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Post by happyhaddock on Mar 14, 2007 10:55:13 GMT -5
Dr Peterson theorized without proof that the loop of twine could have forced itself over the baby's head collapsing the plates which then expanded again trapping it there. The baby's arm supposedly also pointed forward, speared another loop of tape, and then folded back into place - after being 4 months dead.
Any woman who has given birth knows how hard it is to force the head through the birth canal which is the only time the plates overlap like that. The force needed would have applied so much pressure that it would have stripped the very soft flesh off the head like stripping the corn off a corn cob. There was no evidence of that.
There is also no way that water movement in the sea could have applied enough force in one direction against the twine while simultaneously applying enough force in the opposite direction against the baby's body. In fact no amount of water pressure could be applied to the twine to do this - not even with a fire hose.
His theory is nonsense.
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Post by Maggie on Mar 26, 2007 7:41:54 GMT -5
On National TV Dr. Wecht claimed the twine could not have tied around the baby's neck as debris "in a million years"... Geragos was a fool, imo, not to put him on the stand.
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Post by happyhaddock on Apr 1, 2007 23:15:09 GMT -5
As for the alternative, that the twine somehow tied itself around the baby's neck in the water, try this. Tie a piece of twine around your fist using a square knot. Now try to find a way to tie the bow on top of it without using your free hand - by attaching one, or both, or neither ends to a fixed surface.
It cannot be done - ask any teacher of the mathematics of knots.
Thus the twine absolutely excludes Scott Peterson from having any involvement in his wife's abduction and the deaths of his wife and child.
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Post by fallonnev on Apr 2, 2007 20:33:12 GMT -5
Perhaps a teacher of the mathematics of knots (whatever that is) can't do so. Any surgeon can in his or her sleep. A sailor would also be a good candidate.
All it takes is practice.
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Post by happyhaddock on Apr 2, 2007 22:38:05 GMT -5
Perhaps a teacher of the mathematics of knots (whatever that is) can't do so. Any surgeon can in his or her sleep. A sailor would also be a good candidate. All it takes is practice. Either can tie a knot without using any tool or their fingers? How? Even magicians can't do that - they have tricks that seem to do it but that's why they call them tricks.
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Post by Maggie on Apr 3, 2007 8:19:39 GMT -5
Perhaps a teacher of the mathematics of knots (whatever that is) can't do so. Any surgeon can in his or her sleep. A sailor would also be a good candidate. All it takes is practice. As somebody who works with surgeons in the OR, I can tell you that they use tools to tie suture knots.
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Post by joon77 on Jun 5, 2007 17:13:42 GMT -5
On National TV Dr. Wecht claimed the twine could not have tied around the baby's neck as debris "in a million years"... Geragos was a fool, imo, not to put him on the stand. I don't think Geragos was wrong not to put him on the stand. I do think, however, that he should have said something at his sentencing. I just think that by putting him on the stand the prosecution would have hammered at him about all of his lies and the Amber tapes (irrelavent imo as they were). They were afraid this would lead to problems with his appeal as I understand it. And given the way the jury and spectators felt about his lack of emotion or "demeanor" it may have swayed the jury even more towards his guilt considering that's what they ended up convicting him on anyway-demeanor and attitude. At least by keeping him off the stand they can't use anything he may have said that was considered off key against him in the future.
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