Peterson guilty

Scott Peterson Guilty.

It's a two fold victory in my eyes, I thought he was guilty and it proves you cannot just buy an inncoent verdict by getting a lawyer like Geragos.

WOOOOOT!!!! Peterson Guilty of 1st Degree Murder for Laci and Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder for Conner

Let the appeals begin...

I'll second the w00t!

third the woooot! The bastard!!

You'll forgive me if I don't woot until I hear the fucker has been analy raped to death with a fire extinguisher in prison

ooohhh--nice touch! It does definitely bring out the darker side of me too. I am with ya Talen.

Ha! Glad the jury saw through Geragos's flimflam.
I was suspicious about Scott from day one. Even without the murder part he's still a smug two-faced son of a bithch.

BTW, did you hear about the boat with a headless manaquin inside it showing up in a parking lot that Geragos owned? WHat was up with that?

In case I get flamed for saying I think he is guilty (though so for it appears I won't), let me set up a Zone Alarm (TM).

A few telling ponts I have noticed over the months:

-Who goes fishing in a smallish aluminum boat on Christmas Eve?

-Who goes fishing on Christmas Eve when he has an expectant wife at home?

-He bought fishing tackle *to use* on that excursion, yet it was the wrong type and the packages were unopened.

-It just so happens that the mother and child's body washes up about 2 miles from where he ADMITS he was fishing.

-He was seen in the area multiple times after his initial *fishing trip* there.

-He is found close to the Mexican border with a lot of cash, bleached hair and a goatee.

There are many more bizarre inexplicable items/incidents/reports, this list is extensive.

Everything about that man screamed GUILTY!!! Slimeball...I hope that he gets a nice painful welcome at the prison

Alrighty .... *** putting on flame retardant suit ****

Truthfully IF Peterson is guilty, he deserves the death penalty.

The problem that I have with this whole thing is that he was convicted on solely circumstantial evidence. There were no eye witnesses, no DNA evidence, no money trail. Even motive was somewhat questionable.

My concern is that Mr. Peterson was really convicted because of his affair with Amber and his overall cavalier attitude as opposed to any real solid evidence.

Judging from the press releases on the case, the investigating officers appeared to focus in only on Peterson and have discounted any other possibility. I find this unsettling, if for no other reason than if he is innocent – the person who actually did do this crime is still out there and someone else will die because of it.

When so many people (many on death row) have recently been cleared of their crimes due to DNA evidence introduced or the finding of prosecutorial mismanagement or outright with holding of evidence that would clear a suspect – I feel uneasy celebrating the conviction of this person.


**** Covers Head – waits for flames *****

Rose, that's basically how I feel.

Here is a link that may give you more information rose

http://www.courttv.com/trials/peterson/evidence3/index.html

here are a few things that might ease your mind then.

The day before he went fishing he made 3 concrete anchors....the kind of boat he had didn't even need one....where are they?

The asshat was screwing around on his preganant wife and making plans to go away with his girlfriend.

When arrested he had camping gear...15 grand in his glove compartment and 2k cash on him.....he dyed his hair and beard as well....Innocent people don't run and hide.

the bitch probably deserved it, and the bottom of SF Bay was probably too good for her and her unborn child, and where the fuck was the evidence, and the American judicial system has always been aligned against CA white boys who think that their shit doesn't stink, and where is Rodney King when you need him...

oh... never mind

One more rat down the rat-hole...

I guess its all good.

- Ace

I dunno a thing about this case, but this is in response to Rose's post above.

That's the primary reason that I don't particularly agree with capital punishment in general. It's relatively easy to overturn a wrongful conviction and let someone out of jail. It's kinda tricky to overturn a wrongful conviction and undo an execution.

Wow... that's some pretty damning circumstantial evidence, though.

Actually, there is only one concrete anchor that is unaccounted for - but I buy your argument on this point because it would only take one to hold a person of her weight down.

A lot of men screw around on their preganant wives and don't murder them. They tell really big lies about it too. Did this prove the guy was an asshat? Absolutely. But it's only circumstantial as it applies to the murder in explaining motive. There are a lot of people that I have motive to murder.... But they are still alive.... Really.

The fact that he was disguised and had cash and camping gear does not necessarily mean he was running. The press was hounding him, his family, Lacy's family and anybody associated with the whole thing to no end. I'd run from the press too. And if I was innocent but thought I was going to get convicted anyway - I'd probably run from the law as well.

