Scott Peterson's defense loses bid to introduce witness testimony in long-running fight to overturn conviction

A California justice has rejected claims from convicted slayer Scott Peterson's Los Angeles Innocence Project defence squad that witnesses saw his woman live aft her 2002 disappearance connected Christmas Eve.

Judge Elizabeth Hill of the San Mateo Superior Court recovered the grounds and purported grounds that her disappearance was linked to a adjacent burglary inadmissible.

Peterson was convicted aft a five-month proceedings successful 2004 of the execution of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Conner.

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Scott Peterson and Laci Peterson look successful a inactive photograph from the forthcoming docuseries "American Murder: Laci Peterson." (Courtesy of Netflix)

While Peterson has for years suggested the suspects successful a burglary astatine the location crossed the thoroughfare from wherever helium lived with his woman successful 2002 could person killed her, prosecutors said that the break-in happened aft she had already vanished.

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He initially received a decease sentence, which was aboriginal reduced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole successful 2021.

Scott Peterson is shown successful a inactive representation from a constabulary interrogation connected Christmas Day 2002, hours aft his large woman Laci Peterson was reported missing successful San Mateo County, California. (San Mateo County Court)

He has a abstracted petition pending earlier the California Supreme Court to person his condemnation overturned owed to alleged juror misconduct, and his Innocence Project ineligible squad said it would entreaty the judge's determination Tuesday.

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The tribunal had antecedently rejected Peterson's requests for caller DNA investigating successful the lawsuit connected astir each of the evidence, speech from a portion of duct portion recovered connected his wife's pants.

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Convicted slayer Scott Peterson appears successful tribunal connected Wednesday, May 29, 2024, seeking a caller trial. (Courtesy of KTVU)

Laci Peterson was large astatine the clip she vanished. Her remains were aboriginal recovered successful the San Francisco Bay. So were their son's, astatine a abstracted location.

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Police arrested her hubby successful 2003 adjacent the Mexico borderline aft helium bleached his hairsbreadth blond and departed Northern California with his brother’s passport and $10,000. He had a caller goatee and conscionable purchased a utilized Mercedes successful cash, utilizing the sanction "Jacqueline," which helium told the seller was "a boy-named-Sue benignant thing."

Scott Peterson is led into Stanislaus County Superior Court successful Modesto, Calif., connected April 21, 2003, for arraignment connected charges of premeditated execution successful the deaths of his woman Laci Peterson and their unborn lad Conner. (Ted Benson/Reuters)

At trial, a pistillate helium was having an matter with named Amber Frey testified that helium told her his woman was dormant a period earlier she went missing.

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In recorded calls, helium told her helium didn't privation to beryllium a begetter and was considering a vasectomy.  

And his alibi, which was that helium was sportfishing erstwhile his woman disappeared, placed him successful the aforesaid assemblage of h2o wherever her remains were aboriginal found.

A photograph submitted arsenic an grounds successful the Scott Peterson proceedings shows Scott Peterson and Amber Frey smiling together. (San Mateo County District Attorney's Office)

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Prosecutors person written successful tribunal filings that a constabulary K-9 picked up her scent astatine a vessel ramp successful Berkeley, Calif.. They said her hairsbreadth had been recovered connected a brace of needle-nose pliers recovered from the vessel.

The autopsy besides suggested her remains had been weighted to the oversea level earlier she broke isolated and washed ashore — and prosecutors included grounds that Peterson made aggregate homemade anchors retired of factual and rebar.