Posted on 07/06/2004 5:29:41 AM PDT by runningbear
PETERSON LAWYER SET FOR TIRADE
PETERSON LAWYER SET FOR TIRADE
By HOWARD BREUER
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July 6, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — When Scott Peterson's double-murder trial resumes today, defense attorney Mark Geragos is expected to go on another rant and ask the judge to dismiss the case due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Geragos' ire revolves around the testimony of a police detective who recounted for the jury a tip he had received just after Scott Peterson's arrest but dismissed as implausible.
Modesto Detective Allen Brocchini told the jury that a college classmate of Peterson's told him how the defendant had once described how he'd commit the perfect murder.
"He said he would tie a bag around the neck with duct tape, put weights on the hands and throw it into the sea," Brocchini testified.
Geragos is expected to accuse prosecutors of letting Brocchini embellish his account to explain an error or omission made at Peterson's expense.
Brocchini said there were other statements by the classmate.......
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Duct tape is a sticky detail for Det. Brocchini
Duct tape is a sticky detail for Det. Brocchini
Officer's statement surrounding a tip to police turns out to be inaccurate
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- When Laci Peterson's body washed up on a shore of the San Francisco Bay in April 2003, a line of duct tape was wrapped around the lower torso.
The grisly detail was first seen by jurors in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial in a photograph displayed during the prosecution's opening statement. Duct tape was mentioned in the courtroom last week by Modesto police Det. Al Brocchini -- the lead investigator in Laci Peterson's disappearance and murder -- who described a phoned-in tip he received a week after her body was found.
The tip came from one of Peterson's former acquaintances. According to Brocchini's report, the acquaintance said Peterson gave a detailed account in 1995 of how he would dispose of a corpse by tying "a bag around the neck with duct tape, put weights on the hands, and throw it into the sea" where fish could eat away at it, making it hard to identify. ......
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AXED LACI JUROR: 'I GET DEATH THREATS'
AXED LACI JUROR: 'I GET DEATH THREATS'
By HOWARD BREUER
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July 4, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The juror who got kicked off the Scott Peterson jury claims he's received hate mail and death threats for criticizing the prosecution — and says he's so scared, he's moving to another state.
Justin Falconer, 28, told The Post that after saying he believed prosecutors haven't proven Peterson's guilt, he became a lightning rod for trial-watchers.
He said he's complained to the San Mateo Police Department about the threats, and he and his girlfriend are arranging to get out of Dodge........
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Peterson prosecutors still looking for that damning detail
Peterson prosecutors still looking for that damning detail
Monday, July 5, 2004
By BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press Writer
REDWOOD CITY -- It's the prosecution's disjointed story, legal experts say, that likely has jurors in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial questioning what really happened to his pregnant wife.
But there may be a good reason for their failure to weave the cohesive tale.
Prosecutors don't have enough hard evidence to be forceful in their claim that Peterson committed the crime -- neither cause nor time of death, no weapon and no witnesses who saw him do it.
"Those things are the heart of their story and they just don't have it," said Robert Talbot, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Defense lawyers are confident they can pick apart the alleged motive -- an affair with a woman Peterson had only known a short while.
But they aren't without their own challenge: how to explain, convincingly, why the bodies of Laci Peterson and the couple's fetus surfaced just two miles from where Scott Peterson claims he fished alone the day his wife vanished.
The defense says he was..........
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Peterson trial resumes after holiday break
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
Peterson trial resumes after holiday break
BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Prosecutors spent the bulk of last week portraying Scott Peterson as a lying cheat who maintained a relationship with his mistress even after his pregnant wife, Laci, had vanished.
The woman who introduced Peterson to his mistress testified that when she first met him, Peterson never mentioned he was married and told her he had "lost" his first love.
Shawn Sibley said she later set him up with massage therapist Amber Frey, the same woman who prosecutors claim was Peterson's motive to murder his wife........
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
This is not official..leaked probably by the defense..The word is that the tipster did not use the words "duct tape" and Geragos is going to call for a mistrial, prosecutor should have known, Broncchini lied...disaster looms..Blah blah blah..
We'll know today if it is true, if it is serious, if the judge is going to delete, chastise, ..or anything else the pundits have imagined.
misfitting.com has a chart up describing the testimony of each witness in brief and what it shows...It's worth a look...She didn't get to the Broncchini testimony yet.
On what planet does one attack a poster w/o knowing the FACTS?
Fact: NO ONE in the public knows WHAT the old college friend (Espidia) told Brocchini.
If you have some inside track, and can get information that the public can't, please publish a copy of Old College Friend's statement and also a copy of Brocchini's report of his conversation with Old College Friend.
If not, then learn to be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth.
THE OJ trial keeps coming up in my mind ,they had the guy dead on ,and he still was found not guilty, they have nothing to date on this guy exept that he is a cad, and he was fishing two miles from where the bodies turned up ,I dont know what to think.
How can we know if Brocchini made it up unless we know exactly what is in the old college friend's statement, and in the report Brocchini must've written contemporaneously, and if we haven't heard from the old college friend?
Brocchini also said the old college friend's statement was not credible. Was that a lie too?
Is it too farfetched to imagine that maybe Geragos is telling a lie or two to his many media shills?
What to think: (First be sure you're familiar with the facts, including small ones like what she was wearing and when the evidence shows Scott left his house on Dec. 24, etc.)
Then tell yourself sincerely that Scott did not do it, that someone else did it. Then figure out, as much as you can, how, why, when, and where the person killed Laci, hid her body, and escaped without being caught.
Try it. I did.
LOL....
Snip it:
"(KCBS) - The Scott Peterson double murder trial resumes this morning after a six day holiday recess.
KCBS Reporter Bob Melrose in Redwood City says several more Modesto police officers are expected to take the stand this week.
Peterson's former mistress Amber Frey could also testify in the coming days.
Prosecutors claim Frey was Peterson's motive to murder his wife. The prosecution has been trying to portray Peterson as cheating husband."........
Lovely bear. I was there oh about 20 years ago!! LOL
There is a way around that you know...it's not for public comsumption but I could Freepmail you, I am sure you would not "abuse" it.
I agree Julie. Distaso WILL be able to address this. He's a LOT smarter than the TH's are giving him. In fact, I'm APPALLED at the reporting. Just look at the title headings of the above articles!! LOOK OUT Geragos the train is gonna run ya over from behind!!
Thanks very much for the ping, rb! More excitement ahead, right?
Who knows that the tipster didn't use the words duct tape in the FIRST phone call to Brocchini??? I can't believe these breathless IDIOTS!!
Ummmm troll alert????? Just wondering.
Don't know, but I don't think so. Might even be someone with genuine curiosity about the case--as we have! Wouldn't that be nice for a change, lol.
Good... sheesh... let him go. If he is to testify during the state's case, then the state has to call him as a witness. They've called other witnesses lately.
If Geragos wants him back on the stand so he can vilify him, then seems to me Geragos must wait his turn, and call Brocchini then. Let's see, how would he open the questioning...
"Det. Brocchini, you're back here to spin some more lies, frame the defendant some more, and make a mockery out of the justice system, right?"
(To which Brocchini might well reply, "No, I thought you already had all that covered.")
LOL!
I guess MG was not granted his mistrial. No admonitions were made this AM either. Maybe the Pros. let Judge and MG know that they had notes to back up the Detective's comments? Or maybe they will finish up with the witness on stand before calling him back? I guess we'll see as the day goes on....
LOL - Good one!!
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