California's Supreme Court on Monday reversed the death sentence handed down to Scott Peterson for the 2002 deaths of his wife Laci and unborn son. The high court found that the trial itself was fair and the murder convictions stand.
The high court found that the trial itself was fair and the murder convictions stand. In an automatic appeal, which was first filed with the Supreme Court in 2012, the court found that potential jurors were dismissed erroneously, in part due to their general objections to the death penalty.
A young child stops to look at a makeshift memorial and a missing person's banner offering a half-million dollar reward for the safe return of Laci Peterson at the East La Loma Park in Modesto, California, on January 4, 2003. In November 2004, a jury found Peterson guilty of first-degree murder for Laci's death and second-degree murder for the death of the son, Conner. Peterson, now 47, was sentenced to death on December 13, 2004.
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