The Verdict's In! Scott Peterson Verdict Due at 4PM EST- Page 2

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:15pm

Yep, CourtTV says guilty.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:15pm

Holy SH*T.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:15pm

YAAAAAAY GUILTY!!!!! May Lacy and her baby rest in Peace =*(

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:16pm

Wow. Wow. 1st degree!

[ckeaton]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:16pm

Really!!! Super!
We got something right...

Now he can experience hell on earth before he sees the real thing!

[sweetiedarlinmia]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:17pm

Justice has been served!

[Bobby457]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:17pm

Too bad he doesnt live in Texas!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:17pm

Wow. How can he be convicted of 1st degree for lacy and 2nd degree for Connor? how does that work??

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:18pm

Justice!

[ckeaton]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:18pm

Maybe he didn't "plan" on killing the son to them. The intent was to off poor Laci.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:19pm

I agree, ckeaton. His intent was to kill the wife. The baby was incidental.

[Bobby457]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:20pm

Because he ploted to kill Lacy....The baby was a bystander.

Same thing happened to my neighbor in AZ....her husband shot in the head during an argument...that wasnt premeditated....he turn and shot his 5 yr old daughter in the top of the head (when asked why he said, Because she could tell someone) that was premeditated

[ckeaton]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:21pm

That could be even grosser than this.

[Bobby457]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:24pm

He got 1st degree for his daughter and 2nd degree for his wife....he now sits on Death Row in AZ and has been there for 17 years....not sure what kind of justice THAT is

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:31pm

I'm kind of surprised that he was convicted of 1st degree murder given the lack of physical evidence. No cause of death. No murder weapon. No eyewitness. I'm not sure if I was on the jury that I could have found him guilty in the 1st degree.

Updated On: 11/12/04 at 04:31 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:33pm

As long as the jury can establish that he had planned to kill her, then it wasn't a crime of passion, which would have been murder 2. His M.O. is irrelevant.

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:37pm

Exactly TAT. But without physical evidence or an eyewitness, how do you establish that it was pre-meditated?

Updated On: 11/12/04 at 04:37 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:39pm

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it could be established through his taped conversations with Amber, and the prosecution(which did a crap job, but anyway...) worked at establishing a motive of killing to be with Amber/getting out of father duty, etc.

What type of physical evidence did you have in mind?

Edit: An eyewitness to the murder, or a witness who can testify that Peterson told him/her that he was planning on killing someone? An eyewitness to the actual murder wouldn't necessarily be conclusive, but an eyewitness who can prove the *planned and deliberate* portion would be useful.

Updated On: 11/12/04 at 04:39 PM

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:40pm

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that I think he's innocent. I just don't know, given the lack of hard evidence, that I could have found him guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, of 1st degree murder.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:42pm

No I know. I like engaging in this because I'm a criminology major and pre-law so I salivate for discussions like this.

I'm not too sure how the prosecution put Murder 1 on the table in the first place. Lemme look it up.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:43pm

unfortunately after seeing this picture, the state got confused and executed ben affleck. reached on the set of the bourne dependency matt damon was said to have breathed a sigh of relief and offered to buy beers for the entire cast and crew.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:44pm

*snort*

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:51pm

Mwahahahahahaha!!!! Funny one Papa.

Ok... he's having an adulterous affair with Amber. (Apparently just one of many.) And he doesn't want to assume the responsibility of being a father. What I still don't get is why he would have chosen to go to the extreme of killing Lacey, rather than just leaving her. I mean I can understand a crime of passion; someone killing someone in the heat of anger. And I can even understand, to some degree, why a serial killer kills. But what I don't understand is why, in this day and age, a man in his position would choose murder over divorce.

Updated On: 11/12/04 at 04:51 PM

[ckeaton]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 5:03pm

tiff, I love it when you talk all legal-like.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/12/04 at 5:05pm

curtain, i don't think anyone can ever really understand why someone commits murder. sure you can explain crimes of passion and such, but even if scott were to give a detailed powerpoint presentation of the thinking behind the killing, i'm pretty sure we'd all sit there afterwards and go, "huh?" sure much of it would be rational, but there'd always be that one point where he stops and says, "and so now i have to kill her," where we'd all stop and start twirling a finger at our temples in the universal technical demonstration understood to mean, "yep, he's batsh*t crazy."