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    Scott Peterson Trial Fast Facts

    Here is some background information about the Scott Peterson trial. He was convicted in November 2004 of murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, in 2002. Prosecutors alleged that Scott's motive for the two murders was to escape married life and upcoming fatherhood. Scott Peterson is on death row at San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco.

    Timeline:

    December 24, 2002 - Laci Peterson is initially reported missing from their home in Modesto, California.

    January 24, 2003 -
    Amber Frey, a Fresno massage therapist, comes forward at a police news conference and says she was having an affair with Scott. She says the affair began Nov. 20, after Scott told her he was a single man.

    April 18, 2003 - The California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, confirms bodies found on April 14 on the San Francisco Bay area shore are those of Laci Peterson and her baby.

    April 18, 2003 - Scott Peterson is arrested in San Diego, pending capital murder/double homicide charges, and is held without bail.

    April 21, 2003 - Arraignment in Stanislaus County Superior Court before Judge Nancy Ashley. Scott Peterson is charged with 2 felony counts of murder with premeditation and special circumstances. Peterson pleads not guilty.
    - Under California law, the special circumstance allows the prosecution to seek the death penalty. There are 2 counts because of California's fetal homicide statute, any fetus-meaning eight weeks of development and onward-is considered an equal victim.

    May 2, 2003 - Mark Geragos becomes Peterson's attorney.

    June 12, 2003 - A gag order is placed on participants, saying the restrictions were necessary to preserve Peterson's right to a fair trial amid "massive" publicity.

    August 18, 2003 - Judge Al Girolami rules that news cameras will not be allowed in the courtroom at the preliminary hearing.

    September 26, 2003 - Laci Peterson's family files a civil lawsuit against Scott in Stanislaus County Superior Court to prevent him from receiving money for selling his story.

    October 29, 2003 - Preliminary hearing - DNA and forensics evidence is presented.

    December 3, 2003 -
    Scott Peterson pleads not guilty at his formal arraignment.

    December 19, 2003 - Laci's mother, Sharon Rocha sues Scott Peterson for over $5 million for the deaths of her daughter and unborn grandson. As the executor of Laci's estate, she files two separate lawsuits in the Stanislaus County Superior Court, a wrongful death action and a survival action.

    January 20, 2004 - The trial is moved to San Mateo County.

    February 2, 2004 - Judge Alfred Delucchi bars cameras from the San Mateo County courtroom for the entire trial.

    March 4, 2004 - Jury selection begins.

    May 27, 2004 -
    The six-man, six-woman jury is seated in the case. There are also six alternates.

    June 1, 2004 - Trial begins.

    June 21, 2004 - Judge Delucchi tells jurors that they must take care to ensure their actions in and around the courtroom are not misconstrued. The warning comes after Juror No. 5 spoke to Laci's brother, Brent, at a courthouse security checkpoint on June 18.

    June 23, 2004 - Juror No. 5, Justin Falconer, is dismissed from the jury.

    August 10, 2004 - Frey testifies that Scott told her he was a widower and lied about where he lived and where he traveled. Jurors hear recordings of Scott and Amber's conversations, made by police after she discovered the truth.

    October 5, 2004 - The prosecution rests.

    October 26, 2004 - The defense rests.

    November 1, 2004 - The prosecution makes its closing arguments.

    November 2, 2004 - The defense starts its closing arguments.

    November 3, 2004 - Jury deliberations begin.

    November 12, 2004 - Peterson is found guilty of 1st degree murder for Laci's death and 2nd degree murder for son Conner's death.
    - The 1st-degree charge usually carries a potential sentence of 25 years to life with the chance of parole but in this case, the jury finds that "special circumstances" apply in Laci's death, and he could face a death sentence or life in prison without parole.
    - The second-degree charge carries a potential sentence of 15 years to life.

    November 30-December 9, 2004 - Penalty phase. Sharon Rocha testifies, crying and even shouting at Scott several times. Scott's parents and half-sister testify for the defense.

    December 13, 2004 - The jury recommends that Peterson be sentenced to death.

    March 16, 2005 - Judge Alfred Delucchi follows the recommendation of the jury and sentences Peterson to death.

    October 21, 2005 - A judge rules that proceeds from a $250,000 life insurance policy Scott Peterson took out on Laci will go to Laci's mother.

