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Los Angeles Innocence Project takes Scott Peterson's case, decades after conviction
NPR ^ | JANUARY 19, 202411:38 AM ET | Bill Chappell

Posted on 01/19/2024 10:16:57 AM PST by MeganC

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To: MeganC

LOL!


21 posted on 01/19/2024 11:29:06 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: MeganC

family selling home years later does not mean Scott didn’t look into selling as the poster wrote. two different things.


22 posted on 01/19/2024 11:29:06 AM PST by b4me
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To: MeganC
Peterson at least should have a new trial with the previously suppressed evidence presented

Agreed...but this time, if he's convicted, he should be executed within 24 hours of that conviction.

23 posted on 01/19/2024 11:29:52 AM PST by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: MeganC
The police still have no idea when she was killed or where. The also will not let neighbors who saw Lacy walking her dog in the neighborhood testify in court during the time she was supposed to be killed (6 altogether).

There is also a possibility she approached 2 men robbing a house across the street she didn't recognize while walking the dog.

24 posted on 01/19/2024 11:32:27 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: EEGator

Scott Peterson reminds my of that other famous family man, Joe Biden, who was so busy with his job (oops, I mean mistress) that he couldn’t find time to go pick out a Christmas tree with his wife and three kids a week before Christmas.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d had arguments once the wives discovered the improprieties of the two husbands.

Very sad that both women, and at least one of their children, were found dead.


25 posted on 01/19/2024 11:32:54 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: BerryDingle

And it is a well-known that burglars, after they kill you, will wrap you in hefty bags and duct tape, take you out on a boat and dump you in the bay....../s


26 posted on 01/19/2024 11:38:05 AM PST by jpp113
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To: MeganC

Hard to believe it has been that long. I sure hope we find out the truth, one way or another. It’s hard to believe he did it, and just about as hard to think he did.


27 posted on 01/19/2024 11:40:49 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: jpp113
burglars, after they kill you, will wrap you in hefty bags and duct tape, take you out on a boat and dump you in the bay....../s

Possibly, but that would explain why there is no death timeline, why the dog was seen walking around with a leash by itself, and dumping a body out of a boat is a lot easier when someone else acts as a counter-balance as it's rolled out.

28 posted on 01/19/2024 11:43:25 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: MeganC

Everyone knows he did it.

The State never proved it.


29 posted on 01/19/2024 11:43:47 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Ouderkirk

On August 24, 2020, in a 7–0 decision, the Supreme Court of California upheld Scott’s conviction but overturned his death sentence; the court found that Scott’s trial judge[1] had improperly dismissed jurors who opposed capital punishment without asking them whether they could put their views aside. Justice Leondra Kruger explained that, per Supreme Court rulings since 1968, “Jurors may not be excused merely for opposition to the death penalty, but only for views rendering them unable to fairly consider imposing that penalty in accordance with their oath. This is the meaning of the guarantee of an impartial jury.”[1][142][143] Prosecutors initially stated that they would retry the penalty phase, but subsequently reversed that decision in June 2021.[144]

On September 22, 2021, California Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled that Scott would be re-sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[145] The following month, Massullo scheduled a hearing on that matter for December 8.[146][147] On December 8, Massullo re-sentenced Scott to life in prison without the possibility of parole, for the first-degree murder of Laci, and a concurrent sentence of 15 years to life for the second-degree murder of Conner.[2][148]

In October 2022, Scott was moved off San Quentin’s death row, and transferred to Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California.[149]


30 posted on 01/19/2024 11:46:22 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: MeganC

When Scott Peterson

Reported his wife missing

He requested grief counsellors

That was the nail

In his coffin

Gog usa

Magog nato

Rev 13


31 posted on 01/19/2024 11:51:01 AM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: MeganC

I had always felt that Peterson is guilty. However, had I been on his jury I would have had to vote, “not guilty,” based upon the lack of hard evidence at trial. All of the evidence presented at trial was circumstantial and some of it presented by the prosecution was even suspiciously ‘plant’ evidence.


32 posted on 01/19/2024 11:51:50 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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To: BerryDingle

Out of an Aluminum boat you can see into from the ground even on a trailer. The lack of evidence that he did or could have dumped a body from the boat is pretty convincing. The cops released the fact where Scott went fishing, which gave time for the real killers to know where to dump the body. Sorry, he is a dirtbag, but the evidence didn’t convince me.


33 posted on 01/19/2024 12:17:06 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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“His mistress lawyered up with Gloria Alread.”

At the time she testified she had signed a book deal she never disclosed. Of course if he were to be acquitted the book wouldn’t sell. Major conflict.

34 posted on 01/19/2024 12:29:39 PM PST by circlecity
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You mean like the circumstantial evidence that’s put hundreds of people in prison for the January 6, 2021 ‘insurrection’?

Please don’t conflate Murder with Trespassing. BTW, is it really trespassing if there are no signs posted?


35 posted on 01/19/2024 12:44:13 PM PST by euclid216
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To: MeganC

Dan Abrams reminded all of the evidence. Physical evidence! Seems they swept that under the rug. Scott’s jury was right!


36 posted on 01/19/2024 1:03:12 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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“Dan Abrams reminded all of the evidence. Physical evidence! Seems they swept that under the rug. Scott’s jury was right!”

https://www.google.com/search?q=scott+peterson+physical+evidence&sca_esv=599887976&ei=1euqZfi_NJ-jptQP0piO6A0&ved=0ahUKEwi4_r_otOqDAxWfkYkEHVKMA90Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=scott+peterson+physical+evidence&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiIHNjb3R0IHBldGVyc29uIHBoeXNpY2FsIGV2aWRlbmNlSJQtUMwBWNsqcAF4AZABAJgBpAGgAf4PqgEEMS4xN7gBA8gBAPgBAcICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAg0QLhiABBiKBRhDGLADwgIOEAAY5AIY1gQYsAPYAQHCAhMQLhiABBiKBRhDGMgDGLAD2AECwgITEC4YQxiABBiKBRjIAxiwA9gBAsICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIOEC4YgwEY1AIYsQMYgATCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICDhAAGIAEGIoFGLEDGIMBwgIEEAAYA8ICBRAAGIAEwgILEAAYgAQYigUYkQLCAgYQABgWGB7iAwQYACBBiAYBkAYRugYGCAEQARgJugYGCAIQARgI&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

“The physical evidence included nothing more than one single hair linked back to Laci that was found on Scott’s boat.”


37 posted on 01/19/2024 1:40:01 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: euclid216

Circumstantial evidence is flimsy regardless of the case at hand.


38 posted on 01/19/2024 1:41:34 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

Big Peterson fan, are ya?


39 posted on 01/19/2024 4:18:01 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Democrats never backstab each other the way the sorry Republicans do. There is no GOP.)
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