http://www.modbee.com/reports/laci/story/7433534p-8351578c.html Police hypnotize second woman
By JOHN COTÉ
BEE STAFF WRITER
Published: September 12, 2003, 06:35:14 AM PDT
A woman who was hypnotized during the police investigation of the disappearance of Laci Peterson last year has raised new questions about the handling of the case, according to a report obtained Thursday.
The woman, Diane Jackson, is now a potential witness for the defense. She is one of two people known to have been hypnotized in the investigation.
In a statement to investigators, she provided new information that is at odds with a police version of a neighborhood burglary about the time Laci Peterson, nearly eight months pregnant, disappeared in late December.
Jackson said Thursday she could not comment publicly because members of Scott Peterson's defense team have informed her she will be subpoenaed as a witness, bringing her under a sweeping gag order imposed in the double-murder case.
According to the report, Jackson told police she was driving to her home in the La Loma neighborhood at 11:40 a.m. Dec. 24 when she saw three men standing near a tan van parked in front of 516 Covena Ave., directly across the street from the Peterson home. One rear van door was open, the other ajar, she said......snipped
I don't think that is very devestating to the Prosecution. THAT stupid van was forensically tested and there was NOTHING in it of Laci. No blood, no hair, no nothing. And remember Geragos bought the thing and had HIS experts test it. We have heard absolutely NOTHING about it ever since. And he bought it and had it tested waaay before the gag order if I remember right. I'm just not worried about Geragos's rebuttal info. I think the Prosecution just has too much to rebutt effectively. He'll nip around the edges but that's about all.