Prosecution Rests in Scott Peterson Murder Case
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - Accused murderer Scott  Peterson appeared ready to flee to Mexico when the bodies of  his wife and unborn son washed out of San Francisco Bay, a  police detective testified as the trial prosecution rested.
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(CBS/AP) Scott Peterson&#39;s defense attorneys now get their chance to state why the former fertilizer salesman should not be found guilty of murdering his wife and unborn son.
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Defense attorneys apparently are looking further into secret telephone recordings of conversations between Scott Peterson and his former lover, while the double-murder case remains adjourned until Monday.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s defense lawyers rested their case Tuesday without calling him to the stand. Judge Alfred A. Delucchi told jurors the prosecution would call eight rebuttal witnesses Wednesday.
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Prosecutors in Scott Peterson's murder trial sought Tuesday to counter defense claims that police were so eager to charge their client with his wife's killing that they ignored other credible tips.
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The penalty phase of Scott Peterson&#39;s double-murder trial was delayed yet again today while lawyers and the judge in the case met behind closed doors with a man and his attorney.
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Hopes for an imminent verdict in the murder trial of Scott Peterson faded today as the jury relayed a message to the judge indicating that they remembered little, if anything, of what transpired during the lengthy trial.
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Hatred for Scott Peterson is not enough to convict the man for the murders of his pregnant wife and the fetus she carried, Peterson&#39;s defense attorney told jurors during his closing arguments Tuesday.
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Defense attorney Mark Geragos leaves the San Mateo County Courthouse in Redwood City on Tuesday, October 26, 2004, during the trial of Scott Peterson.
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The jury in the murder trial of Scott Peterson, charged in the killings of his wife, Laci, and their unborn child, settled in Monday to hear again from the
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Scott Peterson's lawyers persisted Wednesday in trying to show that police narrowly focused on their client while ignoring other possible leads in the murder case.
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REDWOOD CITY - In the Scott Peterson murder trial the defense has been trying to explain Peterson&#39;s actions on the day he was arrested.
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The jury in Scott Peterson&#39;s murder trial has reached a verdict in the penalty phase of the case. The verdict will be read at 1:30 PM.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Scott Peterson's murder trial is scheduled to resume today in Redwood City, Calif., as the defense begins presenting its case.    The defense may call experts to say the fetus Laci Peterson was carrying when she disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002 was born full term...
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A prosecution investigator acknowledged Thursday that wiretaps did not capture all of Scott Peterson's telephone calls in the weeks after his pregnant wife vanished.
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(CBS/AP) Scott Peterson&#39;s defense team appealed for a new jury and change of venue in the penalty phase of his high-profile murder case.
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The penalty phase of the Scott Peterson double-murder trial was postponed until next week after the judge on Monday refused a defense request to replace the jury that found Peterson guilty.