Peterson judge orders documents preview
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Sharon Rocha, Laci Peterson's mother, and Ron Grantski, her stepfather, enter the courthouse for pretrial motions.
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REDWOOD CITY, California (CNN) -- The judge in the Scott Peterson murder trial ruled Tuesday that he must preview all court filings to determine if they contain sensitive materials that might fall under a protective order.
Judge Alfred A. Delucchi's ruling followed heated remarks by defense attorney Mark Geragos, who was incensed at a prosecution filing Monday alleging Peterson had at least one other affair besides the one he admitted publicly.
"There is something completely wrong with what they did," Geragos said. "It looked like it was out of National Enquirer."
Geragos said the filing, made in response to a defense objection to using Peterson's statements to the press as evidence in the case, was aimed at "polluting the jury pool."
"Seventy percent of what's in there is not true," Geragos said.
Outside the courtroom, Lee Peterson, Scott's father, said the prosecution's entire filing Monday was a lie.
"They've raised lying to a high art and I'm going to get in trouble for [saying] that but I don't give a damn," he said, referring to the protective order that all parties and potential witnesses are under, barring them from discussing the case.
Scott Peterson, 31, a former fertilizer salesman, is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his 27-year-old wife, Laci, and their unborn son.
Their bodies washed up along the shore of San Francisco Bay in April 2003, about 80 miles from the couple's home in Modesto but just miles from Berkeley Marina.
It was there that Scott Peterson told police he was fishing in a boat on December 24, 2002, Christmas Eve, the day Laci was reported missing. She was nearly eight months pregnant.
Peterson pleaded not guilty to the charges. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
In Tuesday's session, Delucchi heard testimony from an expert witness on dog trailing who conducted three searches for Laci Peterson in the days after she disappeared.
Cindee Valentin said that on December 27, 2002, her dog trailed Laci's scent -- picked up from a pair of Laci's sunglasses -- from the Peterson's home to a major boulevard near the house, and then lost it.
The same day, the dog picked up Laci's scent at Scott Peterson's warehouse and followed it to a major boulevard and then to State Route 132.
Valentin said that in another search on January 3, 2003, the dog picked up Laci's scent on State Route 132 and followed it to Interstate 580, a major highway that runs between Berkeley and Tracy, California, about 20 miles west of Modesto.
The dog's response to the scent indicated that the person was traveling in a vehicle, Valentin said.
Peterson defense attorney Pat Harris tried to poke holes in Valentin's testimony, saying that even though the dog sniffed Laci's sunglasses, it could only be assumed the animal was following Laci's scent, and asserting it could have been an old scent.
In court documents filed Monday, the prosecution argued that Peterson repeatedly lied in interviews with three local reporters and one network reporter.
Peterson told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview that he had an affair with massage therapist Amber Frey, but the documents say his contention that his only affair was with Frey is "not true."
The prosecution also said in the documents that Peterson was lying when he told Sawyer that he had told police about the affair with Frey.
"In his various statements to media personnel, the defendant gives statements that conflict with those he told police, initially lies about his relationship with Amber Frey, lies about his relationship with his wife ... and makes numerous admissions that evidence his guilt," the prosecution documents charge.
The prosecution gave no details about the other relationship.
CNN's Erika Snider contributed to this report.
