NEWS: Peterson Guilty, Unconnected Mobs Happy

CULTURE: Peterson Guilty, Unconnected Mobs Happy

After eight hours of deliberation, a jury has found Scott Peterson guilty of first-degree murder for killing his pregnant wife and second degree murder for killing the fetus she was carrying.

I’m always amazed when outside observers celebrate condemnation born from horror, that somehow people who have nothing to do with the people involved can be happy when justice is served, right or wrong. I can understand the relief that washes over a victim’s family when a murderer is removed from society or when a rapist is found guilty. Yet, when people are glad that the television trial that they have been following as a hobby has concluded following an almost scripted narrative, it ceases to become justice and is replaced by the hunger for justice. It goes beyond empathy for the family of a victim, it's a beast of itself.

Why are people happy that one more murderer is in jail or going on Death Row? What will be done to prevent it from happening in the future?

Im taking bets on the Phil Specter and Robert Blake cases, odds are as follows as of Nov. 12:

10:1 Robert Blake guilty.

7:1 Phil Specter is really a woman.

The strangest thing about this case is that the jury foreman, a man who took copious, detailed notes about the case, was just dismissed, was it yesterday? no, two days ago, and the judge instructed the rest of the jury to restart their deliberations. Then, after extended fruitless deliberations before this dismissal, and ostensibly following the judge's order to start over from the beginning, they managed to reach a conclusive guilty verdict in ONE DAY. This speaks to the flaws in our judicial system.

Whether or not he actually was guilty, which I can't begin to comment on, as I don't have the merits of the case at my disposal.

Burn in hell, fucker.

TWO jurors were removed. The Foreperson was then replaced by someone whose son in law owns a restaurant that Laci and Scott Peterson once owned.

You can't make this shit up.

Good, I was afraid of this going to a not guilty veredict

This whole case if fucking bullshit. Doesn't our media have something better to do other then try and make us transfixed on crap like this?

You know how many people are murdered, children raped, and kids kidnapped in my part of Texas every day? All of them barely get a five second blip on the evening news, but some white guy supposedly murders his pregnant white wife and suddenly it's national news? This is fucking bullshit (I am white, too, by the way). Some middle-class house wife dies and it's national news. Whereas some hard worker construction worker from Guadalajara watches three of his kids get run over by a drunken metro bus driver and it's not news worthy?

Our news media is run by Nazi pigs pandering the most useless shit. The only reason this case was made so popular by the news is because 1) a pregnant white middle-class woman was murdered, and 2) it's an easier case to follow because it's a court case and therefore everyone is in one spot so they don't have to work so hard to get the story. They just have to show up with cameras on the court steps and sit around drinking coffee and eating Krispy Kreme donuts until the end of the court session.

Fuckers.

Second degree murder for killing an unborn foetus... think of the implications of that in the future.

This is pretty standard nationwide. Has been for a while. It sort of slipped in under the radar.

I personally have no faith in our judicial system whatsoever anymore. OJ = Aquital, Scott Peterson = Guilty. I just do not understand it. Honestly, I think he was too bad of a liar to have killed his wife. The jury's duty is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, not what they think he did. This case was chock full of doubt. They had no physical evidence, no real motive (all were shot down), no murder weapon, and no crime scene. I normally would have been like.. yah the fucker did it, but after reading about many wrongfully convicted / imprissoned people, it really makes you think a bit harder and longer as to jump to such a conclusion as to say, yeah we think you are guilty because there is no other reasonable explaination or case presented. I mean, judge his character, a liar, an adultor, a sad person, but that does not mean that he killed his wife. Even if jurors felt that yes he did commit this horrible crime, they still should not have come back with a guilty verdict. Their job is to look at what was presented, and conclude that yes he did do this or no he did not do this. And based upon what information they were given (or at least the info we know they were given) it disgusts me to no end that they came back with a guilty verdict. There is too much circumstancial evidence, and not enough physical evidence, and there are so many questions as to whether or not the law enforcement even did their job correctly. Two of the cops lied on the stand, and they ignored almost all leads after they deamed Scott the killer. Sad.

I know a lot of you will disagree, and just conclude that the "Woman killer is getting what he deserves" but ... that .. is bullshit.

I agree... and if they end up putting him to death is will only further the cycle of murder...

you should probably get a dictionary and look up both "nazi" and "pandering".

o yah, not to mention the 3 jurors that were removed, supposedly (2 confirmed by interview on CNN) all of them were saying that he should have been aquited. Both Juror 5's, and I forget the other one. There is a lot going on there too. Maybe the jury was bought .. like in "Runaway Jury".. damn that movie was good. John Cusak is the man. javascript:insertSmilie('');

ahahaha

he is the kind of scum that other criminals ass rape and kill.

I hope he gets both. a lot of ass rape....then his throat slit with a make-shift weapon. like something made out of a sharpened spork.

o yah, not to mention the 3 jurors that were removed, supposedly (2 confirmed by interview on CNN) all of them were saying that he should have been aquited. Both Juror 5's, and I forget the other one. There is a lot going on there too. Maybe the jury was bought .. like in "Runaway Jury".. damn that movie was good. John Cusak is the man. javascript:insertSmilie('');

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Yeah, that definitely caught my attention. It's reassuring, though, that:
1. It wasn't 1st degree murder, so it doesn't exactly establish the foetus as a human being, and
2. I'm sure most of us are pro-CHOICE, and this is certainly not a case of choice. I, for one, am "pro-life" when it comes to murdering pregnant women. It's up to Lacy, not Scott.

yeah, they gotta have some law against it, otherwise someone is bound to walk around stabbing pregnate women in the stomach and screaming "ABORTION RULES!"

I hope the guy gets the worst, for whatever he's done, but what pissed me off is that this trial got so much coverage... I mean, correct me if I'm mistaken but I'm pretty sure people kill their wives and children a lot more often then this... so why is this any different? what gives?

maybe scott peterson is a terrorist.

Oh good. A man is going to prison for a crime that may never have occured.

The police could not figure out when, where, or how Laci died.

I honestly hope he did it. Because he is going to pay either way. Inocent or guilty he is gonna pay. Lets hope he really is guilty.

WHO GIVES A SHIT!?!??! Why is this story taking up space on the front pages of my newspapers and the headlines on my TV news? That's the real story....

isn't there some war going on somewhere?

I don't know. It seems to me like the prosecution was a complete mess, and the evidence was entirely circumstantial. My gut feeling, of course, was "the fucker did it", but I don't think the evidence was there "beyond a reasonable doubt". I think this will get overturned on appeal.

For real