Motive Vs. Evidence: The Scott Peterson Case

The book that I am going to introduce is Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Got Away With Murder, written by Vincent Bugliosi, and was published on June 17, 1996. We all know that Nichole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death and their bodies were discovered on June 12, 1994 early morning. It was said that after a car chase, O.J. was found with $9,000 I cash, his passport, disguise, and a gun. O.J. Simpson who is her ex-husband was acquitted October 3, 1995, for their deaths in a trial that riveted the nation and divided people along racial differences. In 1997, he was ordered to pay a little over $33 million for their deaths. O.J. Simpson is still serving time in prison for things like kidnapping, robbery, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, and numerous other charges. Mr. Bugliosi sums up five reason why the case was lost. Those five can be labeled as the jury, the change in venue or settings, the judge allowing the defense to play the race card, the stupidity of the prosecution throughout the trial, and lastly the summation of what should really have been done. But in honesty when the media started reporting about this case it was already falling apart.

Scott had several affairs and the last one was with an Amber Frey. Scott told Amber weeks before Laci went missing that he had “lost his wife” and that he would be spending his first Christmas without her on December 9th, 2002. This meant that Scott planned to kill Laci long before her disappearance. Amber Frey agreed to let police tape her phone conversations with Peterson, hoping he’d confess to Laci’s murder.

Christmas Eve of 2002, husband, Scott Peterson calls in his wife’s disappearance. His wife, Laci, was eight months pregnant. Four months after the disappearance, the remains of Laci and Conner were found a day apart washed up on the shore of Point Isabel State Park. The bodies were found a day apart. Scott was convicted of the murder of his wife and his unborn baby, but I am convinced that Scott should be walking the streets a free man. I believe he did not murder his expecting wife—his actions were justified by his shock, he was simply enjoying his last month of “non-daddy” freedom, and I think Scott was framed by Laci.

During the year of 2015, a case that the Innocence Project was working on at the time was the Joseph Buffey Case. Joseph Buffey was convicted in 2001 in West Virginia of rape and robbery. Mr. Buffey pled guilty to the crimes based on the advise of his counsel and witness misidentification which was the heart of this investigation. On May 11, 2015, Mr. Buffey was excluded by DNA and the real perpetrator was later found. Mr. Buffey served a total of 15 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. DNA Exonerations makes up 334 total cases that the Innocence Project has worked on. The following numbers overlap with the 334 cases. 237 cases involved misidentification by witnesses, 154 were the result of improper forensics, 92 were due to

Scott Peterson (Scott Lee Peterson) 30, Laci Peterson's husband of more than 5 years at

The Scott and Laci Peterson case has much evidence that places Scott rightfully behind bars for the murders of his wife, Laci, and his unborn child, Connor. Scott Peterson refused to take a polygraph (lie detector test) for questioning about his wife’s disappearance, which was rare for someone who would want to find a loved one or be concerned about them. Tracking dogs traced Laci’s scent in areas suggesting that she had left in a vehicle, and had at one point been in her husband’s boat. Scott had told a former mistress he never intended to have children, and his mother told her son to deny everything when being questioned, according to CNN web sources. However according to Hollywoodinvetegator .com, “no medical examiner was able to determine the cause of Laci Peterson's death”. This source also stated that there was no crime scene, no weapon or object used to commit the murder, and no witnesses. The only forensic evidence that linked Scott Peterson to the murder of his wife was a strand of hair that DNA analysis showed to be Laci's, found in a pliers in Scott’s boat. In other words, Scott Peterson was convicted for a murder based of a mere confession after

The Dred Scott case was a large part of the Debates of 1858. This was a case about a slave named Dred Scott who lived in a free state (slavery was prohibited) but was not entitled to his freedom. The Dred Scott decision was that blacks could not sue in the U.S courts and that congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the west. Lincoln was opposed to the Dred Scott decision and would not submit to it because it “deprives the negro of the rights and privileges of citizenship.” (book). He openly criticized the decision and stated that blacks were entitled to the same freedom whites have. He did use this opportunity to endorse his colonization idea though. Douglas’s view on this case was a bit different. Douglas supported the Dred Scott decision but advocated popular sovereignty which contradicted one another. Douglas responded to accusations of this contradiction by reformulating his popular sovereignty idea. His reformulation became known as the Freeport Doctrine which stated that settlers would exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation. What he meant is that even if territorial governments supported the supreme court decision in the case of Dred Scott and did not prohibit slavery, municipalities could still do so by failing to support government. In the first debate on August 12th Douglas supported his supporting of the Dred Scott case with this statement: “I ask you, are you in favor of conferring upon the negro the rights and

knowing he was already married. Laci Peterson later on did find out about Scott cheating on her

10:58pm Allan Park sees a shadowy figure. When asked to describe this figure, he says the person was about 6 feet tall and approximately 200 pounds walking across the driveway towards the house.

Not every DWI (driving while intoxicated) case ends the same, some have different verdicts in the courtroom. The Ethan Couch case is a great example of why punishing drunk drivers should be more enforced and not so lenient. The teen from Texas was driving drunk with two other passengers in his pickup truck on June of 2013, when he hit and killed four people. Ethan Couch was tried as a juvenile and charged with four counts of Intoxication Manslaughter, but was only sentenced to ten years of probation. His lawyers argued that it was due to “affluenza”, which means that he came from a wealthy family and it prevented him from understanding what was right from wrong, so he was not held accountable for his actions. The judge who took on this case

In 2007, Hart was charged with first degree murder and found guilty by a jury. However, an appeal was granted and the case was later presented

The New York Times bestseller book titled Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case examines the O.J. Simpson criminal trial of the mid-1990s. The author, Alan M. Dershowitz, relates the Simpson case to the broad functions and perspectives of the American criminal justice system as a whole. A Harvard law school teacher at the time and one of the most renowned legal minds in the country, Dershowitz served as one of O.J. Simpson’s twelve defense lawyers during the trial. Dershowitz utilizes the Simpson case to illustrate how today’s criminal justice system operates and relates it to the misperceptions of the public. Many outside spectators of the case firmly believed that Simpson committed the

Motive is a reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.

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Evidence is defined as any matter of fact, the effect, tendency, or design of which is to produce in the mind a persuasion, affirmative or disaffirmative, of the existence of some other matter of fact that a crime has been committed.(Paul B. Watson, 1986) In a legal sense, evidence is the information presented in court during a trial which enables the judge and jury to decide a particular case (Garland & Stuckey, 2000). There are two main types of evidence, which are testimony and physical items which can be presented to the judge and jury during a criminal trial. Physical evidence is any evidence found at the perpetrator’s