Posted on 08/05/2004 5:36:28 AM PDT by runningbear
<Peterson Cries As Friend Gives Testimony
Peterson Friend: Scott Left 'Frantic' Message
Peterson Cries As Friend Gives Testimony
Peterson Friend: Scott Left 'Frantic' Message
POSTED: 4:20 pm PDT August 4, 2004
UPDATED: 8:03 pm PDT August 4, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Scott Peterson appeared to cry in court Wednesday during testimony from one of his Modesto friends about the pair looking at camouflage-patterned children's clothing in a catalog in the weeks before his pregnant wife Laci disappeared.
Greg Reed testified that he and Peterson looked at a catalog that included the children's clothing sometime before Dec. 24, 2002, the day Laci Peterson was reported missing.
During that portion of Reed's testimony, Peterson wiped his eyes and face with a hankerchief and several members of the courtroom audience sitting behind him and to his right say they saw a tear roll down his cheek.........----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEARFUL PETERSON LOSES IT IN COURT
TEARFUL PETERSON LOSES IT IN COURT
By HOWARD BREUER Post Correspondent
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August 5, 2004 -- Cries over testimony. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The usually unflappable Scott Peterson openly wept in court yesterday as an old friend recalled how Scott doted on his wife Laci in Lamaze class months before her disappearance.
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Peterson Cries During Friend's Testimony
Friend Says Peterson Left 'Frantic' Message
POSTED: 5:44 pm PDT August 4, 2004
UPDATED: 6:57 pm PDT August 4, 2004
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Accused killer Scott Peterson was moved to tears Wednesday by the testimony of a family friend..........
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Friend's testimony moves Scott Peterson to tears
Article Last Updated: Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 3:41:35 AM PST
Friend's testimony moves Scott Peterson to tears
Peterson described as being 'frantic' upon learning his wife, Laci, was missing
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson wept quietly Wednesday as one of his close friends testified about how they once flipped through the children's clothing section of a hunting-and-fishing catalogue, recalling how excited Peterson was about buying a camouflage outfit for his future son.
In 2002 Gregory Reed and Peterson seemed to lead parallel lives. Both were fathers-to-be, both had joined the Modesto Rotary Club and both belonged to the $23,000-per-member Del Rio Country Club.
Their wives had become close, often getting together to discuss their pregnancies. Scott and Laci Peterson even attended Lamaze classes hosted by Reed and his wife, Kristen.
As Reed slowly and deliberately testified in Peterson's double-murder trial about what once seemed a normal, seemingly happy life and friendship, the two men looked at each other with clear emotion. Wednesday's tears marked the first time in the 11-week-old trial that Peterson cried in the courtroom.
Reed said he received two phone calls from Peterson on the day Laci went missing. The first was a brief chat the two had as Peterson drove back from the Berkeley Marina. That was about 2:40 p.m., and Reed had called to congratulate Peterson on his new membership in the country club.
Prosecutors have characterized Peterson's actions in the days and weeks after his wife went missing as distant, unemotional and callous. But Reed described a man who sounded "frantic" upon learning his wife was missing.
In the next call on Dec. 24, the two did not talk. Peterson left a message on Reed's voicemail at 5:30 p.m. after he returned from the Bay.
"The message was, 'Have you or Kristen .........
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DA: Peterson plotted while Web surfing
DA: Peterson plotted while Web surfing
BY MARY PAPENFUSS
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The Internet was Scott Peterson's best friend.
It's where he turned to buy his girlfriend a romantic Christmas gift, where he went to sell a diamond watch his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, apparently inherited from her grandmother and even where he researched spots to dump her body, an investigator testified yesterday.
Now the Web may prove a fatal trap for Peterson, who could face the death penalty if he's convicted of killing his wife and unborn son.
Offering a detailed reconstruction of Peterson's cyberhabits in the days before he reported his wife missing on Dec. 24, 2002, prosecutors used data gleaned from five of his computers to portray him as a man refining his marital murder plot while pursuing the new object of his affections, massage therapist Amber Frey.
On Dec. 8, 2002, Peterson researched several bodies of water in northern California, looking up maps, currents, boat launch spots and information on fish and fishing licenses, said Lydell Wall, a computer expert with the Stanislaus County sheriff's office.
The next day, he secretly bought a 14-foot fishing boat with cash, according to earlier testimony.
Prosecutors contend the Web searches ........
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Witness boosts theory on when woman died
Posted on Thu, Aug. 05, 2004
Witness boosts theory on when woman died
By Jessie Seyfer
Mercury News
On the day his wife, Laci, was reported missing, Scott Peterson asked a friend whether he had seen her ``today or yesterday,'' the friend testified Wednesday, boosting support for the prosecution theory that Peterson may have killed his wife the day before he told police she disappeared.
Peterson has maintained that he last saw his eight-months-pregnant wife on the morning of Dec. 24 when he left to go fishing on San Francisco Bay. When he returned that day, he told police, she was gone........
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Scott Peterson's demeanor at a Dec. 31, 2002, vigil for his missing wife has been described by witnesses at his trial.
