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Deesandy

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I also heard that he was trying to shorten the distance his parents would have to travel during the case proceedings. If the judge had not moved this case, he would have gotten an automatic appeal.

Deesandy

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just thought I would mention that if you are clicking on the link first mentioned, to see photos of Ted Bundy and Scott Peterson who look a lot alike, please click on the "older" link and go to "bad men" for the photo.

Deesandy

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
MODESTO, Calif. — Scott Peterson's lawyer said Tuesday the double-murder suspect's parents have spent a million dollars on his defense.

Attorney Mark Geragos made the disclosure while asking Superior Court Judge Al Girolami to move the trial to southern California, closer to the Petersons' San Diego home, as well as Geragos' office in Los Angeles.

He said Jackie and Lee Peterson's funding "has saved the taxpayer's a seven-figure sum, at least" and asked the judge to consider which venue was more convenient and cheaper for them.

He noted that his client has the right to ask the taxpayer's to foot some of the bill if he can no longer afford private representation, but has so far not exercised that right.

Under California law, if a capital defendant becomes indigent before the conclusion of his or her trial, a judge can order the local government to pay the private attorney's costs, albeit at a reduced rate.

Prosecutor Dave Harris objected to the mention of the Petersons' finances, saying the defense team starts talking about public money whenever "the court doesn't give them their way."

In the end, Girolami said southern California was too far from Modesto to be a viable option.

Deesandy

Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Prosecutors Remove Judge in Peterson Case

MODESTO, Calif. - Prosecutors in the murder case against Scott Peterson (news - web sites) exercised their authority Thursday to remove the judge appointed to preside at the trial, contending he is biased against them.

Under California law, the prosecution and the defense each have one opportunity to remove a judge without having to give a reason. A new judge will be appointed by California's chief justice.

Peterson, 31, is accused of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, just before Christmas 2002 and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. Her remains and those of the fetus she was carrying later washed ashore.

Prosecutors acted a day after retired Judge Richard Arnason, 82, was named to oversee the Peterson case when it is moved from central California to the San Francisco Bay area.

The case is being moved after a Modesto judge ruled Peterson could not easily get a fair trial in his dead wife's hometown.

Deputy District Attorney Rick Distaso said Arnason "is prejudiced against the interest of the party, so that I believe I cannot have a fair and impartial hearing."

Prosecutors refused to comment on their reason for removing the judge, said a receptionist in the Stanislaus County District Attorney's office. Peterson's defense lawyer did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

The tactical move will postpone the case that was scheduled to start Monday, said Lynn Holton, spokeswoman for the state's court administration.

Holton said it will take State Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George until next week to find another judge for the case.

A hearing is scheduled Friday in Modesto to discuss the transfer to a courthouse in Redwood City and future court dates.

Arnason was selected in part because of his experience handling major trials.

Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Defense objects to use of GPS technology to follow Scott Peterson

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Defense lawyer Mark Geragos will try to convince the judge in the Scott Peterson double-murder case Wednesday that global positioning technology is inaccurate and unreliable.

Legal experts said he faces an uphill battle, since the technology has been in use for many years by airline pilots and even hikers to pinpoint locations to within a few feet, using signals bounced off satellites.

Geragos has said his client was tracked by Global Positioning System devices placed by authorities in vehicles he drove after his wife, Laci, disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002. Geragos wants all the GPS tracking evidence excluded from the trial.

"The GPS technology has not been generally accepted by the scientific community," he contended in court papers filed in October.

Geragos faces a gag order and can't comment on what he hopes to gain by keeping the tracking evidence out of the trial. Likewise, prosecutors haven't said how they hope to use the evidence.

If his claims about GPS unreliability fail to persuade Judge Alfred A. Delucchi at the Wednesday hearing, Geragos hopes to prove the device used to track Peterson was operated improperly by Modesto police.

Police used GPS to track Peterson from Jan. 3 through April 22, 2003, when they arrested him near San Diego only days after the bodies of his wife and unborn son surfaced in San Francisco Bay.

GPS was first developed for military use in 1978. In California, prosecutors who use GPS evidence in court are required to establish the device's reliability using properly qualified experts.

Prosecutors not connected to the Peterson trial say this shouldn't pose a problem.

"We all know from how much we use GPS now that it's quite accurate," said Mark Hutchins, senior deputy district attorney in Alameda County. "Airplanes use it. Everyone's got a GPS map thing in their car."



Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
USA 73 Feb 15 09:00pm Add to My Calendar
Movies, 120 Mins.
(Rated NR) (Y)

Scott Peterson proclaims his innocence after authorities accuse him of murdering his pregnant wife.

Cast: Dean Cain, David Denman, G.W. Bailey, Paul Vincent O'Connor.
Director(s): Roger Young.
Producer(s): Diane Sokolow, Diana Kerew.
Writer(s): David Erickson.
Distribution: Columbia




Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I still have this posted in the diary, but here it is:

I am still scared by it. bad

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My daughter is a police explorer cadet and went on a ride along this past Sunday night. They arrested two men for dui, drug possession and no license. Long story short, they took them to the San Mateo County jail and she got to have a peek at Scott Peterson. He was sleeping so she really couldn't see him but she said that the guard said that he is very polite and well mannered. And that he is always smiling and his smile is very scary. He says there is something in that man's eyes. It's the old kill them with charm.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i did not watch the movie out of respect for lacy's family. they asked that people boycott it, so i did. her step-father was the head of the construction company that built our latest strip-mall about 6 blocks from me--during the time lacy disappeared. they had an article in the modesto paper about the 'wrongs' of the movie. the family was worried someone on the jury would see the film and get 'based on fact' confused with 'actual fact'. there were some erroneous dates and facts that COULD affect someone's thinking. one of the things, for example, was that scott talked with his girlfriend on new year's eve and she got scared and called the police later. in reality, she called the police on dec 30. if i can find the archived comparison between reality and hollywood, i will post the link here.
for me, i am amazed there was a movie made when there is no end to the story yet.
sometimes hollywood sucks big time!

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
crud, i should have lifted the article when i saw it last week. they want money to view it now. anyway, suffice it to say, the movie supposedly was not very accurate. lacy's family felt it mostly portrayed scott as innocent. they were given a private viewing a week or so in advance; that is when they asked people to please not watch it.

Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tabby, if I had known that I would not have watched either. I knew going in to it that the actor who played Scott was doing so as if he were innocent.

I do not believe that he is.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1:49 p.m., PST: REDWOOD CITY - Police used dogs to track Scott Peterson as well as his missing wife, testimony in Peterson’s double-murder case revealed this morning.
Police used a trailing dog to track Peterson’s scent along Highway 132 west of Modesto after a separate dog picked up Laci Peterson’s scent on the road eight days earlier, one of the dog handlers testified.



Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SAN MATEO - A cadaver dog picked up Laci Peterson's scent in a shed
behind
her Modesto home on Dec. 27, 2002 - three days after the 27-year-old
pregnant substitute teacher was reported missing, the dog's handler
testified this afternoon.


Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 4:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Scott Peterson is free to sell his story to the movies or make book deals, a judge ruled over the objections of Peterson's slain wife's mother. Separately, another judge ruled Thursday that the jury at Peterson's murder trial will not be sequestered, despite warnings from the defense about the public's fascination with the case. Peterson, 31, is accused of killing his wife, Laci, and unborn child in December 2002 and could get the death penalty if convicted