Posted on 08/31/2004 5:30:37 AM PDT by runningbear
Testimony in Peterson trial turns to evidence from search dogs
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Testimony in the murder trial of Scott Peterson is turning to a new phase.
Prosecutors say search dogs picked up the sent of Laci Peterson in the Berkeley Marina -- the place where Scott Peterson says he launched his fishing trip the day his wife disappeared.
A volunteer for a search and rescue team is due on the stand today. He'll be asked how search dogs responded when they were brought to the marina.
The testimony about what the dogs found comes after testimony from a computer expert about Peterson's computer searches.
Lydell Wall of the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department told the court that Peterson searched the Internet for ads for used boats, fishing information ....
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Canines to take spotlight this week
Article Last Updated: Monday, August 30, 2004 - 7:53:23 AM PST
Canines to take spotlight this week
Cadaver dogs tracked Laci's scent to Berkeley Marina, police say
By Tim Hay, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- A cadaver dog called Twist and a bloodhound named Merlin will star this week in the drama of the Scott Peterson murder trial.
Police dog handlers say the canines tracked Laci's scent from her home to Interstate 580 -- and eventually to the end of a pier at the Berkeley Marina -- two days after she disappeared.
But the defense has said dog-tracking isn't hard science, and that one of the hounds "hit more spots than Paris Hilton on a Saturday night" as it sniffed around for the missing woman. The dog issue was hotly debated in February, when Judge Alfred Delucchi ruled that most of it could be admitted as evidence.
It will come up again this week, the judge said.
Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputies testified in February that one dog traced Laci from her home to about the end of her driveway, suggesting the pregnant woman left in a vehicle.
Deputy Cindee Valentin said her bloodhound then trailed the scent to Interstate 580, which leads to the Bay.
Deputy Eloise Anderson said her cadaver dog Twist followed Laci's scent to the end of a pier at the Berkeley Marina, where Peterson .....
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Conflicting Evidence Heard In Laci Peterson Case
A volunteer for a search and rescue team is returning to the stand Tuesday in the Scott Peterson double murder trial.
Monday, evidence from dog handlers placed Laci Peterson at the same marina where Scott Peterson said he launched his boat the day he reported his wife missing. That was December 24th, 2002.......
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Computer evidence used to suggest Laci Peterson was online on key day
Whoever used Scott Peterson's home computer on the day he said his wife disappeared had decidedly feminine tastes, according to testimony in the double-murder trial this morning.
In the four minutes the computer was used the morning of Dec. 24, 2002, the user searched the Internet looking for information about an umbrella stand decorated with a sunflower motif and viewed a fleece scarf from the apparel retailer Gap, said computer forensic expert Lydell Wall.
Defense attorney Mark Geragos tried to suggest that the computer user that day was Peterson's wife, Laci, not his client.
"Were you ever asked or were you ever able to determine who the person was who was logged on?" Geragos asked.
"No," Wall replied......
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Was Laci Peterson alive and using the Internet on the morning that police believe she had already been murdered, or was her husband was creating a World Wide Web of deception?
On the morning of Dec. 24, 2002 - the day the eight-months-pregnant Modesto woman was reported missing -- someone got on the Petersons' home computer and accessed a Yahoo shopping site. The user browsed a $20.99 umbrella stand decorated in sunflowers, a garden weather vane, a digital weather station and a $6.99 fleece scarf from the Gap, according to a cyber detective who examined Scott Peterson's computer hard drives.
Two minutes later, the user looked at Scott Peterson's E-mail account and then researched weather conditions in San Jose, said Lydell Wall, an investigator with the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department. Wall ran forensic tests on five of Peterson's computers after Laci Peterson disappeared.......
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Couple's laptop computer used for shopping Dec. 24
REDWOOD CITY -- A prosecution expert opened the door Monday to the possibility that Laci Peterson was alive and shopping online after prosecutors say she was murdered by her husband. Someone used the Petersons' home computer to shop for a Gap pro fleece scarf and a sunflower-motif umbrella stand at 8:44 a.m. the day Laci Peterson was reported missing, the prosecution's computer expert testified Monday in the double-murder trial of Scott Peterson.
The witness, Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department Detective Lydell Wall, testified that no one ever asked him to try to determine who the computer user was.
His testimony offered an opening for the defense to attack the prosecution timeline in the case and raise questions about its theory that Peterson murdered his pregnant wife and unborn son late Dec. 23 or early Dec. 24, 2002.
Someone used a laptop computer police found at the Peterson home to go online Dec. 24 from about 8:40 to 8:45 a.m., Wall said.
The user checked weather in San Jose and at 8:44 a.m. went to a Yahoo! shopping site that contained the scarf and umbrella stand,......
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Timeline at center of Peterson trial
REDWOOD CITY -- Recently uncovered evidence in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial appears to support prosecutors' version of key events on Dec. 24, 2002, despite some news reports to the contrary.
The evidence -- a time-stamped ATM receipt -- may help cement prosecutors' timeline for that day, a Bee simulation suggests, despite stepped-up attacks by Peterson's supporters.
