Anybody catch the new release on Netflix about of American Murder -- Laci Peterson?
I was taken back by the similarities between the Peterson and Morphew case!
For example...
Peterson was also granted a change of venue to a small, Prosecution team from San Mateo, and they were clearly no match to celebrity Defense Attorney Mark Geragos.
A Judge was replaced because the team claimed the presiding Judge was biased against them.
Like IE, defense Attorney Mark G pontificates at every possible opportunity.
At trial, defense attacked the investigators-- in an effort to discredit the circumstantial evidence.
Peterson trial also wasn't streamed/televised so trial watchers were dependent on the reporters attending the trial for details.
The first witness (lead detective) told the producers how defense attorney Mark G was actually screaming at him during cross examination to "look at me" when responding to his questions (versus facing the jurors when the witness spoke). He knew Mark was trying to rattle him but still...
As if from IE's playbook, Mark worked his way to mislead the Court and jurors on a Friday afternoon --ending the trial day with misleading information until the next Tuesday when the witness could testify and/or clarify his testimony about his police report under redirect.
Here, the lead detective used an audio recorder to take notes that he used to prepare his official, signed, police report. During discovery, Defense obtained both a transcript of the detective's audio recorder and the written report and compared the two, line by line. During cross examination, Mark accused the lead detective of intentionally failing to disclose information in his signed police report that was beneficial to his client. (A hearsay statement made in his audio was omitted from his written report).
During redirect, four days later, the lead detective clarified that his audio cited a grapevine rumor that Laci may have stopped to use the restroom of a neighbor. But on the same day of his audio record, he learned another detective actually talked to the restroom neighbor and took her statement which he included in his written police report. In other words, it was not hearsay to this detective and this restroom information was shared with the defense on the same date! No brady violation and no info ever withheld from the defense!
Detective told producers cached MSM of his testimony from that Friday continues to repeat the misinformation by Garagos to this date. Sound familiar?
Lastly, I had to laugh at one point when I realized IE and Garagos even walk alike -- they have the same gait when walking to/from the Courthouse! MOO
Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she vanished, sparking a search that ended in tragedy. This docuseries delves into the 2002 murder case.
www.netflix.com
