The Los Angeles Innocence Project, which says its mission is to "exonerate the wrongly convicted," is seeking new evidence from the 2004 trial of Scott Peterson, the California man serving life in prison for the death of his wife Laci and their unborn son.
The organization is asking for evidence that could point to others being involved in the Peterson case, reports Dan Noyes, the chief investigative reporter for the ABC7 News I-Team in San Francisco, on X Thursday afternoon.
Laci Peterson, who was 27-years old and eight months pregnant at the time of her disappearance on Christmas Eve in 2002, was found in the San Francisco Bay in April 2003. Her husband, Scott, was arrested shortly after and was charged with the first-degree murder of his wife and the second-degree murder of their unborn son.
He was found guilty in 2004 and sentenced to death in 2005, but in 2021 was re-sentenced to serve life in prison without parole.
Peterson's attempt for a new trial in December 2022 was rejected by Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo.
He and his legal team have continued to maintain his innocence, and have claimed that possible jury misconduct led to his being found guilty.
In his arguments, Peterson's attorneys claimed that one of the jurors lied about her history of abuse to be on the panel, reports ABC7.
However, it was ruled later that there was no evidence of misconduct from the juror.
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