The Los Angeles Innocence Project is reportedly seeking new evidence from the infamous trial of Scott Peterson, who was convicted in 2004 of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son.
27-year-old Laci, who was eight months pregnant, disappeared from the couple’s Modesto home on Christmas Eve 2002. Her body was found several months later in the San Francisco Bay. After a highly publicized trial, a jury convicted Scott Peterson of two counts of murder.
“It was the most emotional case that I have seen in my over 40-year career,” criminal defense attorney Michael Cardoza, who was a legal analyst during the Peterson trial, told KNX News’ Nataly Tavidian. “I’m not opining on whether he did it or didn’t do it, whether it was proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but I do know it was driven highly, highly by emotion.”
Two decades later, the L.A. Innocence Project, which fights for people they believe were wrongfully convicted, wants to reexamine the case.
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Attorneys with the organization claim that newly discovered evidence “raises many questions” about who killed Laci and are seeking additional evidence they couldn’t locate after reviewing the trial files.
“I've always said that I didn't believe that Scott Peterson got a fair trial,” Cardoza said. “I know that one of the things they're going to be looking into is the alleged burglary that happened at or near the time that Lacy Peterson disappeared.”
Cardoza said there are several other issues that should be revisited, including where the trial should have taken place and why jurors were improperly dismissed for objecting to the death penalty.
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