Los Angeles – After having investigated the case for more than a year, the Los Angeles Innocence project has submitted voluminous evidence that it says that Scott Peterson did not kill his wife and unborn son in 2002.
In a petition of nearly 400 pages at the California Court of Appeals, submitted on Friday evening, the La Innocence project claimed that Scott Peterson is innocent and should be destroyed.
Laci Peterson, who was 27 years old and was eight months pregnant, disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002. Her body was found in San Francisco Bay in April 2003.
Scott Peterson, now 52, was arrested and accused of murder in the first degree in the death of his wife and second -degree murder in the death of their unborn son. A jury found him guilty after a six -month process in 2004.
The Los Angeles Innocence Project claims that Scott Peterson has been denied its rights to a proper process and a fair trial because more than two decades ago, jury members have not heard any evidence that they claim that the outcome of the trial could have been influenced, and the police and officers of justice have not investigated the case fairly and even possibly destroyed critical evidence.
“In my opinion, as soon as the police had imprisoned Mr Peterson as the main suspect, they had no interest in finding evidence that demonstrated that someone other than Scott Laci Peterson may have abducted because that evidence did not match their working theory of the case,” said La Innocence project director Paula Mitchell in the submission. “In addition to ignoring the eyewitness reports, the police turned a blind eye to other relieving evidence that Mr Peterson would have acquitted.”
She said that she believes that the press releases of the police contain information “who indicate to the public that the police did not believe Mr Peterson’s Alibi, almost from the first day.”
“This created a Domino effect and eventually created a tidal wave of media -Attachment aimed at Mr Peterson as the main suspect in the case,” she continued.
In their application, the La Innocence Project claims that they have new scientific evidence that the date of the death of the unborn child of the Petersons was later claimed during the trial, and that an expert in water movement could prove that the body of Laci Peterson was not dumped where the police said it was in December 2004 – undermining the business that undermined undermining undermining.
“This new evidence undermines the entire indirect case of the prosecution against the petitioner and shows that the jury relied on false evidence, including false scientific evidence, to condemn him,” the petition states. One of the lawyers in the case said that she has never seen so strong evidence throughout her career.
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The submission also makes several claims of new evidence and witnesses with two crimes that they thought happened around the same time as the disappearance of Laci Peterson near the Petersons’ house – a burglary in the house of a neighbor and a burnt van in the airport district of Modesto.
Last year a judge did not test them on Laci Peterson’s DNA on a mattress -stained mattress in the van, so his lawyers don’t know if her DNA is on that mattress. Prosecutors have argued that testing on one of the mattress cloths found male DNA, so no further tests would be needed. The La Innocence Project said that “the” more precise DNA tests has searched to determine whether there is a link to the crimes in this case. “
A judge gave them access to revise some discovery in the case from the trial in 2004, including police interviews and files transcriptions.
“Every aspect of the theory of prosecution on how the crimes were committed in this case has now been shown that it is incorrect,” said the petition.
The petition also includes a statement of 126 pages of Scott Peterson, who did not testify during his trial, in which he maintained his innocence and says that he was wrongly convicted of murder.
“It is important for me that the person who killed my wife and son are found responsible and held responsible,” he said. “If those who committed such violence against Laci and Conner are still almost a danger to public safety. It is also important for me that I knew my name and name of my family because I could not and kill my family.”
The submission asks the court to leave the judgment and penalties, in addition to other possible forms of exemption.
Scott Peterson previously appealed against his conviction and claimed that he received an unfair process based on the possible misconduct from the jury.
A judge refused him a new trial in 2022 after his appeal to accuse Stealth jury member.
Prosecutors and police involved in the original process have supported the 2004 conviction.
Scott Peterson was initially sentenced to death for the murders. In 2020, the Supreme Court of California destroyed his death penalty, and quoted that, according to the court documents, his jury was wrongly screened for bias against the death penalty. He later became prison in prison without a conditional release.
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