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Scott and Laci Peterson Case Update

Here is a report from today's hearing in the Scott Peterson case:

Prosecution Must Turn Over Taped Conversations to the Defense

A judge today ordered prosecutors to turn over to Scott Peterson's attorneys records of wiretapped conversations between the accused wife killer and his previous attorney, as ABCNEWS learned that investigators believe Peterson had more than one affair during his marriage.

The judge also set a preliminary hearing, when the prosecution will have to lay out its case against Peterson, for July 15. Both the prosecution and Peterson's lawyers said they want all the evidence in the case to remain sealed, as both sides are continuing to investigate what happened to Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared on Christmas Eve.

Girolami ordered the prosecution to turn over records of 69 telephone conversations police taped between Peterson and his previous attorney.

Didn't these cops ever hear of minimization? Was anybody monitoring these tapes as the conversations were being recorded?

Amber Frey's tapes will also be turned over. She secretly taped Scott after his wife disappeared. A Sacremento news station, KOVR-TV, reports that Scott has continued to write Frey from jail.

No decision was made on change of venue or on the sealing of autopsy reports and search warrants.

Update: corrected to show lack of ruling on document sealing. CNN reports:

Judge Al Girolami did not, however, rule on a request by California newspapers to release autopsy reports, the arrest warrant, a search warrant and the affidavits that accompany them -- and he suggested he might impose a gag order on participants in the case.

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