| Mon, Feb. 23, 2004 Scott Peterson is a liar who had motive to kill his wife Scott Peterson lied over and over again to police and reporters covering the disappearance of his wife, using strategy and savvy to spin guilt away from himself, a prosecutor said in court papers filed today. Many of Peterson's lies, wrote prosecutor Rick Distaso, revolved around his affair with Amber Frey, a Fresno massage therapist he was dating when Laci Peterson, 27, vanished Dec. 24, 2002. That relationship and his lies surrounding it were sufficient, he said, to "support motive for murder." But it was not the Frey affair alone that Peterson lied about, Distaso wrote. He "had had at least one other affair with a woman early in his and Laci's marriage," court records showed. New details of the case prosecutors are working were revealed in their opposition to a defense motion to bar from trial Peterson's statements to reporters before he was arrested in April. The document unveiled investigators's theory that Peterson was a lying philanderer who held the intent to do away with his wife. They pointed to frequent conflict in interviews he gave to police and those televised in four interviews with broadcast reporters in January 2003. Distaso wrote in the court filing that Peterson lied about a large item wrapped in a blue tarp that he carried from his house, a point he said "support how the defendant covered up the murder." Distaso also said Peterson told ABC's Diane Sawyer that a nursery for Conner, the nearly full-term boy who would have been the couple's first son, would remain unchanged until there was someone to go in there. But police learned it had been converted to a storage room when they served a search warrant on Feb. 18, 2003, Distaso wrote. "Here, some parts of the people's case is circumstantial," Distaso said in the court filing. "Therefore each piece of evidence is important in order for the people to present their case. In his various statements, (Peterson) . . . makes numerous admissions that evidence his guilt." The filing came as Judge Alfred Delucchi met privately with investigators and lawyers about a defense motion to suppress wiretap evidence. Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos said investigators illegally tapped conversations between Peterson and one of his attorneys, an unlawful act that he said poisoned prosecutors' access to hundreds of other calls that investigators had recorded. HOME INDEX LACI SCOTT EVIDENCE-NEWS INCONSISTANT STATEMENTS |
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