http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/06/13708473-ex-cop-drew-peterson-found-guilty-of-murdering-wife-kathleen-savio?lite
G-U-I-L-T-Y, guilty guilty guilty, hooray!
G-U-I-L-T-Y, guilty guilty guilty, hooray!
Nystyle709 wrote:I haven't followed this trial much and I would often get this mixed up with the Scott Peterson trial but from reading the excerpts of it and the basic facts.....I see that they basically convicted him the same way that convicted Scott Peterson. Circumstantial evidence and hearsay. And emotion. And apparently because of this case, there is some kind of law that would allow "hearsay" evidence admissible in court! Or at least make it a strong factor in such a case. This is a bad precedent. Says a lot about the American justice system when you can go to jail without being PROVEN guilty. In any case, whatever. He prob. did kill her.
Supernova wrote:
They had a body to go on, a body that drowned in a tub that had no water in it. That's not circumstantial, it's a fact that you can't drown in a dry tub.
They didn't prove that HE killed her and put her in a dry bathtub. They couldn't.
Besides, circumstantial evidence and hearsay make up most of any and all evidence that is EVER presented in a trial;
And what makes that right? You must PROVE that somebody did something. You have to have hard evidence. Not some shit that somebody told you or something that you 'theorized'.
very rarely is the prosecutor going to be able to supply a videotape showing the defendant killing their victim.
Nystyle709 wrote:
They don't have to supply a videotape of him killing her....any kind of physical proof....prints, blood, hair, etc...that proves he was at the scene of the crime or if it was present on her body would've been enough to prove that he did it. They dug up that woman's body, what...six yrs later? Figured that she must've been murdered, then gonna say her husband probably murdered her because her sister heard him threatened her before? Sorry. That doesn't cut the mustard. If common sense told you that a person cannot drown in a waterless bathtub, he should've been investigated then. Not some odd years later when the burden of proof would be that much more difficult. Not that it matters anyway. The family got what they wanted.
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