Posted on 06/15/2004 5:32:05 AM PDT by runningbear
SCOTT'S FISHY FURY
By HOWARD BREUER
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June 15, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson hotly cursed and threw a flashlight after police grilled him about his suspicious fishing trip the day his pregnant wife, Laci, disappeared, one officer testified yesterday.
"I asked him what he was fishing for," Modesto Detective Matthew Spurlock told rapt jurors during the start of the third week of Peterson's murder trial.
"He had this blank look for a second or so, his eyes shifted a bit. And he didn't really answer the question.
"I asked what he was using for bait, and I got the same kind of response . . . this blank shifting," Spurlock said. "He couldn't really answer. Then he said, 'a silver lure,' and he held his hands about 7 to 8 inches apart."
Spurlock said that when he then asked Peterson to leave the house, he watched as the fertilizer salesman cursed through gritted teeth and threw a flashlight to the ground.
"It sounded like 'f - - -,' like it was being said out of frustration," the cop said............
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Mistrial denied in surprise testimony
Mistrial denied in surprise testimony
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BY GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITER
Last Updated: June 15, 2004, 04:20:32 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- The judge in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial refused to declare a mistrial Monday over surprise testimony about Peterson's use of an obscenity shortly after his pregnant wife disappeared.
Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi gently chastised prosecutor Rick Distaso for pulling a fast one, but concluded that it was not a gross violation of trial procedure.
Also Monday, Sharon Rocha cried as she looked away from a large screen showing remains of her daughter, Laci Peterson. Minutes later, pictures of her smiling daughter splashed on the screen and Rocha quietly got up and exited the courtroom.
And two Modesto police officers said Scott Peterson seemed caught off-guard when first asked about his solo fishing trip.
Sparks flew after lead defense attorney Mark Geragos asked Delucchi for a mistrial, in a motion that drew snickers from the audience.........
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Angry Geragos Asks For Mistrial In Case
Police Officer Says Peterson Cursed
Angry Geragos Asks For Mistrial In Case
Police Officer Says Peterson Cursed
(AP)
June 14 (BCN) — A furious Mark Geragos asked for a mistrial this morning in the Scott Peterson double murder trial after prosecutors failed to inform him that a police officer overheard Peterson use an expletive on the night his wife Laci went missing. .........
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Prosecution slowly builds case in Peterson trial
Debate over merits of deliberate strategy
Vicki Ellen Behringer / AP file
Prosecutor Rick Distaso, third from left, gestures to the jury, during opening arguments as Scott Peterson and Judge Alfred A. Delucchi listen in a Redwood City, Calif., courtroom June 1, 2004, in this courtroom sketch.
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>>Didn't they confiscate his computer? <<
According to the Catherine Crier show they confiscated four computers. One of them was a lap-top, and atleast one was from the warehouse.
LOL. I think I remember seeing Media coverage of that. It looked like a "didit"
Yes, it reminded me of the angry mob in the old Frankenstein movie. The cops should have opened the door and kicked him out of the car right then and there!
>> issue of the missing girl who was at UCLA <<
Scott and Laci were students at Cal State San Luis Obispo, not UCLA.
Kristin Smart - Cal Poly
Scott and Laci were students at Cal State San Luis Obispo, not UCLA
Scott had a golf scholarship for another college that he dropped out of before attending San Luis Obisbo. A girl did come up missing from the first college Scott attended.
>>A girl did come up missing from the first college Scott attended.<<
I believe that Kristen Smart was missing from Cal Poly, not the college he attended in Arizona.
From what I have read, Scott has been cleared in her disappearence.
He is not insane, he is a sociopath.
He is very capable of behaving totally normally, he is devoid of a conscience. I doesn't so much not understand right from wrong, he just doesn't believe that it applied to him.
For him, right is what he wants right now. He doesn't understand why anybody thinks this is a big deal. He doesn't think it is abberant to be propositioning another woman. It's what he wants right now.
According to the Catherine Crier show they confiscated four computers. One of them was a lap-top, and atleast one was from the warehouse.
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Oh My, my imagination is running away.. I'm thinking that he surrounded himself with Caligula or DeSade type images 24/7 using 4 Computers.. No. Can't be...
Then again, wasn't their a rumor a year + ago that Scott propositioned a Gay Guy in a Bar? That a guy came forward through some tabloid.
"You are completely correct on the litter box issue. There is a parasite in some cat feces that, if it gets into a pregnant woman's body by inhalation or from hands that are mnot washed immediately, it will definitely affect the growing baby. Better that the pregnant woman stay clear of the litter box."
It's not a parasite. It is the cytomegalo virus. It is in the herpes family.
Absolutely! And the investigators would never have left the scene till they recovered the evidence - especially in that LE already had Scott's marina ticket.
I'm surprised any FReeper would fall for this kind of "in-the-know" junk post.
Hope they wore gloves.
ROTFL
From: crimenews2000
Victor Cordeiro (Victor M. Cordeiro) 36, Drag queen "Vicki" and "unemployed hospital janitor"; claimed in Globe article to have been picked up by Scott Peterson about 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday night in October 2000 at a gay bar called the Brave Bull, later having sex with him at Scott and Laci Peterson's home; reportedly passed polygraph examination related to his account of meeting Scott Peterson; born in Portugal; resident of Modesto
Now THAT is subtle :-)
Thanks. I felt that when I was typing UCLA it probably wasn't correct, but for the life of me I couldn't think of Cal Poly.
You are so right, this guy is one sick, perverted puke!! I know that Geragos is the King of excuses but just try and give a "rational or reasonable" explanation to bestiality. Can't be done. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if Peterson had killed before. He does NOT have a conscience.
Spunky do you remember that the Prosecution had retrieved 31 items from the Bay that they were going to catalogue and then turn over to the Defense.? There could be some pretty interesting stuff amongst those items. Far as I'm concerned, I'm NOT watching OR listening to the talking heads any longer. They upset me greatly. IF, and I'm just surmising here, they have even ONE of the homemade anchors with anything of Laci attached, I think the laughter amongst the Jurors will stop pretty fast. IF not, they should not be Jurors.
>>Hope they wore gloves.<<
GAG me!! LOL!!!!
Report: Scott Peterson Linked to 1996 Missing Student Case
Aired January 18, 2003 - 09:01 ET
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