Word: lacie
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...when she becomes pregnant. The leading cause of death among pregnant women is homicide, and as with domestic violence in general, the killer is most often her husband or partner. Current events bear out this awful truth. The public has heard a great deal about the recent murders of Laci Peterson, Lori Hacking, and their unborn children; Scott Peterson is currently being tried on two counts of murder, and Mark Hacking has already confessed to killing his wife...
...innocent because the prosecution hasn't given us any reason to believe otherwise so far." JUSTIN FALCONER, juror dismissed from the Scott Peterson trial, on whether Peterson is guilty of murdering his wife Laci...
Martha Stewart was back in the legal spotlight last week--at another high-profile trial that has obsessed the media. As Scott Peterson went on trial for the murder of his pregnant wife Laci, the defense scored a surreal but key point by playing a videotape of the TV homemaker. Peterson had said that on the morning the prosecution says he killed Laci, she was watching Stewart talk about meringue. The Modesto, Calif., police department claimed no meringue was mentioned on Stewart's show that morning. But Peterson attorney Mark Geragos, in his opening statement, played the tape and showed...
That was just the first of many early embarrassments for the authorities. Geragos has displayed a talent for getting prosecution witnesses to point out inaccuracies in police reports. While prosecutors were trying to show that Laci was too tired to walk the family dog, as Peterson claims she was going to do the last time he saw her, they also inexplicably pointed out that she was able to go to a salon and a spa and buy about $100 worth of groceries that day. "It's a bit confusing what the prosecution is doing at this point," says former...
...passage last October of a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion, the Senate last week voted, 61 to 38, to make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked in a federal crime. The House, spurred by the killing of Laci Peterson and her unborn son in California more than a year ago, passed the measure in February, and President Bush has promised to sign it. Supporters deny it is linked to abortion, pointing out that 29 states already have unborn-victim laws. "This bill is about simple justice," said Republican...