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 ...
Are they back in Court carrying on Jackie????
Why should they call him back now? To give Geragos more of a chance to trash him?
Yes, I think you're right, they probably had evidence to show that Brocchini did not make up the part about duct tape. Which would mean Geragos DID make up the part about Brocchini lying.
Yep....DOJ witness on the stand right now. I'm listening for BK's updates.
LOL.....
Thanks ...
Yes, but why is the spinning in the media so important to Geragos? It makes me think he is counting on the jury being influenced by media reports, and that's just wrong.
IMO, the spinning is all he has...his client is a murderer.
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.
Some people are so emotionally invested in the outcome of this that I'm pretty sure he's not lying.
That's what being glued to the tube too much will do to ya...
GOD when are these HOT AIR BALLOONS of Geragross's gonna stop??? I can't believe that the Talking Heads keep going on about the Prosecution not proving their case. Just read Misfitting.com. Loretta has set out EACH witness and their testimony and how Geragos has been shown wrong. It's brilliant!! AND it IS cohesive and fits together. Don't let any of these mouthpieces tell you any different.
BK reporting...second witness on the stand - civilian who found the body of Connor.
Rochas left the courtroom, photos being shown.
Speculation on Brochinni..was ready to retake the stand, took his 5 inch thick notebook and left the courtroom. Don't know if he will be recalled. No explaination by Judge.
It was clearly NOT mistrial material was it???
Department of Justice Investigator Testifies in Scott Peterson Murder Trial
"KCBS) - Testimony in the Scott Peterson double murder trial resumed at about 10:20 this morning after a six day holiday recess and an earlier meeting between the judge and the attorneys in the case.
KCBS Reporter Bob Melrose in Redwood City says the meeting took place in chambers and it is not known what it was about.
Once proceedings resumed, the prosecution called Douglas Mansfield, an investigator with the California Department of Justice, to the stand.
Mansfield testified about an interview he conducted with Peterson on December 25th, 2002 that lasted nearly three hours."
Hearing Today for Former Member of so-Called Billionaire Boys Club
Douglas Mansfield, investigator with Calfornia Dep't. of Justice? 3-hour interview on Christmas Day??
I never heard that there was such an interview. Wow, I wonder what was said; I wonder if Scott contradicted any of his earlier answers in Brocchini's interview of him.
Well, well. Scott told Mansfield that Laci was concerned about supposed rapes, etc., done by homeless people in the park, and so she was carrying pepper spray in her purse, and she urged Scott to carry it too.
Later he said she never carried her purse when she took the dog walking in the park.
Laci's THAT concerned about RAPISTS in the park, but she's gonna go walking there alone when she's pregnant and definitely has not been in top physical shape?
Scott said she never carried her purse when she went walking? Then how did she carry her house key? Or is he trying to say she just left the house unlocked--with vicious, dangerous homeless people passing up and down the street at all hours, she's gonna leave the house unlocked??
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