CrimLaw

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News from the Murder Cases:

(1) In the NC Michael Peterson case the prosecutor is having further problems. He played the 911 tape and the Defendant actually cried. It was pointed out that the dispatcher wrote "hysterical" on her notation of the call. Then the prosecutor asked the dispatcher if she could tell if the Defendant was feigning. "Feigning"? Who the heck uses a word like feigning in a jury trial? It just drips of the type of elitism that screams at the jury "I'm above you." the word is faking - FAKING! Other evidence came in showing that the scene wasn't treated initially as a crime scene and that the investigation began the month after they had locked up the Defendant.

(2) Trying to get the court of appeals to recognize a genetic predisposition defense. Personally, I believe in free will but when you're desperate you make whatever argument is at hand.

(3) Never give up. Detectives in Philadelphia have made an arrest in a 1987 murder.

(4) In Detroit they used to jail you if you refused to cooperate in a murder investigation. Under the theory that "[y]ou can't hold girlfriends or cousins just to get other people to turn themselves in, or you're going to pay. We're not set up for KGB justice," Detroit is now being made to pay - dearly.

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