and after she went missing.

I buy the theory that he thought he could lie his way out of preliminary questioning, then foist her murder onto some mythical vagrant in or around the park. Wouldn't it be funny if he's feeding Geragos the Satanic cultists lines?

He's so used to having people buy his 'suggestions' and misleading statements. What a rude awakening it must have been to see the cops lock him into a timeline and alibi and then start to parse every statement he made to them. Scary intro into reality.

And there are Jackie and Geragos, continuing to feed his meglomania. It's his attitude that will send him to his death, and Mommy is pushing him along on that path.

Pinz