Defense says hating Peterson not enough reason to convict
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson&#39;s attorney is set to conclude his closing arguments later this morning. He&#39;ll try to convince the jury his client is a liar and a cheat, but not a murderer.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s lawyer pleaded with the jury Tuesday not to convict Peterson of murder just because prosecutors made him look like a ``jerk and a liar.
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For Richelle Nice and the other jurors in the Scott Peterson trial, the evidence in the case and Peterson&#39;s lack of emotion throughout the course of the six-month trial &quot;spoke for itself.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s fate could be in hands of a California jury by the end of the day. Tuesday, defense attorney Mark Geragos told jurors Peterson shouldn&#39;t be convicted of killing his pregnant wife Laci just
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Prosecutors began closing arguments Monday in the double-murder case against Scott Peterson, telling jurors why they should convict him in the deaths of his pregnant wife and the fetus she carried.
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A California jury has recommended that a man who murdered his wife and their unborn son should be executed. Scott Peterson, 32, reported his wife Laci missing on Christmas Eve, 2002.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson&#39;s fate could be in hands of a California jury by the end of the day. Yesterday, defense attorney Mark Geragos told jurors Peterson shouldn&#39;t be convicted of killing his
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Amber Frey was nothing more than Scott Peterson&#39;s good-time girl, and she knew it, a defense lawyer tried to show Monday during the fertilizer salesman&#39;s double-murder trial in Redwood City.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- A judge today denied a defense motion to dismiss the charges against Scott Peterson, saying the evidence presented so far in his murder trial was enough to justify a conviction if the jury so decides.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s defense suggested at his capital trial Tuesday that police ignored an anonymous tip that a dangerous band of convicts was holding his pregnant wife, Laci, at a remote flophouse.
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Prosecutors began closing arguments Monday in the double-murder case against Scott Peterson, telling jurors why they should convict him in
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Defense attorneys for Scott Peterson have begun their counterattack, starting with a concrete expert whose testimony poked holes in a prosecution theory that Peterson used concrete anchors to weigh down the body of his pregnant wife.
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Prosecutors rested their murder case against Scott Peterson on Tuesday, having presented 174 witnesses trying to convince jurors he was a cheating husband who killed his pregnant wife and lied to police and family alike to try to cover his tracks.
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The State Court of Appeals refused Tuesday to overturn the murder conviction of novelist Michael Peterson, who was found guilty of bludgeoning his wife to death in their home in 2001.
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Modesto Bee. REDWOOD CITY - In a passionate argument, his voice sometimes edged with anger, prosecutor Rick Distaso blasted Scott Peterson on Monday as a calculating killer
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As they prepare to wrap up their murder case against Scott Peterson in the death of his pregnant wife, Laci, even prosecutors have acknowledged that their case has at times left jurors scratching their heads.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Scott Peterson dabbed at his eyes yesterday as his parents took the stand in his defense in an attempt to explain away evidence he tried to flee to Mexico.