Escalon To Host Bench Dedication For Laci Peterson
Escalon's Main Street Park will soon be home to a special bench, dedicated in memory of Laci Peterson.
City Council members on Monday night approved closure of a portion of Main Street for the dedication ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 20.
Laci's cousin, Shawn Rocha, is coordinating .......
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Jury Begins Deliberations In The Peterson Case
REDWOOD CITY -- Jurors began deliberating the fate of Scott Peterson Wednesday, more than five months after testimony began in his double murder trial.
Judge Alfred A. Delucchi sent the panelists off with lunch into the jury room after about 45 minutes of instructions.
Jurors must decide whether Peterson killed his pregnant wife and dumped her body in San Francisco Bay, or was merely a straying husband who was framed. He plans to keep the jury sequestered until it reaches a verdict.
"You can't base a reasonable doubt on an unreasonable interpretation of the evidence," prosecutor Rick Distaso told jurors in a brief rebuttal Wednesday to the defense closing argument. "It's just not reasonable that anyone put that body in the bay to frame him. If it's not reasonable, you must reject it."......
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November 4, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson's prosecution ridiculed the defense yesterday for suggesting Laci was not slain by her philandering husband, but by some covert pack of marauding vagrants who rove the leafy California suburb.
"You've got to feel bad for the homeless people in this case," prosecutor Rick Distaso quipped. ........
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DAY ONE: Nov. 3, 2004
4:00 p.m. PT: Jury stops deliberating for the day.
Court reporter announces that the jury stopped deliberating. The panelists leave the courthouse in a small white "Serendipity Charter Company" bus. —Harriet Ryan
3:57 p.m.: Additional court officers are sworn in to guard the panel.
Judge Alfred Delucchi swears in nine more court officers, bringing the total number of bailiffs guarding the jury and the alternates to 22. The officers will guard the panel around-the-clock. —Harriet Ryan
3:41 p.m.
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Arguments conclude, case goes to jury
Updated: 2:00 p.m. PST -The sequestered jurors in Scott Peterson's murder trial were to begin deciding his fate today as soon as they finish lunch, the judge said this morning after both sides presented closing arguments.
"You can discuss it till you're blue in the face, but not when you're not in the jury room, not with the alternates and not with any staff at that hotel," Judge Alfred Delucchi told them.
Outside the courtroom, Peterson's sister, Susan Caudillo, said: "We're very confident .......
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Deliberation Begins in Peterson Trial
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Jurors in the Scott Peterson (news - web sites) murder case began deliberating whether the former fertilizer salesman killed his pregnant wife, and will remain sequestered until they can decide between a conviction based on largely circumstantial evidence or an acquittal that accepts the defense's theory of a possible frame-up. .......
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NEWS IMAGES of Rebuttal Hearing
