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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Nov 10 2004, 09:11 PM
My wife has been following it and made me sit through a bunch of the coverage (thank God for the wireless network connection and CalgaryPuck!). From what I have gathered I think the police has been incompetant in their investigation and that they did not look at all the leads. From what I know about the investigation they did not interview several witnesses who claimed to see her alive later in the day she was reported to have disappeared and they ignored many accounts of another potential suspect. They took the easy way out, fingered the husband, and built a case to convict him rather than do the leg work to close off all other avenues of investigation. The police work has been shoddy and Peterson should get off because of that. The prosecution has not been convincing IMO. I also don't like the fact that the judge has removed a juror during deliberations. That's not kosher. I think Peterson has been set up to take the fall and likely will, even though no one has proven that he committed the crime.
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From what I know about the investigation they did not interview several witnesses who claimed to see her alive later in the day she was reported to have disappeared and they ignored many accounts of another potential suspect.
The defence promised to produce said witnesses and failed to do so before closing arguments.
Promising and then failing to deliver are considered by some legal observors of this case to be a blow to the defence.
Still, they really don't have a lot on this guy, even though he appears to be guilty.
Cowperson