California judge rejects new trial for Scott Peterson
REDWOOD CITY — Scott Peterson’s years-long quest to overturn his murder conviction and be granted a new trial was denied on Friday when a judge ruled that a juror who once claimed to fear for her unborn child in a domestic violence incident was not biased against him when she voted to convict Peterson in the notorious murders of his wife Laci, and unborn son.
In his claim, Peterson alleged that a female juror, Richelle Nice wanted to “punish him” and worked to conceal her history with domestic violence incidents, in order to sit on the jury. Her lack of proper disclosure was “not motivated by pre-existing or improper bias against Petitioner, but instead were the result of a combination of good faith misunderstanding of the questions and sloppiness in answering,” the judge said.
Peterson’s murder trial in 2004 was one of the most sensational in modern history, as millions of people across the country followed the case to understand why a handsome young man with a privileged childhood would kill his beautiful wife, pregnant with their son, Conner, the day before Christmas in 2002.
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