    July 12, 2006 - Scott Peterson gives a videotaped deposition for a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by Laci's family.

    October 31, 2007 - The Fifth District Court of Appeal reaffirms an October 21, 2005 ruling that Sharon Rocha should get the $250,000 life insurance payout for Laci's death.

    April 2009 - Laci Peterson's parents drop their wrongful death lawsuit against Scott Peterson.

    July 5, 2012 -
    Peterson's automatic appeal is filed in the California Supreme Court.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/us/sco...al-fast-facts/
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    Scott Peterson's Mother Dies of Cancer at 70 Still Believing Son's Innocence

    Convicted murderer Scott Peterson's mother, Jackie Peterson, died earlier this month at the age of 70. Sources say that Jackie never stopped believing in her son's innocence but was unable to visit him in prison before dying.

    "Jackie's death has not been announced publicly," a source told Radar Online. "The family does not want the notoriety that will come with it."

    She was seen throughout Scott's trial, often wearing oxygen and fully supported her son, who was charged with the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn son Conner on Christmas Eve in 2002. The trial brought a lot of publicity to the Peterson family, publicity that Peterson's attorney maintained cost his client a fair trial.

    "Before hearing even a single witness, nearly half of all prospective jurors admitted they had already decided Mr. Peterson was guilty of capital murder," Cliff Gardner noted in his appeal. "The publicity continued throughout the trial. A mob estimated at more than 1,000 people gathered at the courthouse to await the guilt phase verdict. After the guilty verdict was announced, the 12 jurors departing to await the beginning of the penalty phase – and decide whether Mr. Peterson would live or die – were met with wild applause and cheering."

    Scott was sentenced to death and remains behind bars as San Quinten State Prison in California. He is currently housed in the East Block Condemned Row II, where he awaits the death penalty, which may or may not actually happen. According to reports, there are 725 inmates on Death Row but no one has been executed in California since 2006.

    Scott has maintained his innocence and claims not to know what happened to his pregnant wife on the morning of her murder. He told authorities that he was out fishing when she disappeared. Prosecutors argued, however, that Scott strangled Laci, and then dumped her body in the San Francisco Bay.

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/sc...ocence-106963/

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    Eunice Simpson died believing her son was innocent of double murder too, and that the LADP set him up in order to get credit for solving the case.

    OJ made only 5 mistakes during the commission of the crime and thereafter:

    - he cut his hand while slitting Nicole's or Ron's throat;

    - he dropped a glove at Nicole's, probably right after he cut his hand and then took the glove off because it hurt like heck;

    - he dribbled blood from Nicole's to his place;

    - he dropped the other glove behind his house;

    - he tried to run with the beard and the money and the white Ford Bronco.

    That alone should have been enough to convict him of double murder. But unfortunately Vannatter had the vial of OJ's blood in his pocket when he went back to OJ's property -- dumb and lazy. He should have checked it into the evidence locker before heading back out there.

    But moms always believe -- or usually do -- that their little angels are innocent no matter what.

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    'Selfish' Scott Peterson Deserves Death, CA Says

    Before Scott Peterson, the sleepy town of Modesto, Calif. - population 201,000 - made its name as the birthplace of wine behemoths Ernest and Julio Gallo and legendary filmmaker George Lucas, who immortalized the town in his 1973 ode "American Graffiti."

    But on Christmas Eve, 2002, Peterson's wife of five years Laci - 8 months pregnant with the couple's 1st child - went missing. Peterson said he had left early that morning to go fishing at the Berkeley marina on the San Francisco Bay, 90 miles away, and that Laci was alive and well when he left.

    As days passed and the search for Laci Peterson and the unborn Conner intensified, the media swarmed to Modesto. Despite Peterson's best efforts to keep his name and face from being associated with his missing wife, one woman took notice and called the Modesto Police Department tip line: Peterson's mistress, Amber Frey.

    Conner's body washed ashore on April 13, 2003, in Richmond, a few miles north of the Berkeley marina. Laci's badly decomposed body was discovered a short distance away the following day.

    Police arrested Peterson for the murders on April 18, in San Diego County. Besides changing his appearance - he had grown a goatee and dyed his hair - police found $15,000 in cash and foreign currency, two driver's licenses, 4 cellphones, clothes for all sorts of weather and a considerable amount of survival gear when they searched Peterson's newly purchased Mercedes during the arrest.

