Detective details showdown
BY GARTH STAPLEY and JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: June 23, 2004, 04:20:00 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- The confrontation was almost inevitable. Scott Peterson, realizing he was being followed, shifted from prey to pursuer as he approached the unmarked police car.
Detective Al Brocchini, who had appeared on a national crime-fighting program during the search for Peterson's pregnant wife, Laci, had followed his No. 1 suspect to Fresno on Feb. 1, 2003.
Scott Peterson pierced the detective's shield of secrecy near the home of Amber Frey, who had told the world only a few days earlier that she was Peterson's "other woman."
Brocchini exited his car for the showdown.......
By Michelle Durand, Daily Journal Staff
Claims that an elderly “stealth juror” tried sneaking her way onto the Scott Peterson double-murder trial jury in hopes of convicting him have “no factual basis,” District Attorney Jim Fox said yesterday.
On Monday, Fox hinted at his findings to the Daily Journal but only officially said yesterday he would not file criminal perjury charges against Dawn O’Dell, the 66-year-old woman accused of trying to undermine the jury.
“There is insufficient evidence,” he reported.
O’Dell told others on a bus trip to Reno that she planned to be picked and become the foreperson in the sensational trial, according to a man who alerted Peterson’s defense team. O’Dell allegedly felt Peterson is guilty of murdering his pregnant wife and wanted him to receive the death penalty, said the man who was reportedly sitting in front of O’Dell on the bus......
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