A circumstantial case must be reasonable
October 25, 2004
by David Sween
Suspend reason and it is possible to prove absolutely anything. A competent, criminal investigator, I have exhaustively reviewed the case against Scott Peterson. There is no credible, circumstantial case against Scott Peterson. To build a circumstantial case, you have to connect the dots, but before that is even possible, you have to be able to identify the dots. Look at the diagram. Can you count the black dots? Try harder. If you can't even count the dots, you cannot connect them, and if you pretend to be able to do what is not possible, you will certainly manufacture the current, fickle case against Scott Peterson --a case that makes absolutely no sense at all, under scrutiny. You cannot lay out a circumstantial case against Scott Peterson because the dots are not there to connect. The claim that the black dots are there to be connected is an illusion, it is not a reasonable conclusion. People who know Scott cannot fathom him killing anybody. They are correct.