    After moving the trial from Stanislaus County to San Mateo County due to the extraordinary amount pretrial publicity in Modesto, prosecutors conviced jurors to convict Peterson of killing Laci and Conner in November 2004. They returned a death penalty verdict the following month, and San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucci, now deceased, sent Peterson to death row at San Quentin State Prison in March 2005.

    7 years later, Peterson appealed his death sentence to the California Supreme Court. In a 423-page document filed in July 2012, Peterson maintained his innocence and said that the worldwide pretrial publicity - coupled with erroneous evidentiary rulings by Delucci - made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.

    But in a 519-page answer filed Monday, the state countered that Peterson's consuming desire to be free of Laci and Conner led him to commit the murders. "Fueled by a trifecta of selfishness, arrogance and wanderlust, Scott Peterson decided to take matters into his own hands by planning and carrying out the murders of his wife and unborn child and then dumping their lifeless bodies into San Francisco Bay," the response, penned by deputy prosecutor Donna Provenzano and signed by Attorney General Kamala Harris, stated.

    "Thankfully, the forces of nature did not oblige Peterson in his attempt to hide the evidence of his crimes," the document continued. "Although he was successful in ridding himself of those perceived irksome responsibilities, all the while portraying himself as the consummate husband and family man, ironically, Peterson forfeited his freedom in the end."

    Peterson received a fair trial through the efforts of Delucci, "an experienced and respected jurist," Provenzano wrote.

    "The trial court shielded the legal process from the searing gaze of the public and the media," she added. "The trial court's unrelenting dedication to the fairness of the proceedings also enabled the parties' attorneys to perform their respective functions in an effective manner geared toward divining the truth and helping the jurors to reach just verdicts."

    The document also praised the work of the jurors, who endured 3 months of jury selection, a nearly 5-month-long guilt phase, and 2 rounds of sequestered deliberations in the case.

    "Based on the compelling evidence adduced at trial, the jury fairly concluded that appellant, in an unmitigated act of selfishness and arrogance extinguished two beautiful lives - one of which appellant made certain would never see the light of day," Provenzano wrote. "The jurors duly considered whether there was anything about appellant's character, background, or actions that merited leniency.

    "Having properly evaluated the penalty phase evidence, the jury determined appellant deserved the penalty of death. Thus, the criminal justice system did not fail Scott Peterson. On the contrary, the process was fair and the verdicts just," the filing stated.

    Peterson's response is due March 27, although the high court routinely grants delay requests in high-profile cases.

    The last execution carried out in California took place in 2006. A number of state and federal challenges of the Golden State's use of lethal injections has led to a de facto moratorium on the death penalty here, and the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice has opined that death sentences are unlikely to ever be carried out due to excessive delays at the appellate level and the high court's crushing backlog of death-penalty reviews.

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    Jurors talk about Scott Peterson trial a decade after death sentence

    By Azenith Smith
    KTVU

    As Monday marked the 10 year anniversary of when Scott Peterson was sentenced to die for killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife Laci, KTVU spoke with two of the jurors on the trial about the decision they made a decade ago.

    Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant with their unborn son when she died. Some say Peterson's case is an example of the slow pace of justice in the United States.

    Behind the walls of San Quentin Prison's original death row are the state's most notorious inmates. Scott Peterson has lived there now for 10 years.

    Prison officials said the 42-year-old's life is pretty monotonous. Every day he walks the yard on the roof. These days he doesn't get much mail.

    “I hope he's having a miserable time,” said former juror in the Peterson trial Mike Belmessieri. “I hope he's suffering much as I'm sure his wife did.”

    Back in 2004, Belmessieri and John Guinnaso spent nearly six months at the Hall of Justice in Redwood City as jurors for Peterson's trial.

    “It was unbelievable as far as looking at him in the courtroom versus the facts in the case,” said Guinnaso. “By physical looks he didn't look like the type of individual that could carry out murder.”

    The grim murder case captivated the nation. Captured in photos, a beaming Laci Peterson was pregnant with a baby to be named Conner.

    She vanished right before Christmas 2002. Months later, the 27-year-old's body and remains of a fetus were found on the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay.

    Her husband Scott Peterson was the main suspect after reports of infidelity surfaced. Jurors ultimately saw him as a young man who wanted to be free of a wife and child.

