In meticulous detail, prosecutors laid out nearly every shred of evidence they presented at trial, including photographs and transcript excerpts.
Scott Peterson unmutes his connection to address to Judge Elizabeth Hill during a status conference at San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Tuesday, March 12, 2024. REDWOOD CITY — The day Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, 20 years ago, cheers rose up from a boisterous crowd packing the courthouse plaza.
But on Wednesday, after two decades of efforts to overturn the verdict, a fresh group of defense lawyers from the Los Angeles Innocence Project will try to convince a judge that old DNA samples from a bloody mattress in Modesto, and other pieces of evidence that washed up along the San Francisco Bay, must be retested to support Peterson’s claim of “actual innocence.”In an extraordinary 337-page argument, however, prosecutors didn’t just lay out why they opposed handing over the evidence.
Days later, he bought an aluminum fishing boat but never told anyone, including his father-in-law who was an avid fisherman. During a family dinner party a week before Laci vanished, they all discussed fishing, but Peterson never mentioned the boat. A month after Laci disappeared – and three months before her body was discovered – Peterson traded in her Land Rover for a Dodge truck and called a realtor about selling their house that included the fully furnished nursery for the baby they planned to name Conner.
The homeowners left for a Christmas holiday the morning Laci disappeared, and couldn’t pinpoint which day the house was broken into. The burglars were arrested, but the prosecution ruled them out as suspects and the defense never called them to the stand. The defense lawyers are also requesting DNA testing of plastic twine found wrapped and knotted, they say, “in a bow” around the neck of Laci’s baby to determine whether the child had been born, then strangled by unknown assailants — another defense theory offered at trial.
Peterson’s theory that someone else killed his wife, they said, “is based entirely upon conjecture and speculation.”
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