BART AH YOU/THE BEE
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Peterson computer use focus of trial
By JOHN COTÉ and GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITERS
Last Updated: August 5, 2004, 05:10:31 AM PDT
REDWOOD CITY -- Prosecutors Wednesday focused on Scott Peterson's computer activity, trying to show that online queries about boating and San Francisco Bay indicate he planned weeks in advance to murder his pregnant wife. A close friend and outdoorsman also testified that Peterson didn't mention that he had just taken his boat for its maiden voyage when the two spoke by phone on Dec. 24, 2002 -- the day Laci Peterson was reported missing.
Prosecutors contend that Peterson murdered his wife and unborn son that morning or the night before, dumped her body in the bay from a newly purchased boat and crafted a fishing story as cover. Peterson told police his wife was mopping the floor when he left that morning.
The friend, Gregory Reed, testified that Peterson left a "frantic" message on his answering machine Christmas Eve asking if he or his wife had "seen or talked to Laci today or yesterday. … I can't find her."
Prosecutors could argue that Peterson hadn't gotten his alibi straight at that point, legal analysts said. Three other witnesses have testified that they heard Peterson say Christmas Eve that he went golfing earlier that day..........
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Drat! You mean Nancy Grace was on LKL again?? I didn't watch tonight b/c they had the Peterson case on last night, and I didn't think they'd discuss it 2 nights in a row!
Luckily, it'll come on again later!
"believing that the new discovery evidence could benefit Scott?"
Don't you realize, RB, EVERY piece of evidence is "exculpatory" in California? (LOL!)
Because he's a flaming a**hole and the rules never apply to HIM! He can't even attempt to win a case unless he gets special treatment.
Hey pinz, seriously, I believe that's the way all this stuff is played! Politicians do indeed manipulate the media, and we should always remember that! LOL. Why won't my family let me throw away the TV's and never watch again? I'm actually curious to find out what life would be like if someone wasn't playing "head games" with us all the time!
I heard that, too, but it was on Greta V.S.
It occurs to me that if this evidence, such as it is, does not turn out to reflect favorably on Peterson, we'll never hear another word about it again!
The "gag order" means Jackie P. and Geragos are allowed to make us all gag (and retch) as often as they want!
I'll have to catch the re-run too. I actually made 3 apricot pies today and then went to the gym for an hour and a half. I needed to thump the hell outta my anger somewhere!!
LOL Well they have made me GAG often enough!!
Fox/Aphrodite
Grandeos has an expert lined up that will testify that Conners ear (one ear) was pinned.
"Wouldn't hurt if it scared the bejeegus out of Amber at the same time."
I honestly think you've nailed it! Whatever it is, it may or may not benefit Scott, but the point is the way Geragos made sure that a big deal was made out of the TIMING and ANNOUNCEMENT and PUBLICITY of it! It could be anything, but Amber is supposed to think it relates to some embarrassing thing that might be used in the cross exam/impeachment of HER!
As a further indication that this is it, I would like to point everyone to what Gloria Allred was saying tonight on Greta V.S. Suddenly Gloria was putting out warnings, saying things like, "Amber has some rights, too, and she has a right to her privacy... I hope the judge doesn't allow the lawyers to abuse her in their questioning." Gloria actually said this tonight!! She's never really emphasized that before.
That's it. This whole bag of bull**** is nothing but an attempt to rattle Amber.
"Wouldn't hurt if it scared the bejeegus out of Amber at the same time."
I honestly think you've nailed it! Whatever it is, it may or may not benefit Scott, but the point is the way Geragos made sure that a big deal was made out of the TIMING and ANNOUNCEMENT and PUBLICITY of it! It could be anything, but Amber is supposed to think it relates to some embarrassing thing that might be used in the cross exam/impeachment of HER!
As a further indication that this is it, I would like to point everyone to what Gloria Allred was saying tonight on Greta V.S. Suddenly Gloria was putting out warnings, saying things like, "Amber has some rights, too, and she has a right to her privacy... I hope the judge doesn't allow the lawyers to abuse her in their questioning." Gloria actually said this tonight!! She's never really emphasized that before.
That's it. This whole bag of bull**** is nothing but an attempt to rattle Amber.
Is Gagarouse going to have this expert testify that Conner was born with a TODO ear and the satanist can't stand TODO ears so they had it pinned back before they killed him and threw him in the ocean where they had already thrown Laci?
GAGarouse is such a grand stander it is hysterical.
OOOPS! Double post!
What else is new??? :-)
GAGarouse is such a grand stander it is hysterical.
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He may go down-- in History as the greatest TODO-Voodoo Defense Lawyer wearing PINS.
LOL!
LOl, you know, I just tuned in to LKL repeat, and MG didn't look that happy with this news...I'm not at all sure this is good news for the defense.
I'll go ya one better, and say there isn't any real "news" at all! It's all hooey!
On to Amber and Scott's very INCULPATORY TV interviews!
(P.S. If they dare to play any tapes of Jackie P. saying "deny deny deny" or anything else that is not 100% ladylike, I predict Jackie will have (fake) a "medical emergency" right there in the courtroom, a la Monica Lewinsky's sneaky, dishonest mother. In Jackie's mind, this is all about Jackie--not Scott. And if they mess with her "image", she will go into narcissistic shock. lol)
I just wish GAGarouse would pin back that SCHNOZZOLA of his! He is the most unphotogenic TV person I've ever seen.
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