Originally posted by RedTop
RT
I would tend to agree with you on the point of it not being a slam dunk case. My wife and my Mom watched every dang bit of it. I mean ALLLLL of it.
So I got the play by play whether I wanted it or not. The evidence was purely circumstantial. I mean all of it. But MAN was that evidence alot. I think he was guilty as all get out. No doubt by the bits I saw and all.
Still the death penalty was a huge verdict to get to.
I don't think he'll ever get the needle anyway. Those California Latte' sippers barley got the nuts to kill serial killers. 
You might be surprised, RedTop- while California was the first into the permissive liberalism of the 70s-80s, they may be the last out on the current trend of a more conservative society. Give us time.
What a death penalty sentence means in California (as opposed to life without parole) is that Scott Peterson will spend fifteen years, minimum, on death row before his appeal is heard. That means fifteen years in a tiny little cell in the old section of San Quentin, no general population privelages, and if he's lucky his solitary confinement cell will have a view of the very bay he dumped his wife's murdered body into.
Personally I feel justice would be better served if he got life, was released into the general prison population and became Bubba's wife, but this works for me. Give the boy fifteen years to think about what'll happen if his appeal is successful and he's commuted to life without parole- the best that happens is he still ends up married to Bubba.