    “I believe that had Laci not been pregnant she'd still be alive today,” said Belmessieri.

    After months of emotional testimony and weeks of deliberations, the jury found Scott Peterson guilty. The judge then agreed with the jury's recommendation that Peterson be put to death by lethal injection.

    State law does not allow news organizations to request on camera interviews with prisoners. According to Peterson's automatic appeal to the California Supreme Court filed two years ago, he maintains he's innocent as he did when KTVU interviewed him in 2003.

    “I had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance,” said Peterson in 2003.

    A decade on death row, the State Attorney General's Office just filed its response to Peterson's appeal in January. It took Peterson eight years to file that appeal.

    “I think one of the things it tells us is that these cases are slow to come to justice,” said Santa Clara University Law Professor Ellen Kreitzberg.

    Kreitzberg studies death penalty cases. She said these cases normally take years since there are not enough qualified and competent lawyers in California to handle them and the state simply doesn't pay enough.

    Right now, 749 inmates are currently on death row in California. The last execution was in 2006. According to a death penalty information center report, the state has spent more than $4 billion on the death penalty since 1978. The majority of the dollars are spent on pre-trial and trial costs.

    “I think the one thing everybody agrees on in California is that the system is broken and by everyone I mean whether you are for the death penalty or against the death penalty everybody agrees it doesn't work,” said Kreitzberg.

    Last July, a federal judge ruled California's death penalty procedure is systematically flawed and therefore unconstitutional.

    Kreitzberg estimates Peterson will likely sit on death row for at least another 15 years as his appeals go through the state and federal levels.

    “I'm a little frustrated because we made the decision and it hasn't been followed through yet,” said Guinnaso.

    “I think we have to take a look at how our system is built and reconstruct it to where it's a little more efficient than what it is,” said Belmessieri.

    As these jurors wait, they live with no regrets on handing down the ultimate penalty.

    “No I don't have a second thought at all,” said Belmessieri. “Every juror on that jury to this day will stand up and tell you we did the right thing."

    While it will be closure for them when and if Scott Peterson is executed, they realize it will never be for Laci Peterson's family.

    “They lost their daughter forever,” said Guinnaso. “I'm sure they will want to be present when it happens but it will not bring their daughter back or their grandson back. They are going to have that heartache for the rest of their lives as long as they are here on this earth.”

    http://wn.ktvu.com/story/28535527/ju...death-sentence

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    Scott Peterson hurrying death-penalty appeal

    By Garth Stapley
    The Modesto Bee

    Scott Peterson will take the next step in his death-sentence appeal in less than four months, the office of the California Supreme Court said Monday.

    That would be a relatively quick response to the prosecution’s latest brief, filed in January. The Modesto man’s camp has said that Peterson, 42, wants to expedite a legal process that can take decades; his wife’s survivors say he could end up on a fast track to the death chamber if the strategy backfires.

    An appeals prosecutor in January said Peterson’s yearning to be free from marriage and impending fatherhood prompted him to murder his 27-year-old pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, at Christmastime 2002. Peterson said he had been fishing in a newly purchased boat in San Francisco Bay and returned to an empty house; the badly decomposed bodies of mother and fetus washed ashore nearly four months later.

    A blockbuster trial stretching over much of 2004 featured testimony from his girlfriend, Fresno massage therapist Amber Frey, and ended with a guilty verdict and his arrival on death row in March 2005. Peterson’s appeal attorney, Cliff Gardner, filed his appeal seven years later – considered fast – and told the Supreme Court he will respond to prosecutors’ January brief by July 27.

    Peterson’s 2012 appeal says that evidence was weak and claims that Judge Alfred Delucci, who since has died, made several missteps that warrant a new trial. The state attorney general’s office responded that Peterson, “fueled by the trifecta of selfishness, arrogance and wanderlust, decided to take matters into his own hands” and murdered Laci and Conner.

    The California Appellate Courts Case Information System provides case information for California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal cases. Case information is updated once an hour throughout the business day.

    California has not had an execution in nine years. There were 753 condemned prisoners on death row as of March 9.

    http://www.modbee.com/news/local/art...#storylink=cpy

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    New court brief says judge botched Scott Peterson’s 2004 trial

    By Garth Stapley
    The Modesto Bee

    Scott Peterson got a bum trial in 2004, his appeals attorney says in the latest California Supreme Court brief from a case that captured attention around the globe and landed the Modesto fertilizer salesman on death row for the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son.

