Scott Peterson’s Attorneys Say They Have Proof ‘Proving’ His Innocence of Pregnant Spouse Laci’s Homicide

The Los Angeles Innocence Venture has filed a petition in courtroom presenting new proof and witness statements they declare show Scott Peterson didn’t kill his spouse Laci Peterson and their unborn son, Conner.

“Had the jury heard this proof, it’s extremely seemingly they’d not have reached a responsible verdict,” the LAIP mentioned in an announcement on Monday, April 21.

On Friday, April 18, legal professionals with the LAIP filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the California Court docket of Attraction searching for to overturn Scott’s 2004 conviction for the 2002 murders.

Scott, 52, has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in April 2003 after Laci and Conner’s badly decomposed our bodies have been present in San Francisco Bay.

Convicted of two counts of first-degree homicide, Scott was sentenced to loss of life row in 2005. That sentence was overturned in 2020. He stays in custody on the Mule Creek State Jail in Ione, Calif., whereas he fights for his freedom.

He and his legal professionals are assured that his conviction will likely be overturned based mostly on new proof they declare “undermines the prosecution’s total circumstantial case towards Petitioner, and reveals that the jury relied on false proof, together with false scientific proof, to convict him,” the assertion says.

A lot of the brand new proof the attorneys declare they’ve facilities round a December 2002 housebreaking of a Modesto house throughout the road from the home the place Scott and Laci lived. Scott’s attorneys had beforehand argued that Laci was killed after she witnessed two males breaking into their neighbor’s home whereas she was strolling their canine, and that Scott was on a fishing journey by himself the morning she vanished.

New proof the LAIP claims it has features a witness who allegedly “overheard a dialog among the many burglars about Laci seeing and confronting them,” in keeping with the petition. “This proof exonerates Scott Peterson as a result of it reveals Laci was alive when he left house on December 24, because the housebreaking came about.”

They declare to have new proof a couple of van they consider belonged to the burglars that was set ablaze close to the Petersons’ house — they usually consider Laci was really killed within the van, in keeping with the petition.

The jury didn’t hear a couple of mattress at the back of the van with obvious bloodstains on it, and the LAIP mentioned in its assertion, that “new proof displaying the prosecution suppressed proof of the police investigation into that van fireplace on the time of trial.”

Authorities consider Scott dumped Laci and Conner’s physique when he went fishing the day she vanished. The LAIP claims that new proof allegedly reveals that the our bodies of Laci and Conner “couldn’t have migrated from the realm the place Peterson went fishing to the place they have been recovered,” which jurors heard about in his trial.

“Fairly, their our bodies have been most certainly positioned within the waters off the Albany Bulb, a peninsula that’s accessible by automobile and foot,” states the LAIP.

The petition challenges the prosecution’s authentic declare that Peterson secretly purchased the boat by purportedly offering proof that Laci and Scott purchased the boat collectively, the LAIP claims.

The LAIP assumed lead counsel on this case in November 2023.

Laci’s household has remained steadfast of their perception that Peterson killed Laci and Conner.

In Could 2024, Peterson and the LAIP received a slender authorized victory of their bid to clear his title when a decide dominated {that a} piece of duct tape discovered on Laci’s pants may very well be re-tested, in keeping with NBC Information.

Calling the case towards Peterson “solely circumstantial,” the petition says that “no direct, bodily or forensic proof was discovered supporting any a part of the prosecution’s idea, or in any other case implicating Petitioner.”