SCOTT'S FISHY FURY

The New York Post ^ | June 15 2004 | Howard Breuer

[runningbear]

SCOTT'S FISHY FURY

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.

[Canadian Outrage]

EXACTLY - He's likely the Juror that nods and smiles at SNOTT everyday. He needs his A$$ booted off RIGHT NOW!! He really is a flake and a dangerous one. Mr. Geragos THIS Juror is a stealth juror but you want him don't you???? He's your type of Juror.

[Canadian Outrage]

MY GOD - Delucchi needs to get rid of this idiot now. How dare he say "Your going to lose today"???

[Spunky]

Thanks for the information. Sorry it took so long to get back to you two. I have been out most of the day putting up medicine cabinets and draperies in my daughters new home.

Dave I have been to Modesto once to see my grandson and I kind of remember the creek bed running along the road as you drive through town. Am I remembering correctly? It appears from what you said about Yosemite and Maze being close by Scotts warehouse the search dog may have picked up Laci's sent on the way to the warehouse. I will study the map you linked to.

[Spunky]

"Scott Peterson had spoken with the coach, who had invited him to try out for the team as a walk-on and said if he was good enough, scholarship money might be available."

LOL! He wasn't the golf pro he and his family thought he was. As far as that goes he wasn't the fisherman his family claimed he was either.

[lakey]

Thanks for the link, RG, article dated April 28, 2003

When the object was detected in mid-March, the image appeared to be a body but there was doubt.

"It appeared to be a body, but we never got a close look at it," he said. "Wind-generated waves made it too dangerous to take a closer look at it."

When they returned a week later, the object was gone, Ralston said. He said the churning created by large ships using the channel could have moved the object.

Ralston, the sonar operator was working on another job, said he would return to finish the work.

A Larry King transcript, dated June 15, 2004, defense attorney Chris Pixley said, Remember that they had side-scan sonar going through the bay for months. He continued, Scott says he was fishing, the logical question is going to be, why have we still not found the anchors?

[Spunky]

"A Larry King transcript, dated June 15, 2004, defense attorney Chris Pixley said, Remember that they had side-scan sonar going through the bay for months. He continued, Scott says he was fishing, the logical question is going to be, why have we still not found the anchors?"

Was defense attorney Chris Pixley a talking head on LKL? He wouldn't know weather they found anchors or not. Remember there was a gag order put on everybody involved. So the anchors could have been found and Chris Pixley just doesn't know it.

[Devil_Anse]

Thanks for the map! Yeah... so, seems to me he could stop by the warehouse on his way out of town. (With Laci's body.) And that perhaps that's what the scent dogs were telling them.

I guess the conventional wisdom is that he made two trips to Berkeley... one, at night, after killing her (with a trip to the warehouse on the way, perhaps.) And two, in the morning, to get out there and establish what he thought would be a good alibi.

AND, DD, I have never been able to forget that that long-lost sister of Scott's lives in or very near BERKELEY. I'm not saying she gave any help to a murderer, but still, it's possible that she unknowingly or knowingly DID help him both before and after the fact.

[Devil_Anse]

LOL... well, she is "Miss Piggy"!

[Devil_Anse]

Hey! How come MY mother never put up drapes and medicine cabinets for me??

Geez, Spunky... I'm not sure my mother even noticed how medicine cabinets are attached to the wall. You seem to be up on your home improvement and your daughter is lucky to have your services!

[Devil_Anse]

... but not to worry, Scottie has still managed to, er, distinguish himself...

Oh, yeah. Every mother's dream!

[sissyjane]

I thought we were all on the new thread????


We need to fix this!!!

It's very confusing!!!!!

I only read the latest thread, and don't go back to the old one after a new one is started. (found this again by accident)

[Spunky]

Today my daughter said she should have been taking pictures of me doing all this stuff and then writing into and sending the pictures into The Great Makeover (or whatever that program is called) telling them I do all this for everybody else and now she thinks I deserve having my home all fixed up. :-)

I will just dream on.

[sissyjane]

Me again----

Can we kill the old thread when a new one is started??

Computer challenged over here!!!!

[Spunky]

I put up Levelor Blinds in her living room also. That was a first.

[lakey]

Yes, he was a "talking head." And I agree that we can't take their word for much of anything. Neither should we take the word of someone who wants to come off as "in the know."

I hope and pray the prosecution does have an anchor - that's why I've been anxious for the evidence to be introduced.

[Devil_Anse]

Like he was desensitized by seeing a lot of violent porn?

You know, when I heard the summary of the sort of porn they'd found, I still envisioned it as being sort of in-between type stuff--not exactly snuff films, and probably fairly common stuff, now that the net has made real smut available to anyone with a computer.

But I was not paying attention! "Rape the Teacher"??? "RAPE"??? RAPE. RAPE. A violent act that, IMO, is next-door to murder. (Laci: substitute teacher.)

That is WAY too out there, I think. I know men see and hear about all this stuff from other men, but still, there is no way anyone in their right mind would voluntarily dwell on anything about RAPE.

[Spunky]

Sometimes when you are going down the road you run into a detour. This was a detour.

It just happened that questions or responses needed to be addressed.

[Devil_Anse]

I just couldn't stand the thought of their having to do this over! LOL.

Hey, I watched Greta VS and after about 30 minutes of commercials, they finally got to it, and Greta kindly played the video twice. The juror was some big doofus whose face was blocked out on the video. He's finishing up at the metal detector at the same time Brent is, and each man is taking his keys, etc., out of those little plastic boxes they use to return your metal objects to you.

I did hear him say "gonna lose today" and I think he said either "you're gonna lose today" or "we're gonna lose today" or maybe even "they're gonna lose today". And it was the tail end of a sentence--that was not the whole sentence.

It occurs to me that maybe he was making a wry joke about the guys who run the metal detectors. Maybe saying, "Let's see what we're gonna lose today", referring to not getting all their stuff back from when they go through the metal detector and have to temporarily hand over keys and coins?

It was definitely some sort of light pleasantry, b/c Brent was smiling. It looked like a very trivial conversation. Brent didn't approach the man in any way. But Brent was just civil to him.

Since this same juror really seems to want to talk or make contact with Scott, Geragos, and now Brent, I think he needs to go. I think Geragos, recognizing his flakiness, will want him to stay, however. It certainly wouldn't hurt the defense to have at least one flake on the jury.

[Devil_Anse]

and now she thinks I deserve having my home all fixed up

Hey, at least she THOUGHT of that! Daughters are sweet! I know, b/c I only have sons, but I WAS a daughter! I just took my son shopping for a bathing suit today. We all know how much fun it is to shop with anyone male, for any article of clothing. It was all that, and less, lol!

(No offense, guys on here. Be honest: you know darn well you can go into the store and come out with your whole year's wardrobe in less than an hour!)

[Devil_Anse]

That does it! She'd better loan you out!