Friend: Peterson was frantic

The Modesto Bee ^ | 12/05/03 | Garth stapely

[Lucy Lake]

Don't they have to provide all evidence to prevent the possibility of a mistrial? Or, at a later date Scott/Geragos could ask for a new trial if something is omitted?

[Canadian Outrage]

I saw that interview too Dev. He was rather pathetic. His schtick may be good for the Montanan countryside or Wyoming, I think it is, but hardly the big city. btw. You have freepmail

[Canadian Outrage]

When it gets to trial they must disclose their evidence to the other side. In the Prelim they are allowed to outline their case in a barebones way. Geragos already knows a lot of the sealed evidence. Why do you think he wants the wiretaps excluded, the GPS evidence excluded? the autopsy photo's excluded? and on and on. He doesn't want the warrants unsealed. He KNOWS it will be damaging.

[Velveeta]

You didn't go wrong anywhere, LOL, it could be me getting confused.

My point was that we don't know the "reasons" for the search warrant. LE had to go to a judge to obtain the warrant for the Dec. 25th search and then for the Feb. 18th search. The **reasons** (observations, statements...etc)for the warrants were not brought up at the PH and we know next to nothing about those reasons.

Am I making sense? It's hard to articulate exactly what I'm trying to say! LOL

[Canadian Outrage]

LOL - Make that Montana!! not Montanan. Sheesh. I'm leaving my office soon to drive home in a nice snowfall after dark. btw, I wore my Leather jacket this morning and it has fringes. FOFL!!

[Canadian Outrage]

Who says we have to make sense all the time??? LOL

[Velveeta]

For a while I was telling myself to give Geragos a break because he was just doing his job. Now, after today's display of disgusting jocularity, I think he's almost as bad as the man he's defending.

Geragos stated that the autopsy photos of Laci were "seared" into his brain. Well, I'd like to see them branded to his forehead.

[Canadian Outrage]

I heard him say that and I hope the Prosecutor is allowed to play THAT clip right after he plays the clip of him calling Peterson a Psychopath!!

[Lucy Lake]

LOL - Make that Montana!! not Montanan

I knew what you meant to write!...Snow here, also. You have freepmail.

[Velveeta]

Would it really matter how he transported her to the bay?

Yes.

The DA would have to show "how" she ended up in the bay. Otherwise some chucking fool defense attorney will try to insinuate that Laci tied herself up in plastic and duct tape and hopped to the bay with weights attached to every limb and threw herself in where Scott was fishing. Just to spite him, of course.

[Devil_Anse]

I also found the part about his supposedly dressing her corpse to be strange.

We could just say, he had already planned to report her as going missing while walking the dog, so he had to have her dressed in clothes, in case the body was found. Also, b/c if any of her female relatives later noticed that ONE of her maternity nightie outfits was missing...

Or, more likely, he didn't plan quite THAT specifically--he just knew that if her nightclothes ever came off her body and washed ashore, or if her body were found, still wearing nightclothes, that would pretty much eliminate as a suspect anyone EXCEPT the person who was with her the night of the 23rd... and we know who THAT was...

As for the idea that they had a really bad, physical fight, but then she later was sleeping in the bed, you have a good point: who sleeps after something like that? She would be more likely to stay up crying, or stay up locked in some room, or get in her car and drive to her mother's or her sister's, or maybe just to a hotel, if she didn't want anyone to know. I think the theory that they fought furiously, but then she later slept, is something the police have put together b/c they can't otherwise fit all the known facts together--they can't otherwise have her vomiting, but then also sleeping peacefully.

[Lucy Lake]

Maybe she had been drugged and needed to lie down, even though she had struggled/fought with Scott?

[Velveeta]

Don't they have to provide all evidence to prevent the possibility of a mistrial?

Not at the preliminary hearing. The prosecution presents enough for a judge to discern the possibility of guilt, to justify going to trial.

[Canadian Outrage]

BBS!!

[Velveeta]

correction: Dec 26th search

[Velveeta]

It's been a loooong day!

[Velveeta]

Do you think Geragos' own statements, before he was SP's paid plate spinner, are going to be in that 8000 pages of information he wants to present to the judge? ROFL!

[Devil_Anse]

I think if Snott did go thru the trouble of changing her pj's it was only to fit in with the story that she went missing the next morning.

We're thinking alike on that one!

[Devil_Anse]

What a pathetic fool she is. And histrionic, as Jackie called it, is the perfect word for her antics.

[Sandylapper]

You may be right, grizz, CO. Maybe in a circumstantial case like this, all loose ends have to be tied.