The Briefing Room
General Category => Crime And Punishment => Topic started by: Gefn on December 20, 2022, 10:19:52 pm
-
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A California judge on Tuesday rejected a new murder trial for Scott Peterson, nearly 20 years after he was charged with dumping the bodies of his pregnant wife, Laci, and the unborn child they planned to name Conner into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002.
Peterson alleged the resulting trial that gripped the world was tainted by a rogue juror who lied about her own history of abuse to get on the panel that initially sent him to death row.
Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo found there was not evidence to support the defense claim that Juror No. 7, Richelle Nice, committed misconduct during jury selection.
https://ktla.com/news/california/ap-california-judge-rejects-new-murder-trial-for-scott-peterson/