Scott Peterson's new attorneys from Innocence Project seek DNA testing

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Attorneys with the Los Angeles Innocence Project on Tuesday went before a San Mateo County judge, arguing for DNA testing to help prove Scott Peterson did not kill his pregnant wife.

The hearing was mostly procedural with Judge Elizabeth Hill setting dates in the next few months to hear motions by Peterson's attorneys and deadlines for both sides to file court documents. "This is a last ditch effort for Scott," KTVU legal analyst Michael Cardoza said before the hearing. "If they find new evidence, then they will ask for a new trial." The closely watched hearing was to have started at 9 a.m.

s Peterson's brother, Joe, and his wife, Janey Peterson, sat in the front row of the gallery and left the courtroom afterward without commenting to a crush of media outside.David Harris and Birgit Fladager, the original trial attorneys from the Stanislaus County DA's office, were among those in court.Peterson is serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury convicted him of killing Laci Peterson and their unborn son Connor in 2002.

 

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