Jackie Peterson (C), mother of Scott Peterson (news - web sites), her daughter-in-law Janey Peterson (R) and son Joe Peterson leave the courthouse after Scott Peterson was convicted of murder in Redwood City, Calif., November 12, 2004. After a trial that attracted nationwide attention, California fertilizer salesman Scott Peterson, 32, was found guilty on Friday in the Christmas Eve 2002 first-degree murder of his pregnant wife and second-degree murder of his unborn child. REUTERS/David Paul Morris/Pool