Judge allows GPS in Laci Peterson case

US TODAY ^ | 2/17/2004 | AP

[endthematrix]

Evidence police gathered using electronic devices that tracked Scott Peterson's movements in the weeks after his pregnant wife disappeared will be allowed in his murder trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. The global positioning technology "is generally accepted and fundamentally valid," Judge Alfred A. Delucchi said.

[DoughtyOne]

GPS guides our smart bombs, but the brain-trust Garagamoli thought he could get a judge to buy off on them being an unproven quantity.

And this guy is a hot sought after commodity? LMRO

If this guy gets more than a Cracker-Jacks decoder ring per hour, his clients are overpaying.

Nobody seems to remember the magic he worked for Susan McDougal. I guess they are oblivious to the reality that they are more than likely to achieve the same success with their cases.

[fuzlim]

The FAA is moving to satellite based air traffic control, and one of the things they're not doing is using GPS.

According to the FAA, GPS is not accurate enough for ATC. It suffers from errors caused by weather and radiation.

GPS is not infallible.

I have no idea how it affects this particular case, but if the lawyers are smart they'll get some expert from FAA.

[DoughtyOne]

If they were tracking his car on an intermittant basis, perhaps the case could be made for a false locater blip here and there. If they were watching as the car left Peterson's home and traveled to the bay, then back, it would be very hard to make the case that this was just one long series of false locations that just radomly happened to go right to where the bodies later washed up. Geragos is not going to be able to get this evidence thrown out IMO.

[Howlin]

Nobody seems to remember the magic he worked for Susan McDougal.

Or Winona Ryder.

Or Robert Downey, Jr.

Or Roger Clinton.

Or Gary Condit.

[kcvl]

Geragos is so overrated that it is hilarious. Yes, let's not forget what he did for Susan McDougal. lol!

[kcvl]

Leave it to you to make the point.

[Howlin]

Geragos makes me so sick I hope that California brings back the electric chair so Markie Boy can sit IN Scott Peterson's lap when they pull the lever!

[kcvl]

ROFLOL!

He is such a smart*ss.

[Consort]

Mobile spyware.

[Canadian Outrage]

The mention of his name makes my blood pressure go up also. Now today, he's attempting to trash ALL the wiretap evidence and have it thrown out. What's this guy so scared of? Afterall HE knows who the REAL killer is RIGHT? wrong! Geragos is a major gasbag!! I hope the Jury hates him!

[DoughtyOne]

Ha ha ha. Thanks.

[Sam Cree]

"According to the FAA, GPS is not accurate enough for ATC. It suffers from errors caused by weather and radiation"

Interesting what you are saying.

Right now radar is the main ATC tool, I believe, which is certainly susceptible to weather errors.

I've used both quite a bit, and fwiw, in my experience, GPS is signigicantly more accurate than radar. I actually think this is beyond dispute. However, I'd say they could consider using both.

BTW, until reading your sentence, I have never heard of a GPS weather caused error, although certainly the signals can be blocked by trees, roofs, etc.

[Jeff Gordon]

GPS is not infallible.

True. It's signal can be disrupted but the unit should know when this is happening. A properly designed GPS device will either accept good data or no data.

I might be wrong, but I thought that differential GPS was currently in use on some landing systems.