    “Because of various errors committed by the trial court, he did not receive the fair trial to which he was entitled,” the document reads. Peterson’s Oakland attorney, Cliff Gardner, blames Judge Al Delucchi, who died of cancer in 2008, for legal missteps, and not celebrity defense attorney Mark Geragos of Los Angeles, who gave up television commentary on the matter to lead Peterson’s camp when the case ballooned to blockbuster status.

    “The trial in this case was certainly not perfect,” Gardner said in the document. “Far from it.”

    Another attorney is working on a separate but parallel effort to have Peterson freed from custody while waiting for Supreme Court justices to weigh his appeal.

    Substitute teacher Laci Peterson, 27, was eight months pregnant when she disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002. Her husband, then 30 and now 42, said he had been fishing in a newly purchased boat in San Francisco Bay and returned to an empty house; the badly decomposed bodies of mother and fetus washed ashore nearly four months later.

    To escape pervasive publicity, Scott Peterson’s trial was moved from Modesto to the Bay Area, where he was convicted of double murder in late 2004 and sentenced to die. Gardner formally appealed Peterson’s sentence in July 2012, focusing on Delucchi’s alleged errors in jury selection and allowing evidence that helped prosecutors while barring testimony that could have helped Peterson’s defense.

    The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris countered each objection in a January document, and Peterson’s latest 181-page reply brief was filed Thursday with the state Supreme Court. Much of the document restates previous contentions, such as:

    ▪ Delucchi improperly excused some prospective jurors because they shared objections to the death penalty on written questionnaires.

    But 13 specifically stated in other answers that they might be able to set aside their views, to comply with the law, Gardner said in the latest brief. All should have been questioned verbally, but none were, Gardner contended.

    “The improper exclusion of even a single juror based on opposition to the death penalty requires a new penalty phase,” Gardner said in the brief.

    ▪ The judge allowed testimony about a certified dog picking up Laci Peterson’s scent at the Berkeley Marina four days after authorities believed her husband launched his 14-foot boat to dump her body. The dog had failed two-thirds of tests with similar conditions; “No case anywhere in the country has approved admission of such evidence with such a track record,” Gardner said.

    A study of scent tracking in 2011 – seven years after the Peterson trial – concluded that dogs gave false alerts, or signs at having found a scent trail, 85 percent of the time when their handlers were aware of where the scent was supposed to be, Peterson’s brief says. Prosecutors’ reliance on tracking testimony “ignores case law, scientific research and common sense as well,” Gardner concluded.

    He additionally noted that “the FBI requires a success rate of 90 percent before admitting dog scent identification evidence.”

    Also, Delucchi gave jurors “one-sided instruction” by telling them the dog evidence could be used to convict Peterson but not telling them that it could be used to acquit him, Gardner contended.

    ▪ Delucchi prevented Geragos from showing a video of a similar boat capsizing under like conditions, with a man about Scott Peterson’s size disposing of a mannequin about Laci’s size in the bay. But the judge allowed prosecution testimony about stability experiments on the same boat model performed in a freshwater swimming pool in Indiana 25 years before the trial.

    The judge offered to let Peterson’s defense camp recreate the experiment with authorities watching. That would have been “an indefensible intrusion” into the defense process, inconceivable in most courts, Gardner said.

    ▪ After the trial was moved from Modesto to Redwood City, Delucchi refused a defense plea to move it again to Los Angeles.

    Gardner cited another case that had been moved after a surveys found that 52 percent of prospective jurors had been exposed to pretrial publicity, and a third trial that moved when 30 percent believed the defendant was guilty before hearing evidence. Yet Delucchi denied Geragos’ request even though 96 percent of prospective jurors in San Mateo County knew about the Peterson case and 45 percent believed he had killed his wife.

    “The publicity which attended the Scott Peterson trial was beyond anything any of the participants had ever seen,” Gardner wrote. “If this is not an extreme case, then the term has lost all meaning.”

    ▪ Harris’ office had noted that Geragos did not exhaust his peremptory challenges – his right to excuse prospective jurors without explaining why – and concluded that he must have been satisfied with those finally selected. That idea “has no basis in the real world. None,” Gardner wrote. He contended that Geragos, having lost his motion to move the trial, knew from questionnaires the views of remaining prospective jurors and simply opted to “make the best of a bad situation.”

