Prosecution told to turn over evidence
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10:49 a.m., PST: REDWOOD CITY -- A judge has ordered prosecutors to immediately turn over information that should have been provided to Scott Peterson's lawyers already.

In court this morning, defense attorney Mark Geragos complained that prosecutors just recently gave him thousands of pages of information about several tests, the results of which could clear Peterson.

He said the tests included examinations of what appeared to be blood spots in Scott Peterson's boat. The results showed the spots weren't blood, Geragos said.

With hearings already under way in the double-murder trial, the delay in receiving the information makes it difficult for defense lawyers to thoroughly digest everything, Geragos said. Prosecutors admitted there was a lag, but said most of the tests weren't connected to the case.

Judge Alfred Delucchi, however, ordered prosecutors to turn over everything immediately. He said if they do not to so to Geragos' satisfaction, he will set a deadline by which everything must be turned over or the prosecutors won't be allowed to use it as evidence at trial. In court cases, lawyers on both sides are obligated to turn over to the other any information they plan to use at trial. The process is called "discovery."

Posted on 02/18/04 10:55:00
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Updated at 12:20 p.m. PST 2/18/04

REDWOOD CITY - Hair taken off duct tape found on Laci Peterson's decomposed remains does not match her husband's, his defense attorney said in court today while relaying a series of allegedly new information contained in prosecution documents turned over Tuesday to the defense.

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Peterson judge considers whether police monitored privileged calls

By Brian Anderson

CONTRA COSTA TIMES

REDWOOD CITY - Defense lawyers for Scott Peterson met privately with prosecutors for about five minutes this afternoon after a nearly two-hour closed-door hearing on secretly tapped phone calls.

Mark Geragos has asked Judge Delucchi to review calls between Peterson and a lawyer that had been monitored by investigators looking into the disappearance of Laci Peterson.

Geragos said in court papers that officials might have violated attorney-client privileges in recording the calls. State law bars authorities from listening into conversations between attorneys and their clients.

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