Notorious trial in 2004 captivated Americans shocked that a handsome, seemingly charming young man who played golf and sold fertilizer in Modesto could have killed his vivacious pregnant wife and t…
REDWOOD CITY — Scott Peterson’s lawyers made their final appeal in court Thursday to convince a judge that his conviction for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and unborn son two decades ago should be overturned because a “feisty” juror with a history of domestic violence was biased against him from the start.
When Gardner suggested that the juror had concealed her true bias against Peterson on the original jury questionnaire, especially when she failed to mention a restraining order she filed against a woman she feared threatened her own unborn child, the judge turned the tables once again. Gardner’s legal partner, Pat Harris, however, who sat beside Peterson during Thursday’s hearing, was also part of Peterson’s original legal team in 2004. In the courtroom hallway during a lunch break, Pat Harris said it was his original co-counsel, Mark Geragos, who had questioned Nice back then.
Scott Peterson, bottom right, talks with one of his attorneys, Pat Harris, at the San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Peterson is in court for a hearing to determine whether he gets a new trial in the murder of his pregnant wife because of juror misconduct.
Prosecutor David Harris, who helped put Peterson behind bars, defended Nice in court Thursday, saying that she should be believed when she testified that her past altercations with her boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend “never crossed her mind” when she was asked whether she was a crime victim. At the same time, however, he said that Nice was not good at “filling out forms” and said she had likely made a mistake when she answered “no” on the questionnaire to whether she could be a fair juror.
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