| December 2, 2004 Joan Pernicano, a family friend and former neighbor when Scott was aged three until about eight, said her son was in Cub Scouts with Peterson. She said she couldn’t square what she knew of him with the image of him as a killer. “I can’t reconcile the accusations with the person that I’ve known,” “It just doesn’t go together.” Pernicano also said she was concerned with the toll a death sentence would exact on Peterson’s mother, Jackie. “I’ve watched her health deteriorate,” Pernicano said. Pernicano said. “I've known Jackie 25 years. It’s been a slow progression, with the last two years, the stress as a mother. ... I try to put myself in her position, and I can’t. It’s so horrible. I’m concerned for her health.” "To know Jackie is to love Jackie." she said. "We discovered we both went to the same Catholic Girls High School in San Diego. Our brothers went to the Catholic boy's School. The people we knew, there were a lot of similarities." As neighbors they visited the Peterson's home. "Calm, easy going. My home was a little chaotic and boisterous. Jackie was organized. They got along." As for Scott, she described him as a child, "Very even, calm, different from my son who was rambunctious." As a family they did "lots and losts of golfing". She stated she kept in contact with Jackie after the Peterson's moved. She remembers Jackie telling her that Scott wanted to "pay his own way". "He went to work in a restaurant and people loved him and he got big tips." She did acknowledge that most of the time she saw Scott was between the ages of three to eight or nine. Juror 11, a woman who subtly acknowledged Sharon Rocha after the jurors had delivered a guilty verdict, pursed her lips and turned away from Pernicano for several moments when the witness questioned the charges. HOME INDEX LACI FAMILY TRIAL VERDICT ALIBI-WITNESS LIST |
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