Ahhh Gerald, you are confusing common sense and common knowledge with an
American court room... For GPS to be introduced into a capital case there
either has to be a precedent ruling at the appellant level on it's
admissibility (I am unaware of any such ruling), or experts have to be
called to testify so that the judge can rule on admissibility in this
case... This for your and my protections, not just this Scott guy...

Unfortunately, this is a big game of 'gotcha' where each side tries to trip
the other up, not on the basis of scientific fact, but on the basis of, 'you
forgot to say mother may I'... Scott's Lawyers have a good bet going, for
excluding the gps/lo-jacker readouts... Look at the courts recent
revisiting of finger prints because a sharp defense lawyer realized there
never was an appellant level ruling made on the science, in spite of a
hundred years of acceptance by the courts... Look at the humbling of the
FBI forensic lab, whose preeminent expert proved to be a liar and a
charlatan...

OTOH, jurists insistence of ruling on the basis of rulings made a hundred
years ago, in totally different areas of science long since disproved, as
the basis for their current rulings, forms a vast LaBrea tar pit for pilots
accused by an FAA inspector, and is directly why the FAA/DOT can rule
against a pilot and then appeal to themselves if confronted... This ruling
made long ago about the courts deferring to the FAA (CAA in those days), and
long before numerous more recent rulings limiting the power of the
government to avoid judicial revue, continues to allow federal judges to
turn a blind eye to the FAA/DOT's daily violations the constitutional rights
of pilots... And now Secy Ridge continues the 'family tradition', of raping
any innocent who blunders into a TFR.....

Anyway, back to Scott - guilty or not? I suspect that 99% say guilty...
But 99% thought Rep. Condit was guilty in the Chandra Levy case during the
early going, yet the place and manner of the finding of her corpse now makes
his guilt unlikely... And how many convicted rapists are now being found
innocent by DNA typing...
denny

"Gerald Sylvester" wrote in message
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I never read anything about this Scott Petersen murder
trial before. I saw a headline about a "GPS."