    ▪ A prosecution witness specializing in tides acknowledged he was not an expert on how bodies might be carried by water currents, yet Delucchi allowed him to testify about that very thing.

    ▪ Harris’ office made much of the fact that Scott Peterson rented five vehicles at different times to spy on dive teams searching for bodies in the bay, surmising that he was “checking to see if searchers were looking in the right place.” But prosecutors left out that he also drove to the Medeiros boat launch area of the O’Neill Forebay at San Luis Reservoir, where authorities conducted a similar search, and watched, also speaking to no one.

    “Under (prosecutors’) theory, there was no reason for him to travel there,” Gardner said.

    Harris’ office in January had said that Peterson was “fueled by the trifecta of selfishness, arrogance and wanderlust” and sought to escape marriage and impending fatherhood. They noted “overwhelming evidence,” albeit circumstantial, of his guilt, including subscriptions to pornographic television programs less than two weeks after Laci vanished, selling her vehicle and considering selling their home less than a month later, stopping mail and using a nursery they had prepared for storage.

    Gardner scoffed at prosecutors’ “insistence that no errors at all were made at trial and that this was the perfect trial,” at one point exclaiming with sarcasm, “The golden fleece has been found.”

    State Supreme Court justices could elect to weigh Gardner’s appeal after or at the same time that they consider Peterson’s request to be freed while awaiting the appeal; that petition has yet to be filed.

    “This case gets in line behind their other cases, so it’s not something that will happen quickly,” said Birgit Fladager, who steered a team of prosecutors from Stanislaus County in the Peterson case before winning election as district attorney.

    California has not had an execution in nearly a decade, and 751 condemned prisoners were on death row as of July 6.

    http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article29080468.html

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    There is no better way to avoid execution than to have a woefully deficient trial lawyer. Peterson is screwed because he hired one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the country to handle his trial. Peterson called 39 witnesses in mitigation over the course of more than a week.

    He basically has to count on juror or prosecutorial misconduct.

    On the other hand, the really good appellate attorneys are masters at creating delays in both state and federal court. These guys have an advantage in terms of that.

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    Will Scott Peterson conviction be thrown out?

    A more than 200-page petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been filed with the Supreme Court of the State of California on Scott Peterson's behalf to have his murder conviction overturned.

    Peterson was convicted in 2005 of first-degree murder for the death of his wife, Laci, and second-degree murder for the death of their unborn child.

    On a website dedicated to Scott Peterson's appeal, his family said there are 19 claims in the petition that highlight new evidence that shows the court should overturn his conviction.

    ”It’s been difficult and we’re on the long path to justice,” Janey Peterson, Scott Peterson’s sister-in-law, told 10News from her San Diego home. “The basis of a habius petition is new evidence that was not presented in the courtroom.”

    The petitions claims a juror lied on her application and should never have been in the courtroom in the first place.

    “One of the jurors evidently lied on her jury application. She said she’s never been involved in a lawsuit. She’d never testified as a witness. Both those things are not true,” Janey Peterson said.

    They also say there is evidence that was never told or shown to jurors, including evidence that numerous neighbors saw Laci Peterson alive walking their dog after Scott had left for the day.

    “It is to me clearly evident, not only that Scott is innocent, but in addition to that he did not get a fair trial,” Janey Peterson said.

    The petition also states that Scott Peterson had ineffective counsel.

    “There were things that Mark Geragos could have done better,” Janey Peterson said.

    Laci Peterson disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002 and her body was recovered on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay in 2003, where Scott Peterson had been boating on the day of her disappearance.

    Scott Peterson was arrested in April of that year and convicted of the murders in March 2005. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection.

    http://www.10news.com/news/will-scot...own-out-112415
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    I would be extremely surprised if his conviction was overturned. Being a California native my whole life and watching, seeing, and listening to this case is hard to believe and fathom what he did. Roughly 52% of all Californians love there death penalty including the few great judges (gently implying the bad ones are against).

    Point being, regardless if his condemned status is overturned, it will only be a matter of time until he is resentenced to death. Than again, what do I know. California loves to waste money on cars, houses, Apple products, and pointless appeals.
    Last edited by mykers; 11-25-2015 at 04:12 PM.

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