Monday, November 15, 2004

Peterson Follow-Up

Brent at Cop Talk has a nice post-mortem:

"He did such a good job that the police and prosecution had no physical evidence at all. There was nothing that could tie him to the murder that the jury could look at or touch. But while Scott worked so hard at denying the jury that physical evidence, he didn't work at making himself appear innocent. His actions, his words and his demeanor all screamed GUILTY!"


Very true. After hearing about the physical evidence, or lack thereof, I would've put my money on a not guilty verdict. One of those where you know he did it but can never prove it situations. As it was, the jury saw through it. If he'd have just shut up: stopped talking to Amber, stopped visiting the crime scene, stopped ordering porn, stopped acting like a smart *ss, and for crying out loud, stopped trying to dye his hair and leave the country under a fake name; then he probably would've gotten off. He was just too cocky for his own good.

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