Judge Alfred Delucchi scolded Modesto police Monday.
Posted on 06/29/2004 5:38:51 AM PDT by runningbear
Judge tells Peterson jury to keep quiet
Article Last Updated: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 3:39:53 AM PST
Judge tells Peterson jury to keep quiet
REDWOOD CITY -- The judge in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial Monday warned all of the trial participants not to talk about the case to the media.
Judge Alfred Delucchi was responding to stories that surfaced at the end of last week, when a representative of the Modesto Police Department publicly defended Detective Al Brocchini, who has been the subject of harsh criticism by Peterson's lawyer Mark Geragos during his time on the witness stand.
"This has to stop. Go tell the chief he's going to have to sit on his people," Delucchi told a Modesto police captain. .........
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Judge Alfred Delucchi scolded Modesto police Monday.
Lead defense attorney Mark Geragos continued his quest to show that Modesto police zeroed in on his client, Scott Peterson, while ignoring other credible leads that poured in after 27-year-old Laci Peterson was reported missing.
First Geragos pointed to Kim McGregor, a neighbor who admitted to police that she stole a video camera, several jackets and Laci Peterson's Social Security card from the Petersons' Covena Avenue home.
He also suggested that Amber Frey, Scott Peterson's former girlfriend, held back some taped phone calls from authorities after agreeing to secretly record her conversations with Scott.
The suggestions came during a wide-ranging cross-examination of Detective Al Brocchini, who took the witness stand for a fourth day.
Also, Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi released dozens ........
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Defense turns to other suspects
The judge in the Peterson trial released photos Monday, including this one of the rags Scott Peterson said he took out of the washing machine when he returned from fishing Dec. 24, 2002.
Defense turns to other suspects
Evidence photo released Monday by the judge in the Peterson trial.
Evidence photo released Monday by the judge in the Peterson trial.
By JOHN COTÉ and SUSAN HERENDEEN
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: June 29, 2004, 05:31:25 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- Kim McGregor appeared to be infatuated with Scott Peterson, and she robbed his home after his wife disappeared.
Monday, Peterson's defense team pointed to the Peterson neighbor as an indication that police ignored other suspects in the missing-person case that turned into a double homicide.
Lead attorney Mark Geragos also suggested that Peterson's former girlfriend, Amber Frey -- after she agreed to secretly record her conversations with Peterson -- did not reveal some of the calls.
The questioning about McGregor and Frey came as Geragos cross-examined Modesto police Detective Al Brocchini for a third day. The defense scored a blow toward the end of last week when Brocchini admitted that he "excised" a key piece of information from a police report.
Sgt. Ed Steele came to Brocchini's defense Friday in an interview with The Associated Press, violating a gag order in the case. This led to a warning -- but no sanctions -- from Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi to the Police Department.
Delucchi reminded all of the participants that the order issued by Stanislaus County Judge Al Girolami before the trial began forbids not only the attorneys and police from commenting on the case but also any witnesses who have been subpoenaed, including family members of either Scott or Laci Peterson. The judge said that while he did not want to be a "policeman," he would not hesitate to use his authority to prevent anyone involved in the trial from talking to the media.
"If it doesn't stop, I'm going to have to do something ...........
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Article Last Updated: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 3:39:52 AM PST
Burglary of Peterson home detailed
Woman laid on Scott's bed, stole Laci's clothes
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- A woman "infatuated" with Scott Peterson burglarized his home a month after his pregnant wife went missing and, once inside, made herself a Jack-Daniels-and-Coke, unwrapped some Christmas gifts, and took off with a bundle of goods, a Modesto detective testified Monday in Peterson's double-murder trial.
Kim McGregor, a neighbor of Peterson's, had volunteered to walk their golden retriever while he dealt with organizing volunteers for search efforts. She met Peterson when Sharon Rocha, Laci Peterson's mother, recommended her for the dog-walking job after the two met at the volunteer center. But McGregor had already met Laci Peterson a number of times at neighborhood meetings, defense attorney Mark Geragos ............
Defense keeps spotlight on woman who broke into Peterson's home
By Harriet Ryan, Court TV
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Court TV) — Testimony in Scott Peterson (news - web sites)'s trial focused Monday morning on a mentally unstable woman who became "infatuated" with the fertilizer salesman after his wife went missing and later burglarized his house.
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Slideshow: Laci Peterson Case
In his third day under cross-examination by Peterson's lawyer, Modesto Police Detective Allen Brocchini recounted his contact with Kimberly McGregor, a neighbor who admitted breaking into the couple's home on Jan. 19, 2003, about a month after the Laci Peterson (news - web sites) disappeared.
Brocchini said McGregor stole eight ........
I guess Ron Granski's pearl of a comment about the defense lawyers is our last...I wonder if Janey is under the rule?
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"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"...courtesy of Ron
Creepy!!!!
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Transcript: Frey's Dad Says Peterson Is a 'Criminal'
Monday, June 28, 2004
This is a partial transcript of The Big Story With Rita Cosby, May 26, 2004, that has been edited for clarity.
RITA COSBY, HOST: After the dismissal [in the Scott Peterson (search) trial] of the now infamous Juror No. 5, an unusual offer comes to the judge from our next guest. Ron Frey is the father of Scott Peterson's former girlfriend, Amber Frey (search), and he joins me now on the phone from Fresno.
Ron, what is your reaction first of all to the Juror No. 5, who has been talking up a storm?
RON FREY, AMBER FREY'S FATHER.......
It has become sport to be a defense lawyer. It is not about justice.
not sure.... could be that gal who was a Laci look alike?
oh yeah.... and a sad thing too, being that if the suspect is guilty, this attorney will risk the public at large safety for freeing him back into the streets and commit further offenses, if guilty......
You have great inner sight runningbear.
And let's not forget THIS defense attorney, MG, was a talking head on various shows who was adamant about Scott's guilt...that is before he was given a million dollar retainer....$$$$$$$
I was just reading a story in the paper with that pic...I was going to come look for it...you are on the ball bear!
Hey, look! There's big-nose Geragos hugging Monica!
Gad, that man is an uggo.
Kind of a perverted little smirk on his face too! ;o)
You know, I'm sure Brocchini wrote report after report after report about this case.
It occurs to me that maybe this report from which the part about the warehouse "witness" was "excised" may have been an outline of their evidence they were going to use to get one of the warrants they got. In which case, it would be SUPPOSED to only have the stuff that was favorable to the point they were trying to make to the judge they were seeking the warrant from. It would be SUPPOSED to only have stuff that was favorable to the police's theory of the crime at that time.
If that's the case, then this whole attack on the "excised" police report would be like Geragos attacking a legal memo written by Distaso, saying it wasn't "fair" b/c it didn't give equal time to the defense's legal arguments. That, of course, would be ridiculous, since such a memo is expected to give only its author's side of the issue.
Good. Ron Frey is right on this one!
Oh, and I am starting to doubt that Amber was hiding some of her conversations with Scott from the police, when she had promised to let them in on all her contacts with Scott. It's starting to sound like more Geragos b.s. I imagine Scott is really angry at Amber now, and so he's going to tell his lawyer lies about her.
Ain't that the truth! And since that million dollar retainer has taken Geragos' butt-ugly, babbling face off TV ever since it was paid to him, I would just like to say that it was money well spent!
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