Scott Peterson's latest attempt to present new evidence in wife's murder fails - BERITAJA

Scott Peterson’s latest effort to coming grounds his ineligible squad claims would beryllium he didn’t termination his woman and unborn boy has been rejected by a Bay Area judge.

In an bid handed down Monday, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hill denied the mobility from Peterson’s attorneys pinch the Los Angeles Innocence Project — uncovering that the expected grounds was not new, but alternatively “merely repeats and elaborates upon the aforesaid contested theories that existed astatine the clip of trial.”

Peterson, now 53, was convicted successful 2004 of first-degree execution successful the decease of his wife, Laci Peterson, and second-degree execution for the decease of her fetus. In their conflict for a caller trial, Scott Peterson’s attorneys claimed that grounds raises superior questions about the timeline of the killings outlined by prosecutors, that constabulary destroyed grounds and that they grounded to analyse a burglary astatine a neighbor’s location for imaginable connections to Laci Peterson’s disappearance.

Attorneys pinch the Los Angeles Innocence Project said they planned to entreaty the judge’s ruling.

“The ruling demonstrates a profound misunderstanding and misapplication of the rule applied to habeas corpus petitions,” said Hannah Brown, lawman head of the Los Angeles Innocence Project.

The organization, which provides investigations and ineligible services to group believed to person been wrongfully convicted, began representing Peterson successful 2024 — interviewing dozens of people, researching investigatory methods and asserting that caller grounds shows Peterson is guiltless of sidesplitting his pregnant wife.

Peterson was sentenced to decease successful 2005, but was later resentenced to life successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

Peterson has different abstracted declare successful tribunal alleging juror misconduct successful his execution trial, arguing that a juror provided mendacious answers successful a questionnaire.

“The LAIP is undeterred and will proceed to conflict for Mr. Peterson’s innocence,” Brown said successful the statement.