Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $20,311
25%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 25%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: timetofry

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • For Peterson jury, circumstantial evidence made case for murder

    11/12/2004 4:47:48 PM PST · by LouAvul · 22 replies · 824+ views
    modbee ^ | 11-12-04
    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - It was circumstantial evidence that led jurors to decide that Scott Peterson planned the killing of his wife. They agreed it was premeditated, first-degree murder even though prosecutors didn't prove where, how or exactly when Laci was killed. The jury did so, legal analysts said, because of the cumulative weight of all the circumstantial factors that pointed to Peterson - not least his alibi about going fishing in San Francisco Bay the day she disappeared from her home in Modesto, more than 85 miles southeast. When her body and that of her fetus turned up...