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Witnesses hurt Scott Peterson's defense, experts sayREDWOOD CITY -- Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against Scott Peterson have endured ridicule and scorn from legal pundits for missteps throughout the double-murder trial, but a string of successful witnesses last week has brought them back, legal experts say....

Peterson Witness Says Detective LiedIn testimony in the Scott Peterson murder trial Wednesday, a witness who said he saw a pregnant woman walking a dog in a park near the Peterson home on Christmas Eve 2002 said he was "100% positive" the woman was not Laci Peterson. Score one for the prosecution, who claims that Scott Peterson killed his wife the night before, and therefore couldn't have been walking in the park that day. That theory contradicts Peterson's story. He says the last time he saw his wife was the morning of December 24th, 2002, as she was headed out...

Two more witnesses will take the stand, including an expert testifying about the age of Laci Peterson's fetus. Grogan will resume testimony today and continue Thursday.

PETERSON JURY FEARED DEADLOCKED as per Drudge and FoxNews...

SQUEAMISH SCOTT Scott PetersonSQUEAMISH SCOTT By HOWARD BREUER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 18, 2003 -- MODESTO, Calif. - Scott Peterson uncharacteristically excused himself from court yesterday morning as prosecutors called to the stand a pathologist who graphically detailed the state of the bodies of his slain wife and unborn son. "Yes, I do not wish to be present during this witness," Peterson, 31, calmly told the judge as he was returned to his cell. "It's my choice." It was the first time since Peterson's mid-April arrest that he waived his right to appear in court. Brian Lee Peterson, who autopsied the bodies...

April 17 — The father of missing pregnant woman Laci Peterson is not waiting for test results on a female torso and male fetus found on a San Francisco Bay-area beach to accuse his daughter's husband of murder. • Missing Woman's Dad Wants Husband Charged "It's her husband Scott," Dennis Rocha said in a telephone interview with WBZ-TV in Boston. "He never looked me in the eye. And he never pleaded for her. He just shows no remorse." Authorities are conducting tests to determine whether the torso and fetus found a mile apart on consecutive days are those of Laci...

August 4, 2004 -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson ordered explicit, 'round-the-clock satellite porn three weeks after his pregnant wife disappeared — but abruptly canceled the service as cops raided his house, a witness testified yesterday. Donald Toy, a Dish Network representative, testified on the 33rd day of Peterson's double-murder trial that Peterson began subscribing to the Playboy Channel two weeks after wife Laci vanished, and tried it for four days before deciding to move on to the harder stuff: the "TENXtsy" package. "They're adult content. Very explicit," Toy said of the movies. "You can order one movie at...

Will Scott Peterson Take the Stand?Scott Peterson has taken part in mock cross-examinations by a former California prosecutor in an apparent attempt to determine if he should testify in his on defense in his double-murder trial for the deaths of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson. Michael Cardoza, a former Alameda County prosecutor, told The Modesto Bee that he twice conducted mock cross-examinations of Peterson last week in the San Mateo County jail in sessions that lasted for hours. Lead attorney Mark Geragos observed the sessions, but did not ask for a recommendation on whether Peterson should testify, Cardoza said. "I’m...

OK guys beat this caption: "Scott Peterson, above, shows the jury the location of his hidden fangs." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041108/D867ST500.html

Jurors may be told to consider lesser charges against Scott Peterson REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Jurors weighing first-degree murder charges against Scott Peterson will likely have the option of finding the fertilizer salesman guilty of second-degree murder, greatly increasing the chances of conviction in the eyes of legal experts. Judge Alfred Delucchi has scheduled a conference with lawyers for Friday to finalize the charges presented to the panel, but lawyers who have followed the case say rulings by the state's Supreme Court leave the veteran capital trial judge little choice but to add the lower count to the verdict form....

In closing, prosecutor says parenthood pushed Scott Peterson to kill REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson killed his pregnant wife because fatherhood threatened his "fantasyland" double life as a "rich, successful, freewheeling bachelor," a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Monday in his capital murder trial. Prosecutor Rick Distaso said the fertilizer salesman strangled or smothered his 27-year-old spouse, Laci, in their home on Dec. 23 or Dec. 24, 2002, so he could be free of the lifetime of responsibilities the child would bring. "He didn't want adult married life. He didn't want Conner Peterson," Distaso said, referring to the...

Greta spent first 10 minutes of show on President Bush and is now covering Scott Peterson. Can't that wait til ..... tomorrow...?

Jurors turn focus to Scott Peterson's fishing boat REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Jurors in Scott Peterson's capital murder trial want to see the boat the fertilizer salesman allegedly used to dump his wife's body in the San Francisco Bay, according to two sources close to the case. The panel wrote a note to Judge Alfred Delucchi Friday requesting an inspection of the 14-foot aluminum Gamefisher Peterson took out on the bay Dec. 24, 2002, the day he reported his wife, Laci, missing. The sources confirmed to Court TV that the boat will be brought to the courthouse and jurors will...

Judge removes juror from Scott Peterson's murder trial Scott Peterson could face the death penalty if convicted of killing his wife and unborn son REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Jurors who have been weighing capital murder charges against Scott Peterson for five days were ordered Tuesday afternoon to start from scratch after a panelist was removed from the jury and replaced with an alternate. Judge Alfred Delucchi did not give a specific reason for the removal of the woman, Juror 7, but indicated in his instructions to the remaining jurors that the dismissed juror may have violated court rules by trying...

Whenever a human goes on trial for the murder of another human, public attention is diverted to the suspect’s face and conduct. Is there a tell-tale skipped heartbeat visible in the defendant’s expression? Signs of mourning? Anguish or grief? Hand-wringing or trembling? There’d better be. If you’re a rich superstar athlete like O.J. Simpson, buckets of blood on your walls can’t convict you and you can walk away grinning from ear to ear. If you’re a beefy, smug-mugged ordinary chump like Scott Peterson, bad psychology can convict you. Sometimes Scott’s grin appeared like a mocking smirk. Mostly, he was inert....

Just announced on Fox News! Who of us will be able to sleep tonight? Will Greta now have a two-hour show? Will the state of Kalifornia ever be the same? We need to send Scott Peterson to France to take out Arafat! Help me somebody.... brain beginning to melt....

Back to square one The judge presiding over the Scott Peterson double-murder trial has announced that one of the jurors has been replaced by an alternate, meaning deliberations must start anew

Watching the Fox News Special about the wife/baby murderer. A gentleman from the prison system commented on how the inmates were interested in the verdict. He further stated that the prisoners would "make it known" to Peterson how they feel about a child killer.

November 13, 2004 Of Course Scott Peterson Is Guilty - Court TV Channel Has Been Screaming The Verdict For Months by: Dennis M. Becklin Medford, Oregon - Off with his head, I guess. I don't personally know if Scott Peterson is guilty. I didn't personally hear any of the evidence. But, it's obvious that he's guilty because Nancy Grace of CourtTV, and Geraldo Rivera and Gloria Allred of FoxTV have all been screaming for his head on national TV for months. How could they possibly be wrong? It's shades of the coliseum again. 82-percent of American TV watchers signaled with...

Dr Gregory Jackson (Doctor-Lawyer) went to the judge Monday, complained they wanted to rush to a verdict and not look at the evidence. That was the cause of the mysterious "open mind" speech to the jury from the judge. He returned to the judge on Wednesday, claimed the jury wanted to reach a judgement to please the community, claimed they were into book deals and felt they wouldn't be as marketable and other jurors had threatened him and asked to be relieved because he felt he could be coerced into choosing guilty and could no longer be part of the...