Posted on 11/09/2004 11:25:36 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Some observers in the Scott Peterson murder trial are speculating that jurors are close to a deadlock.
They were summoned to the courtroom yesterday where the judge asked them to consider changing their opinions in order to reach a verdict.
After that the jury asked to review some pieces of evidence including an anchor found on Peterson's boat. Prosecutors allege he used similar type of weights to dump his pregnant wife's body into the San Francisco Bay.
Jurors also asked to look at transcripts and recordings of telephone calls between Peterson and his mistress, Amber Frey.
The panel enters a fifth day of deliberations today.
Lock him up and be done with it already....
Nope, he'll get off - prosecution hasn't proved squat. Not that I don't believe he's guilty, but no way could I vote for death on the flimsy evidence the DA presented.
The case against Scott is far stronger than many other murder trials -- some without a body -- that have led to convictions. The prosecutors did an excellent job of proving beyond reasonable doubt that he is quilty. Of course, there are nitwits who demand the prosecutors prove beyond any doubt -- which is absurd.
The verdict is not supposed to be your grade of the DA's evidence and presentation, it's supposed to be whether you reasonably THINK he did it.
I have not followed this case but I did hear about the boat and could Scott have thrown his wife overboard with the cement tied to her.
Whats the story on that? Wouldnt that have tipped that small boat over?
It is not that the prosecution has done a bad job in presenting the evidence it is the simple fact that there is not any evidence linking him to these murders other than speculation and innuendo. I believe he murdered them but could not send someone to his death or life in prison based on what is available.
No, it's not a canoe. And he didn't need to stand up to do the dirty dead.
All the evidence is circumstantial. If I were a juror (which I was one time), I could never send a man to death based on that type of evidence. It's not logical.
Oh great, does this mean we get a year of 24-7 Fox coverage of Peterson Trial II? Maybe there will be some good car chases or something to break the monotony.
Huh?!
It appears you're saying the jurors should disregard the evidence and return a verdict based upon their feelings about... What? Scott's suit? The color of his eyes? Whether he polished his shoes? His haircut?
If they're supposed to disregard the evidence, then by what criteria do they convict or acquit?
Whether Peterson did or did not commit the crime is irrelevant; the prosecutors failed to prove it.
They cannot prove:
1) where the crime was committed. They hypotheisize it was in the house, but there is ZERO forensic evidence of this.
2) How it was done. They think he strangled her, but cannot prove it.
3) When it was done. The prosecutors theorize that it happened the night before, but have not proven it.
4) Why it was done. They claim Scot did it because he wanted to marry AMber, but he had already ended his sexual relationship with her. They say he called her over and over but two thirds of those calls were placed by Amber. They say he took out a large life insurance policy on Laci before he killed her, but it was over a year old and had been initiated by Laci herself and there was one on
Scot also.
The ONE AND ONLY reason that prosecutors went after Scot is because they bought into the feminazi propaganda that women are most often killed by their husbands, and that is a compelte lie and a slander on husbands. That claim is based on studies that did not distinguish between live in husbands, actual husbands, boyfriends, dates, or even pimps!
A woman is far safer at home with her husband than in the company of strangers and common sense ought to tell people that.
Scot Peterson is likely innocent but may end up being convicted on the basis of enuendo and well publicized lies. The police lied to his friends about the money he had, about his life insurance, his relationship with Amber and far more. But lying to othe press to poison the well of jurors is not a crime and they took full advantage of it.
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counter body
weight
the line with the body and counter weight
straddles the boat; he simply cuts the middle of the
rope; before cutting he positions the weights and
body left and right of the center line to keep balance
Recall that a body has a density not much different than
that of water - a body in the water but still tied the boat will not need 150 pounds of counter weight
I figure he used two of his five cement weights for the body and two for the counter weight.
The key is to find the counterweights - is there any progress in that area? Has the search space been exausted?
Could vote for manslaughter and send him to jail for life? Or some other term?
I haven't followed this case much, but basically detest Peterson, who certainly acted guilty in the days and weeks after Laci's disappearance. I'll be disappointed if he goes free. I get to be prejudiced; I'm not on the jury.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A juror in Scott Peterson's (search) double-murder trial was dismissed and replaced Tuesday, forcing the jury to start its deliberations all over again.
The pool of 12 had been mulling over the case for five days. Juror No. 7 was let go by Judge Alfred A. Delucchi (search) on Tuesday and replaced by an alternate juror, a white woman in her 30s who's the mother of four boys, FOX News has learned.
It wasn't immediately clear what the errant juror, said to be an Asian woman in her 50s and a retired Pacific Gas & Electric (search) employee, did to warrant being booted out of court...
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