At issue is whether Peterson lied about the first leg of his alibi. Authorities say he did, to improve the believability of his now-famous Christmas Eve fishing trip.
The prosecution analysis of phone records, testimony and Peterson's alibi provides only 10 minutes for 8-months-pregnant Laci Peterson to finish mopping the floor, change clothes, begin walking her dog and be abducted before the dog appeared alone in front of the couple's Covena Avenue home.
"All these things are impossible," prosecutor Rick Distaso said in January. "If those things are impossible, then this man murdered Laci Peterson.".......
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Peterson Said He Was Happy About Being a Dad
In tapes played in court Monday, Scott Peterson never wavered from his claim he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance.
In a phone conversation with Laci Peterson's brother Brent Rocha taped January 16, 2003, the jury heard Scott Peterson insist he was a happy man, eager to become a father.
First Rocha said, "So then I'm just trying to understand. My point of view is your motive. I mean, like were you happy to have this baby coming?"
Peterson said, "Oh, absolutely. Conner. Come on, you know that."
"Okay," said Rocha.
"I mean, we've ... I mean that would be wonderful," said Peterson.
"Then, I mean … because I mean ... it looks like they're out to nail you right now," said Rocha.
"Oh, of course they are," said Peterson........
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Defense lawyers for Scott Peterson try to poke holes in slaying timeline
REDWOOD CITY -- Laci Peterson may have been alive and surfing the Web as late as midmorning on the day she disappeared, Scott Peterson's lawyers suggested Monday in an attempt to raise doubts about the prosecution's timeline of the crime.
Lydell Wall of the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department, returning to the stand for cross-examination, testified that someone used Peterson's home computer to search shopping Web sites for a scarf and a sunflower umbrella stand on Dec. 24, 2002, between 8:40 a.m. and 8:45 a.m.
"Who was the person who logged on at 8:40 a.m.?" defense lawyer Mark Geragos asked.
Wall could not answer. He said authorities never asked him to determine exactly who used the home computer that morning. Laci Peterson had a tattoo of a sunflower on her ankle.
Prosecutors allege Peterson killed his pregnant wife in their Modesto home either late on Dec. 23 or early on Dec. 24, then drove to San Francisco Bay and dumped her body from a boat he kept at a warehouse. The remains of Laci Peterson and her fetus washed ashore months later, not far from where Peterson claims he set out on a solo fishing trip the day his wife vanished.......
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Peterson felt strong pressure, defense says
By Jason Dearen, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson's bizarre behavior -- captured in bugged phone calls in the weeks after his wife disappeared -- resulted in part from increasing media scrutiny and the fact that his missing wife's family had begun turning an accusatory eye on him, his defense attorney argued Monday.
The theory was floated as Steven Jacobson, an investigator for the Stanislaus County district attorney who oversaw the wiretapping of Peterson's phones, was on the stand for more cross-examination by defense attorney Mark Geragos.
Geragos wanted to counter damaging calls played by the prosecution last week that highlighted Peterson's chronic lying -- even to his own mother -- about a range of subjects. The calls also captured an angry Peterson cursing a Fox News reporter who was hounding him. ......
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Thank you!
Sorry!!
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Scroll down for the concrete discussion..Yes some of us saw it..Hope it's true!..Jim Hammer said it,too.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/9072503p-9971480c.html
This article, found above under "Timeline at center of Peterson trial", tells us exactly what Redwood City reporter Richard Cole did. (Richard Cole is a heavyset reporter who appears on Greta VS and sometimes LKL; he has white hair which is about shoulder-length.) In my opinion, we should all
BOYCOTT RICHARD COLE!
He should be censured by the newspaper he works for, and he should be hounded the way I'm sure Karen Servas is being hounded.
Geragos is a great one for picking on single mothers. First Amber Frey, and now Karen Servas. I think someone in that courtroom should go up to Geragos' little boy, whom he brings there as a cheap ploy to make the jury like him, and tell little Jake, "your daddy is a liar who picks on single mothers." My opinion!
Scotty needs to meet this dog....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1203835/posts
My posting muse was absent, and although they're low, I do have standards... :)
LMAO!!!
Was Laci's scent on the boat.
Thank you for the ping and your daily updates.
Jackie, do you know where can I read the opening statements of the attorneys?
The Scarf thing bothered me so I went back and read the opening statements.
Distasto states:
Pg 93 Pay attention to this particular kind of CASHMERE Colored Scarf. It's the same one that you saw that was hung up on the hook when Laci Peterson's purse was found and it's the same discription of the one that Amy Rocha will tell you Laci was wearing on Dec23rd.
He goes to photo-
Scarf-It is the same one shown in the Photo taken of Laci and Snott on the Beach in Carmel b/w Dec. 16-18th.
http://www.mercurynews.com/multimedia/mercurynews/archive/peterson_prosecution_opening.pdf
Cashmere is a fabric type not a color. Did he mean Cream and said Cashmere? The scarf was found with her purse it was not missing.
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