In 2004 a California jury found Scott Peterson guilty of killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife, Laci and their unborn son, Conner after a five-month long trial. Since then, he’s had multiple (failed) attempts at an appeal but was successful in getting his death penalty conviction overturned in favor of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. However his latest attempt (taken up by the Los Angeles Innocence Project) claims that there is untested DNA evidence that is just sitting out there that could help prove that someone else killed Laci and Connor. Prosecutors disagree with him and came up with this 337-page rebuttal opposing his motion for new DNA testing, describing the ‘overwhelming’ case against him that earned him a guilty verdict in the first place.
Scott Peterson, 337 pages of evidence filed by the prosecution team that lays out ‘overwhelming evidence’ against his new appeal.