The jury already found him guilty for double murder. The question now is: Life sentence or death penalty. Although I have a clear opinion on that question, it is not the main topic of this blog entry.
It is fascinating, if not shocking, how big of a role the media played in the trial so far. Since it was clear that Scott Peterson had an affair, the public was sure that he must have killed his wife Laci and their unborn son on Christmas two years ago. The popular media had no choice than to follow the masses - the public would boycott a neutral TV station or newspaper. During the trial, it was more important to analyze the facial expressions of the accused and the jury during testimonies than to analyze the evidence. Maybe because there was no evidence.
However, this has been and continues to be an almost exclusively emotional trial. Apparently, the thought that he might have killed his beautiful pregnant wife (who was a nice person as described by her family and friends) on Christmas is so bad that no hard evidence is needed. I'm not saying that he is innocent, I'm just wondering how everyone is so sure that he is guilty. Just because he didn't cry during the testimony of Laci's mother?
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