| LACI & CONNER FOREVER IN BRENT'S HEART |
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| SCOTT PETERSON TRIAL PENALTY PHASE LACI PETERSON'S BROTHER TESTIFIED November 30, 2004 |
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| "I've never heard her more excited than the day she called me to tell me she was pregnant. She was going to be a great mother." Brent Rocha |
| BRENT ROCHA
Laci Peterson's brother IMPACT STATEMENT & QUOTES It's difficult, Scott, to get up here and speak to you of what you've done, you know. It's not an easy thing to do, to actually confront the killer of Laci. I mean everything that you have put us t hrough and our family, your family; I mean you just can't even begin to understand what's gone on behind the scenes. You've been sheltered in your jail cell. You just -- you have no idea of what we've gone through. Laci and Conner are the true victims here, but you've also caused a lot of other people a significant amount of pain. It's also difficult to be up here to talk to you because I don't know how much you understand, or how much you comprehend, what emotional level you have, or how much feeling you can have, but I'm going to do it anyway, even though it may not -- it might bounce right off of you.Maybe this act of your arrogance and confidence is a coping mechanism, but at some point in time you're going to have to face reality for what you've done. Of course I wonder, like everyone else, why you chose to kill. Surely now that you have been convicted and are as soon to be sentenced to death, I would hope thatyou regret the choices that you made. Maybe you don't. But what I don't understand is how do you not know that's not right to take someone else's life? Why did y ou have to kill? I mean, did you really hate Laci and Conner that much? Or did you dislike yourself? You know, we all wonder why you did this because I think, for the most part, we all loved you like a member of the family. And like your family and my family, maybe all the members of your family, we were just shocked that you could have done what you've done. Although you've committed this crime, you still go on as if nothing's happened, joke and laugh behind the scenes in your jail cell. The only thing that I could say that we saw something negative about you is you thought you were better than everyone else. Even when Rose and I would come down and visit you and Laci, you always had this arrogance about you or you thought you were more entitled to more privileges . I never would have thought that would have led to murder or anything like that. But I wonder, I mean, why did you feel you were better than everyone else? As you said it yourself, you thought you were smarter than 70 percent of the other population -- members of the population. I don't know, is it because your parents gave you money, you had a good golf game? I can't really think of what else you might be better at, other than those two things, but my personal take is that you just used the persona of a rich kid to make yourself feel better. I mean, you never really got a chance to know yourself and let people like you for who you are other than for your money. JACKIE PETERSON: Brent, that isn't true at all. BRENT ROCHA: It had to be for selfish reasons that you killed Laci and Conner. You did it so your life would not be changed, your persona of the rich kid would still be intact. You knew you were living beyond your means. You didn't have the mental strength to support your family. Your dual life would have been over if Conner came into the picture. We sat in the pool, your pool, in the summer of 2002, and you talked to me about not doing good in your job, turning 30 years old, got a baby on the way. I mean, you were down. I mean, it was quite obvious. I testified to that, and you shook your head as if I was lying. LEE PETERSON: You're a liar. BRENT: I know what the truth is, and you're denying that. THE COURT: Excuse me. If there's any -- I don't care who you are, if you interrupt the proceedings, you're going to be removed from the courtroom, all right? You're welcome to be here. I have your letter, I'm going to make it part of the probation report. I will not tolerate anybody calling out in the audience, I don't care who you are. So be advised, the next one who opens their mouth is going to be removed from the courtroom. Period. Go ahead. BRENT: Between you and me you know it was the truth. We were in that pool together. We know what took place. |
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"She had trouble getting pregnant, so she was thrilled when she did." "I'm the boring one; she was the lively one. It was real entertaining to go see her." "'We went to a Farmer's Market and tasted wine and did different things I wasn't accustomed to.She was full of life, doing neat things and kind of teaching me a lot." "It was so gentle and so precious the way she would hold him. … She was just a kind person, a good-hearted person. She was going to be a great mother." — recalling his sister holding his newborn son . "She was in our labor and delivery room when Antonio was born. You can see her learning and expecting what she might go through. She was going to be a great mother." "My kids won't have cousins. She was my only full sibling" "We always talked about, when we were growing up, it would be nice to have kids at the same time so we could stay close as a family, and our kids could grow up together. I could send them to her house over Summer break and she could send hers to me." "When we say she was the centerpiece of the family, we're not overly exaggerating. She was the one who brought the family together. She was the life of the holidays." "I don't think we've celebrated a holiday. We do it for the kids" "When I got married, she stood up and gave a speech and welcomed my wife into our family. She was so kind and genuine" |
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