The Los Angeles Innocence Project is getting behind convicted murderer Scott Peterson, arguing in legal papers that new evidence will show he didn’t kill his pregnant wife more than two decades ago.
Peterson, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Laci Peterson, received renewed hope Thursday when the legal organization confirmed to outlets it had taken up his case.
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He was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife and their unborn child after Laci’s body was found the year prior.
Innocent Project lawyers argued in a recent court filing that “new evidence now supports Mr. Peterson’s long-standing claim of innocence and raises many questions into who abducted and killed Laci and Conner Peterson,” ABC News reported Thursday.
The attorneys are looking for numerous items they couldn’t find after combing over his trial files, including evidence from investigations into a December 2002 burglary across the street from where the couple lived, a missing watch that Laci Peterson wore and a van fire in the area around the time the mom-to-be went missing as well as docs tied to witness interviews, the outlet reported.
The Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office replied to the nonprofit’s request for information late last year, claiming the project’s argument didn’t pass muster, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Peterson, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Laci Peterson, received renewed hope Thursday when the legal organization confirmed to outlets it had taken up his case.
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He was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife and their unborn child after Laci’s body was found the year prior.
Innocent Project lawyers argued in a recent court filing that “new evidence now supports Mr. Peterson’s long-standing claim of innocence and raises many questions into who abducted and killed Laci and Conner Peterson,” ABC News reported Thursday.
The attorneys are looking for numerous items they couldn’t find after combing over his trial files, including evidence from investigations into a December 2002 burglary across the street from where the couple lived, a missing watch that Laci Peterson wore and a van fire in the area around the time the mom-to-be went missing as well as docs tied to witness interviews, the outlet reported.
The Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office replied to the nonprofit’s request for information late last year, claiming the project’s argument didn’t pass muster, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
LA Innocence Project takes convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson’s case, insists new evidence could exonerate him
Peterson, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Lacey Peterson, received renewed hope Thursday when the legal organization confirmed to outlets it had taken up his case.
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