In a Redwood City courtroom Monday, lawyers for the Los Angeles Innocence Project that recently took up the case said there was a “mountain” of evidence that “appears to be missin…
Scott Peterson, left, and defense attorney Mark Geragos talk during a hearing in a courtroom in Modesto, Calif., Friday, Dec. 12, 2003. REDWOOD CITY — Scott Peterson’s lawyers are again searching for evidence that someone else killed his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son 22 years ago and insist prosecutors are refusing to hand over at least 645 pieces of it.
Peterson, now 51, appeared remotely on a courtroom screen from the Mule Creek State Prison northeast of Stockton, wearing a blue prison shirt and occasionally donning reading glasses. San Mateo Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hill said she would rule later on whether prosecutors should turn over evidence. The original trial was moved from Modesto to Redwood City because of pretrial publicity.
With the help of devoted relatives and defense lawyers, Peterson, a Cal Poly graduate who sold fertilizer for a living, has been appealing his conviction ever since. The California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence in 2020, finding that jurors who said they were personally opposed to the death penalty but could impose it if warranted were improperly excluded from the jury. Since then, his family has been trying to have his conviction overturned as well and force a new trial.
“All evidence related to that burglary and who committed it should have been given to the defense,” Mitchell said.pawned at a Modesto pawn shop they believe could have been Laci’s, witness statements from neighbors who say they saw Laci walking her dog that morning, and evidence from hound dogs who smelled Laci’s scent from Peterson’s warehouse where he picked up his fishing boat and at the Berkeley Marina where he launched.
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