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12 mar 2024 · Peterson was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of murder in the deaths of Laci and the unborn child they planned to name Conner. Prosecutors said he killed Laci and dumped her body in San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. The death sentence was later overturned, and he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
12 mar 2024 · One of California’s most notorious convicted murderers, Scott Peterson, appeared in court via video Tuesday in an effort to get DNA testing of evidence that he says could exonerate him in the...
13 mar 2024 · A man convicted of killing his wife and unborn child twenty years ago in California is back in court today, after claims that new evidence proves his innocence.
21 kwi 2023 · LOS ANGELES — Two men who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted murder after a 2004 shooting were declared innocent Thursday by a California judge. Under a...
19 sty 2024 · Peterson, now 51, was originally sentenced to death in 2005 but was resentenced to life without parole after the California Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that members of Peterson’s jury were ...
18 sty 2024 · The LA Innocence Project has taken up the notorious case of convicted wife killer Scott Peterson in new court filings and is seeking new evidence from the original trial.
28 paź 2024 · It is now clear that innocent defendants will be convicted and sentenced to death with some regularity as long as the death penalty exists. It is unlikely that the appeals process—which is mainly focused on legal errors and not on factual determinations—will catch all the mistakes.
