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The LA Innocence Project has now taken up Peterson's case. The group suggests in court documents that Laci Peterson may have witnessed a Christmas Eve break-in across the street from the couple's ...
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
He has repeatedly argued his innocence over the years, with a previous attempt at a retrial in 2021 tossed out. Scott Peterson seen in 2021 (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Key to the Innocence Project's efforts in retesting evidence in the Peterson case is a stolen van that was set on fire on Dec. 25, 2002, in Modesto, a day after a burglary near the Petersons ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scott Peterson appeared virtually in court on Tuesday, nearly 20 years after he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, as his lawyers with the Los Angeles Innocence Project asked a judge to order new DNA tests and allow their investigators to access evidence connected with a burglary across the street from the couple's California home.
LA Innocence Project [ edit ] On March 12, 2024, Scott attended a status hearing in Redwood City that had been granted by a San Mateo County judge in response to a request by LA Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that accepted Peterson's case two months prior.
Scheck presenting Actual Innocence with co-authors Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer. Scheck co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 with Peter Neufeld, also his co-counsel on the O. J. Simpson defense team. The Project is dedicated to the utilization of DNA evidence as a means to exculpate individuals of crimes for which they were wrongfully convicted.
LA Innocence Project takes case. In January 2024, the Los Angeles Innocence Project, a non-profit that works to exonerate people who are wrongly convicted, ...