Posted on 12/08/2004 4:07:47 PM PST by stm
I freakin' love it......"He's an exceptional young man and he's my son," she said. "I know he's not perfect ... but he is genuinely a loving, caring, nurturing, kind, gentle person.".....to everyone except his 9 month pregnat wife and unborn child that is....he killed them in cold blood. Apart from that small detail he's a wonderful person!!!
A frail-looking Jackie Peterson (search) tearfully pleaded with jurors Wednesday to spare her son's life, saying that "if you were to take Scott away from us ... we would lose a whole family."
"It would be like Laci never existed," she said, crying so hard at times she was unintelligible.
While defense lawyers flashed Peterson family photographs on a large screen, Jackie Peterson, who uses a portable oxygen tank for a lung ailment, begged jurors to see the good in her son.
"He's an exceptional young man and he's my son," she said. "I know he's not perfect ... but he is genuinely a loving, caring, nurturing, kind, gentle person."
Scott Peterson (search) wiped tears from his eyes as his mother testified.
Defense lawyers are trying to convince jurors that Peterson deserves life in prison, not the death penalty.
The 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman was convicted Nov. 12 of two counts of murder for killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and her fetus.
Prosecutors say he killed Laci in their Modesto home on or around Christmas Eve 2002, then dumped her body into San Francisco Bay. The remains of Laci and the fetus were discovered about four months later near where Peterson claims to have been fishing alone the day his wife vanished
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"Justice" won't be served either way (LWP or Death) here in KA. A caller-in to KFBK (Sacramento) radio, who works in the Folsom Prison "VIP" wing (hi-profile killers and other scum), reports that those inmates *aren't* placed in the general population.
He reports that they get big cells (even by themselves), are *served* meals (no mess hall for them), and really do lead a handled-with-kid-gloves existance.
Hard to believe but, why *has* Charles Manson survived all these years "in the system"???
Seems the Department of Corrections is concerned about the "risks and rights" aspect. If anything happened, the families, with Prisoner Rights Group backing (and maybe the ACLU), could sue big time.
So...if LWP "good old Scotty" wll be the much-coddled permanent guest of the CA taxpayers @ $60K per year. If Death, the appeals process will drag 20 years...but the Death Row cells *are* smaller.
Not much comfort to Laci's family either way.
I wish this -had- taken place in Texas.... they know what to do down there
OMG, I've never seen excuses like this; today when she was talking about her THREE illegitimate children, she said she gave them away because she was CLUELESS.
If Scott didn't know how to "act" upset, why didn't SHE tell him?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's not a mother I know that couldn't have gotten the truth about what happened out of that sissy boy.
If she wanted to.
Frankly, I'm more interested in hearing what we haven't heard about this case because of the gag order than what his penalty will be.
I think he hates his mother; and I think it all started the day he was married when she told him about his "missing" brother and sister.
They all did; the entire family.
It's all going to eventually grind on them
If they ever realize he's actually guilty, it's going to be ugly. They've given up everything to save his sorry a$$.
I agree with you 100 percent.
No doubt about it, mamma is complicit in this crime. Scott seems like a mammas's boy. Most killers are. Some reporter or shrink will eventually write a book about all the stuff in these people's lives. Available on Amazon.com in about 6-12 months.
"I know he's not perfect ..."
Yeah...murder and dismember your pregnant wife without a thought.
Oh well...who are we to judge?
/sar
I think Ann Rule is still in denial.
These are sick people who deserve NO sympathy at all. NONE
See that... it was only a matter of time before we found some common ground. :)
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