People do and say stupid and strange things all the time. It dosen't mean that they've murdered someone.

I think that it is very unfortunate that the media has so extensively reported this case pre-trial. People will crawl out of the wood work and tell all sorts of lies just to have their precious 15 minutes of fame. I also think that when the media does this, it puts enormous pressure on the police and prosecutor to quickly produce a suspect - whether they are innocent or not does not matter. At this point, with this kind of public pressure - somebody has to pay, innocent or not.

Again - I'm not saying one way or another whether Peterson is guilty or innocent. And I'm not saying that the guy hasn't been proved to be an asshat. I'm just saying that without hard (DNA, Fingerprints, eyewitness) evidence, I'm not convinced that he's guilty of murder.

Yes I agree - I no longer support capital punishment for exactly those reasons. I'm not a bleeding heart (well maybe a little), but it haunts me when I think about how many innocent people we might have executed who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and were the wrong color.

Locked away in San Quentin til he dies.

I too am against the death penalty for the same reasons others have stated.


Some of it may be circumstantial, well hell, a lot of it, let's face it, there's a ton. However, it wasn't all circumstantial, unless all 12 jurors are seeing a completely different picture than those who are not convinced he did it. Those folks have been privy to more than we have heard. As in most cases, eventually we will probably all know nearly every detail.

Wouldn't it cross your mind that disguising yourself after your wife and unborn child disappeared, with lots of cash and with an impending storm brewing over your head is a really, really bad idea?

Edit to append last paragraph.

Justice was served. On a slightly different note, isn't it about time those damn Ramseys got what is coming to them?

I am against the death penalty in these kinds of cases -- all circumstantial stuff. I think when the DNA conclusively links someone to a murder, it's caught on surveillance video or there are more than one eyewitness... yes... kill them.

I had the same reaction to the verdict today as Rose did, although I personally believe him to be guilty. I don't think the prosecution proved their case beyond a shadow of doubt, though. But the jury did, so that's what matters.

I think it strange that two jurors were dismissed and as soon as the "new" jury got together, they came to this conclusion so quickly. The conspiracy part of me sees a judge that wanted to see Peterson found guilty, so much so that he would dismiss people in the jury that would prevent that verdict from being handed down.

I just have to say, that there was Laci's hair found in pliers that was on the boat. Supposedly, according to scott, noone knew about his boat purchase. So, how did laci's hair get in those pliers?? on the boat??? That is not circumstantial. That places Laci on the boat, where scott claims she had never been. Now, I know some of you may argue that they were married and her hair could be everywhere, on his clothes or whatever, but basically this case was decided on "common sense".

Plus, I have to add...I do live in CA and lets just say very very close to Modesto. I went to the 1st candlelight vigil among 1000's of others. Everyone but a few were sad (not all crying) but were not smiling. The family and close friends sat on stage. Alot of us were wondering where Scott was. He finally showed up late. He went over to where a couple of other guys were (I think they were his friends). He was smiling and greeting them like it was a party. He was given a candle and as the speaker talking, everyone was quiet. I couldn't help but look over at Scott and there he was smiling. Afterwards when everyone started to socialize and express their hopes in finding Laci, you can hear loud laughing. I looked and it was Scott and about 5 or 6 other idiots, just laughing and having a great time like it was a party. I know this doesn't prove that he killed her but that was when I very first got the eery feeling he was not missing his wife and unborn child.

I had only come to find out later after reading the phone records between Amber Frey and Scott that the reason he was late was because he was on the phone with her telling her that he was out of country. (Things that make you go hmmmm).


As far as I'm concerned all the circumstantial evidence put together "common sense theory" without a doubt, I believe he is soooooooo guilty. With that being said, I do however, agree that because he was slick enough to plan this out to where there was no physical evidence (other than laci's hair in the pliers), he should be sentence to life without the possibility of parole. Also, if he goes to San Quentin, lol....He will be begging to be put on death row anyways.


Huggerz,
MJ

I don't think he'll get the death penalty anyway, it doesn't seem that it gets handed out too much in Cali.

I have no worries though...most people in prision have no love for people like Scott. He'll get what's coming to him, and IMHO justice will be served much better by the prisioners than a lethal injection.

He was tried and convicted by a jury of his pears who saw ALL of the evidence and ALL believe he is a murderer. Time for debating this is over. He is a convicted MURDERER folks. Nuf said!