| July 15, 2004 Modesto Detective Henry Hendee testified that investigators searched Scott Peterson's warehouse and found one homemade cement weight, and said that they uncovered evidence that Peterson could have made four more. Pictures showed circular patches in the cement dust where the other weights could have been, plus a plastic pitcher that could have been used to mold the weights. At first the weight and the pitcher appeared to match, but later, a cement expert concluded the weight did not come from the pitcher. The prosecution team trying to convict Scott knew this, or should have known about it, but instead Defense Attorney Mark Geragos told the jury. "Why the prosecution let the defense bring this out, one doesn't know," said CBS 5 legal analyst LaDoris Cordell. "Either incompetency or inadequacy." Cordell said the prosecution broke a cardinal rule in litigation: never let the other side introduce testimony that will hurt your case. If you have to, do it yourself. "If you don't do that, and allow the defense to do it, it sounds like ... you've been trying to hide something all along," Cordell said. On another front, the judge is still deciding just how much the jury should get to see of the television interviews of Scott . The prosecution has tapes of the stories that aired, but Geragos either wants the entire interview shown to the jury --- including the portions that did not air -- or none of it. "With those interviews... the prosecution has the best of both worlds," said legal analyst Dean Johnson. "They get to see a cross examination of Scott , and Scott doesn't get to get on the stand and respond to that." HENDEE TESTIMONY AT PRELIM (partial) HOME INDEX LACI TRIAL SCOTT ALIBI-WITNESS LIST EVIDENCE PHOTOS SEARCH DOGS MAGAZINES SCOTT'S SURVIVAL GEAR |
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