Posted on 07/06/2012 11:18:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The day his wife's body was officially identified, Peterson was arrested near Torrey Pines golf course
Convicted killer Scott Peterson is appealing his 2004 death sentence claiming he had nothing to do with the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn son Connor. The San Diego native was convicted of the murders in 2004 and sentenced to death. He's currently being held in San Quentin State Prison.
Peterson's attorney Cliff Gardner filed an appeal with the California Supreme Court late Thursday claiming Peterson was unable to get a fair trial due to the overwhelming publicity the trial received along with incorrect evidentiary rulings. Peterson claimed that Laci was killed sometime after he left their Modesto home the morning of Dec. 24, 2002 to go fishing in the San Francisco Bay.
Laci Rocha Peterson's body and that of her unborn sound were found months later in San Francisco Bay.
On the day the bodies were officially identified, Scott Peterson was arrested at the intersection of Callan and Torrey Pines Road in the San Diego area. Law enforcement officers, who had been tailing Peterson for months, feared their suspect was about to flee to Mexico with his new blond haired appearance.
His trial was ordered moved from Stanislaus County of the Petersons' home, to San Mateo County.
Beyond issues with the publicity, Gardner argues the judge made several erroneous evidentiary decisions and other rulings that led to Peterson receiving an unfair trial.
Gardner also argues that some of the prosecution's strongest evidence should never have been shown to the jury. For instance, Gardner alleges that the police dog who picked up Laci's scent at the Berkeley Marina "even though the dog had a dismal record of being wrong a remarkable 66 percent of the time."
The evidence was overwhelming. The guy’s a piece of cr**.
I didn’t know he was sentenced to death or that CA had the death penalty.
This is the normal ping pong game of California.
Some people on FR like to spread misinformation. California has the death penalty. During the week Scott Peterson was sentenced to death, 2 or 3 others were sentenced to death on the Bay Area alone. 6 people were executed in California in the 2000s. The death sentence is frequently imposed, but executions are carried out less frequently.
It wasn’t anything I ever read, it was just an assumption of mine.
Death penalties aren’t appealed in other states? I think they are.
Was unable to get the OJ jury. . . .
That's more like it.
Odd that Peterson has waited this long to file an appeal. I’m sure his wife’s family is pleased. No closure for them. This POS will drag it out forever.
Maybe Greta can have this as her topic every night for two years again. I stopped watching Fox when that happened last time. They take a local crime and talk about it endlessly for a year or two, see who sticks around. NOBODY.
“claiming he had nothing to do with the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn son Connor”
If an unborn child is nothing but a glob of cells, how can you be convicted of killing it?
Wouldn’t this mean that abortion is murder? In both instances unborn child meets its demise.
Am I the only one that sees this? (FReeper Legal Eagles Alert)
Here we go again .... criminals sentenced to death outlive all of us. I would love to see a time line following the money .... how much is which lawyer paid by whom for doing what, when .... I expect I would learn that our criminal justice system has been designed by lawyers, for lawyers. and is just as corrupt as our political system.
*sigh* nostalgia....
We have become an ignorant and dumbed down society. The inmates of the asylum have won.
The last I looked over 700 were waiting on death row, a few going back to the Carter years. More condemned have committed suicide waiting or died of natural causes than have actually been put to death in the past 30 years.
With such a backlog, at a rate of one execution per month it would take nearly 60 years to clear Death Row if no others were added. CA just went through judge-imposed moratorium that lasted years because he was unhappy with the lethal inject procedure and demanded a new and separate facility be built rather than make use of the gas chamber.
While it's true that CA has a death penalty, and voters do want it, as a real and vital piece of meting out justice it's a just farce.
You are not the only one who sees this obvious hypocrisy but judges don’t see it that way. A life is only a life because the pregnant woman deems it to have value to her as such.
If I knew it was false, it wouldn’t be an assumption it would be a fact. Did you ever not know something and learn it later or were you born knowing everything and, mostly, what you have no direct interest in?
Because he's not licensed to kill, only doctors licensed by the gov't can put out a shingle advertising 'killing done here' and demand payment for it. He's been charged with not having a license and shingle, also./s
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