Updated at 11:59 a.m. PST

REDWOOD CITY - Despite technical glitches, data from satellite devices that
tracked Scott Peterson's vehicles are largely accurate, a prosecution
witness testified today.
Hugh Roddis is president of Orion Electronics Ltd., the company that
provided the tracking devices to Modesto police.

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Updated at 2:00 p.m. PST

A satellite tracking expert this morning repeatedly resisted suggestions
that Modesto police botched part of the investigation into Laci Peterson's
disappearance by incorrectly positioning a small tracking antenna on one of
her husband's vehicles.

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Updated at 3:58 p.m. PST

REDWOOD CITY - Evidence from satellite tracking devices covertly placed on
Scott Peterson's vehicles will be allowed at his trial on double murder
charges, but prosecutors will have to tell the defense where police placed
the units, a judge ruled today.

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Updated at 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.

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Updated at 12:20 p.m. PST

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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Updated at 10:56 a.m., PST

REDWOOD CITY - Attorneys for both sides in the Scott Peterson case continued
to meet behind closed doors with Judge Alfred Delucchi this morning.

Closed-door talks, about evidence gathered from wiretaps of Peterson's
phones, began just before noon Wednesday, when Delucchi left the courtroom
to listen to recordings of some of the calls police monitored. The private
meetings continued Wednesday afternoon.

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Updated at 11:52 a.m., PST

REDWOOD CITY - Two detectives who helped monitor wiretaps on Scott
Peterson's telephones emerged this morning without comment from private
meetings with a judge and attorneys on both sides of the double-murder case.

Steve Hoek and Jesse Tovar, Stanislaus County sheriff's detectives, were
among up to 15 officers who listened to more than 3,000 of Peterson's calls
before his April arrest.

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Judge refuses to force another judge to testify

Updated at 10:30 a.m., PST

REDWOOD CITY - The judge in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial this
morning refused to force another judge to testify about wiretap warrants
issued for the defendant's telephones.
Judge Alfred Delucchi said, "The court is satisfied that to require Judge
(Wray) Ladine to testify would be contrary to public policy."

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Updated at 3:46 p.m., PST

SAN MATEO - A cadaver dog picked up Laci Peterson's scent in a shed behind
her Modesto home on Dec. 27, 2002 - three days after the 27-year-old
pregnant substitute teacher was reported missing, the dog's handler
testified this afternoon.

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Updated at 1:20 p.m., PST

REDWOOD CITY -- A wiretap expert who once helped prosecutors in Scott
Peterson's double-murder case apparently is testifying for his defense
behind closed doors today.

Kevin Clements of Nebraska-based Pen-Link Ltd. in June helped investigators
uncover recordings of 176 of Peterson's telephone calls - recordings that
authorities initially didn't know they had.

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Updated at 10:35 a.m., PST

REDWOOD CITY -- Jurors in Scott Peterson's trial will hear evidence from
wiretaps but only part of evidence from tracking dogs, a judge ruled this
morning.

Defense lawyers had argued that investigators violated Peterson's
attorney-client privilege when they listened to bits of conversations with
his first attorney, Kirk McAllister.

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By SUSAN HERENDEEN and GARTH STAPLEY
BEE STAFF WRITERS

Last Updated: March 2, 2004, 01:41:00 PM PST

1:40 p.m. PST: REDWOOD CITY - A jury will get to hear about a dog that picked up Laci Peterson’s scent at the Berkeley Marina, and prosecutors will be able to introduce evidence collected from wiretaps on Scott Peterson’s phone, a judge ruled Tuesday.
But Judge Al Delucchi will wait until Monday to decide if prosecutors can show the jury four television interviews Scott Peterson gave before he was arrested and charged with murdering his wife and unborn son.

The judge said he was disappointed that he couldn’t get all of the pretrial rulings out of the way before jury selection begins Thursday

“Let’s tidy this up and not waste the jurors' time,” Delucchi said.

Scott Peterson’s father, Lee Peterson, said after the court session that the rulings were “pretty much what we expected. There was nothing damaging.” The victim’s family, including her mother, brother and stepfather, smiled as they chatted with prosecutors while leaving the courtroom.

The dog-tracking and phone-bugging rulings give a boost to prosecutors, who contend that Peterson killed his wife in their Covena Avenue home on Christmas Eve 2002, concealed her body in large umbrellas so he could transport her to a warehouse where he kept his fishing boat, then dumped her body in San Francisco Bay.

Defense attorney Mark Geragos had a dog-tracking expert waiting in the wings, prepared to testify, but never called him to the stand.

Instead, he argued passionately against the dog-tracking evidence, saying it is “complete voodoo” that California appeals courts have upheld only three times.

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