Posted on 11/12/2004 11:24:19 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
News Alert: Scott Peterson Verdict to be announced today at 4:00 Eastern Time.
No, Laurie Dhue. A show that comes on that late has to be easy on the eyes.
Hung at 5 PM.
I can dream can't I?
Mark for... well whatever.
I'm kinda curious about the verdict.
And my hand surgery to replace the bones in my punching hand would be just about healed.
Freeper high five on media multi-tasking.
LOL
Marker here, too.
"How many people really care anymore about this circus?"
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I couldn't give a damn. It's sickening how the media fawns over this. I'm a policy wonk myself.
Nope. They have an even chance.
Hanged is the correct term, not hung. Many men are hung, but Peterson isn't probably one of them.
Couldn't find a gif file for a bag of hammers huh?...:-)
I have issues with this, too. I assume that geragos' contract includes the majority of any book and movie rights, reality show and merchandising royalties, the rights to any theme-restaurants, clothing lines, boat and fishing equipment endorsements, etc.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Jurors in the Scott Peterson (news - web sites) murder trial reached a verdict Friday, winding up the sensational case on their second day of deliberations after having to start back at square one twice in two days.
Judge Alfred A. Delucchi told the court, filled with attorneys, the media and Peterson himself, that the verdict would be made public at 4 p.m. EST. Audio of the court proceeding was to be made available for broadcasters, but not video, the judge had ruled.
The verdict followed the back-to-back dismissals of jurors on Tuesday and Wednesday and a day off of deliberations for Veterans Day. The two dismissed jurors were replaced with alternates, and each time, the panel was told to begin deliberations anew.
The final panel had deliberated for around five hours on Wednesday and an additional three hours Friday. Jurors were deciding whether Peterson killed his pregnant wife, Laci, who vanished Dec. 24, 2002, from their home in Modesto. He faced a second murder count in the death of the fetus, a boy the couple planned to name Conner.
The highly publicized trial began with jury selection in March and opening arguments in June. Closing arguments were presented Nov. 1 and 2 and the original panel began deliberating Nov. 3.
Prosecutors claim Peterson killed Laci, then dumped her weighted body into San Francisco Bay, because he wanted to escape marriage and fatherhood. The remains of Laci and the fetus were discovered in April a few miles from where Peterson says he went fishing alone the day his wife vanished.
The defense contended someone else killed her and said prosecutors had never proven he had any motive to kill.
Jurors were given the option of finding Peterson not guilty or convicting him or first- or second-degree murder.
First-degree convictions, carrying the death penalty or life without parole, would mean jurors concluded Peterson planned the killings. Second-degree murder convictions don't require a finding of premeditation and carry sentences of 15 years to life for each count.
On Wednesday, Delucchi dismissed the jury foreman, a man in his mid-40s who has medical and law degrees. The judge did not disclose his reasoning.
The action came a day after the removal of another juror who apparently did her own research on the case, violating the judge's order to consider only evidence presented at trial.
While deliberations went on earlier this week, the drama shifted from the courtroom to a parking lot a few blocks away. Defense attorney Mark Geragos parked a replica boat there Monday after the deliberating jurors viewed the actual boat prosecutors allege Peterson used to dump his wife's body.
But the replica boat and its contents - coveralls stuffed with weights and concrete anchors tied to the arms and legs - quickly became a makeshift shrine, with candles, flowers and hand-lettered signs reading "Rot in Prison" and "Justice for Laci and Conner."
Geragos had hoped to show jurors a videotaped experiment performed by the defense during which the replica boat apparently filled with water, but the judge did not allow it.
Exactly.
President Bush was relected. For all of us posting on this thread.....we gotta get a life.
Janice Dean The Weather Machine ain't too shabby....
I figured a "sack a gravel" was a good second choice. ;O)
Knowing the lying slime he is, he will try to spin it or perhaps even blame someone on his staff. However even his staunches supporters (excluding Weintraub of course) have called these antics spoiled-brat-like in not getting his way. My only disappointment was not hearing from Feiger who would have verbally slapped him up one side and down the other. From the onset he claimed MG is over-rated and a guilty verdict will prove what we've all believed. I pray Geragos gets a stiff penalty for his child-like behavior.
Panel on CTV seem to believe the verdict will be GUILTY but believe they've compromised to second degree. Just wish we were privy to the video as well as the audio.
And BTW: the "cop out" verdict of 2nd degree doesn't even stand up to logic, but of course the 'no death penalty' crowd won't care.
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