GPS data at issue in Peterson case

CNN.com/Law center ^ | Tuesday, February 17, 2004

[fiesti]

CO...I understand Terri began vomiting on the 17th and parents are not being told anything by the other scumbum of the earth Michael Schiavo.....They want her dead pray for her BTW I also understand Baird is keeping the case This is just plain outright murder...no diff than Lacis death

[fiesti]

LOL no such luck unles she got tangled in her oxygen tubing lol

[fiesti]

maybe the hair is mckenzies ??

[fiesti]

besides i am more interested in fingerprints than hair

[CIB-173RDABN]

All you would have to do is let an accomplice drive your car to Vegas or Tahoe while you whack someone in LA, and then use the Onstar data to clear you.

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Not necessarily. Once in Vegas or Tahoe there would be records, and people who could confirm you were there.

Electronic records, credit card charges, phone calls, ATM activity, are already being used in courts to establish where someone was.

[fiesti]

Maybe Jackie not showing is a con game...Lee was estactic and said my kids gonna walk coming out of the courthouse..so they are not even worried anymore so yes jackie went shopping for a plastic surgeon to change snotts Idenity if he walks cause I would guess he would need it worse than OJ ever did....................just blabbering lol no way do I think he will walk ig MG ever lets it come to trial

[Canadian Outrage]

fiesti I wouldn't put it past that man to poison her. What a disgraceful situation. Prayer is what I can do from here.

[Canadian Outrage]

Geragos is a blowhard anyway. IF he really had evidence of Scott Peterson's innocence, he would have produced it a LONG time ago. I'm anxious to hear what was decided in Court today regarding the wiretap evidence. I hope we don't have ourselves a liberal Judge.

[Devil_Anse]

Who knows where that crazy woman was? Maybe she's lost interest. Given what we know of her narcissistic personality, it must have been a supreme effort on her part to ACT so concerned about another person for all these months. She probably took a break to indulge in the pastime that all narcissists must inevitably do from time to time--look in the mirror and admire her Almighty Self!

I could go for Scott having plastic surgery if they would follow the script from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"!

[runningbear]

Geragos is grapsing at all things..>This is too funny, Distaso to go under oath on request of Geragos....Thank goodness the Judge saw thru this!

No decision on whether bugged calls allowed

No decision on whether bugged calls allowed

By GARTH STAPLEY and JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITERS

Last Updated: February 19, 2004, 11:55:36 AM PST

REDWOOD CITY -- Wiretap testimony in Scott Peterson's trial Wednesday focused on nuts and bolts of how phone bugs work, except for one spirited exchange when defense attorney Mark Geragos threatened to call a prosecutor to the witness stand.

Judge Alfred Delucchi, however, twice shot down the idea.

Seeking to have an opposing attorney testify is unusual, legal observers said.

"There is a reluctance, a reticence, to call the actual attorneys in a case," Los Angeles defense attorney Bradley Brunon said. "I would have been real surprised if the judge granted that."

Geragos wanted to ask prosecutor Rick Distaso -- under oath -- about meetings involving officers who monitored Peterson's phone calls, Distaso and Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Wray Ladine, who approved the bugging.

Geragos already has subpoenaed Ladine because no stenographer was present to record the meetings.

Ruth Jones, a professor at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and former New York City prosecutor, said investigator Steven Jacobson's testimony regarding the meetings should be sufficient.

Geragos' desire to put Distaso on the stand could be a tactic to keep his opponent off balance, Brunon said.

"There's probably some gamesmanship going on," Brunon said.

"Mark doesn't want to make their job any easier than it is," Jones said. "He's going to make a lot of motions, and he's going to lose many of them. But that's his job, to make motions."

Wednesday, Delucchi called a recess at 11:02 a.m. to listen to some recordings of calls challenged by Geragos. The judge also invited Jacobson, Peterson and his attorneys into his chambers.

They didn't emerge until after lunch, when attorneys on both sides met first with the judge behind closed doors, then privately with each other and again with the judge before he announced at 3:52 p.m. that the session would not reconvene until this morning.

All participants are bound by a court-imposed gag order from revealing what was discussed in the meetings.

Jacobson was the only witness called Wednesday, and he spent most of his time explaining phone bugging.

Peterson's two cell phones were tapped from Jan. 10 through Feb. 4, Jacobson said, and again from April 13 until his arrest April 18. Jacobson said he called off the first tap because it wasn't producing evidence.

Reasons for prosecutors' desire to introduce the wiretap recordings remain unclear. They introduced no such evidence at Peterson's preliminary hearing in October and November.

Geragos takes exception to the taps because agents monitored parts of calls between Peterson and his former attorney Kirk McAllister and with the attorney's private investigator. Such calls by law are confidential.

Jacobson, wearing a western-style blazer and carrying a cowboy hat, said his agents did not record many calls that weren't related to the case.

Peterson made or received more than 3,800 calls during the time the taps were authorized, he said.

Of those, agents detected 69 calls between Peterson and McAllister or the investigator, Jacobson said, but listened to parts of only three......

[dhs12345]

"malfunctioning" translated may mean that the GPS temporarily lost "lock." This happens often and when there is an obstructed view of the sky. Most modern GPS' can track 12 satellites at a time, which provides some redundancy. But it is not perfect. This is much less of a problem for airplanes.

The solution: exclude the points that are suspect (pretty obvious from a plot of the track -- large sudden/instantaneous jumps in position). Of course, give a lawyer an inch...

[Lucy Lake]

Hair taken off duct tape

Cat and dog hair?

[Lucy Lake]

Oh, dear, didn't mean to start a rumor. Actually, fiesti probably has it right. JP pulling something for attention.

[runningbear]

ya know, as I read it, only "not Gerago's client" .... ie.... Scott. Haven't heard elsewise...

[Devil_Anse]

Who, me?

[Devil_Anse]

Ditto here!

Maybe it was Amber's hair!

[Jackie-O]

Hey Vel, my friend Stan called and said that Gracie is supposed to be on the news tonight. She was interviewed by channels 5 and 7. I watched the news at 6 and did not see her...will try to stay up for the news at 10.
Still nothing new on Eric.

[Canadian Outrage]

Good God, I thought that Girolami ruled on the fact that the snippits of the client/Attorney conversation were NOT deliberate and were NOT harmful!! Geeragos is going to drag this thing out as long as possible. Besides, IF Scott is so innocent, what's the problem Mr. Gasbag?? You should welcome the Jury hearing these tapes because Mr. Peterson exculpated himself right? WRONG!! They are extremely damaging that's the reason.

[runningbear]

oh my, now that would be a huge problem.... lol...

No... Wait! Scotty planted them!!!! heeheee..

[runningbear]

I agree CO... If snotty was so innocent, why go thru the legal motions of "freeing" his client? GUILTY! ;o)