I was a teenager living in California when this “trial” took place and every day outside the courtroom there was a mob of women screaming for this man to be killed. And then they acted like they’d won the Super Bowl when he was convicted and sentenced to death.
There was no solid physical evidence in the conviction and Peterson was found guilty of circumstantial evidence that kept evolving as the investigation progressed.
As in the verdict had been decided at the outset and then ANY evidence would be made to fit the narrative for guilt.
Just like global warming, COVID, or any other narrative that the public laps up like pigs at a trough.
Like I said, I won’t say he’s innocent but there wasn’t enough actual evidence to convict him of capital murder (which another court said when they reversed his death sentence). It was just a narrative and he was a crap husband and that made him a convenient target for law enforcement who were under pressure to find a suspect, get a conviction, and close the case.
His lawyer was awful.
When I come home and find my wife missing I put my clothes in the washer and take a shower ...
EXACTLY, he is a dirtbag. You need to convict based on evidence. I never saw it in my reading, or watching shows about it. Nancy Graceless is something like 0 for 100 on cases she loses her mind over, and she was never more jury tampering insane, than for this case.
I think there was more physical evidence for Casey Anthony killing her baby than for Scott Peterson killing his wife. But because men bad, women good, Scott gets life, and Casey walks free, not being charged for murder at all. Casey Anthony was sentenced to a four-year jail term and a $4,000 fine for four counts of lying to the police on July 7, 2011. However, the prison time is canceled out by the near three years already spent behind bars and credit for good behavior.