Scott Peterson attacked in California prison by fellow murderer: corrections dept

Convicted slayer Scott Peterson was attacked by a chap inmate astatine the California situation wherever helium is incarcerated for sidesplitting his woman and unborn son. 

"On March 9, 2025, incarcerated idiosyncratic Charles R. Miles was walking connected a recreation way astatine Mule Creek State Prison erstwhile helium attacked incarcerated idiosyncratic Scott Peterson," Todd Javernick, a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told Fox News Digital. "Staff instantly responded, utilizing chemic agents and batons to halt the attack. Both Miles and Peterson were medically evaluated, determined to person sustained insignificant injuries, and were returned to their respective housing."

"Miles received a superior regularisation usurpation for the incident," the connection said. 

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Scott Peterson listens to the authoritative during his proceedings connected charges successful the execution of his wife, Laci Peterson, connected Jan. 4, 2004 successful Modesto, California. (Photo by Bart Ah You/Modesto Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Court documents amusement that Miles was convicted of a gang-related execution successful 2011 and was sentenced to 58 years to beingness successful prison. 

Peterson is serving a beingness condemnation for the 2002 execution of his woman Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn son. 

He was primitively sentenced to death, but the California Supreme Court reduced that condemnation to beingness without parole successful 2020.

He was transferred to Mule Creek State Prison from San Quentin State Prison successful 2022. 

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Scott Peterson and Laci Peterson successful a inactive photograph appearing successful the docuseries, "American Murder: Laci Peterson." (Courtesy of Netflix)

The Innocence Project, a nonprofit that represents convicted criminals, is moving with Peterson to respire caller beingness into his case. 

In October, a California justice granted Peterson the close to a post-conviction find period, required by authorities instrumentality for convicted felons serving sentences longer than 15 years. 

At the time, Washington, D.C., homicide detective Ted Williams told Fox News Digital that helium thought that rediscovery successful the lawsuit would beryllium unfruitful. 

Scott Peterson is imprisoned for murdering his large wife, Laci.

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"They’ve got the close man," helium said. "Scott Peterson murdered his woman Laci and his lad Conner," adding that Peterson "wanted to escaped himself of some truthful that helium could transportation connected a narration with Amber Frey."

Frey, Peterson's mistress, testified against him during his trial.