Scott Peterson's 'strongest argument' for murder conviction appeal is a long shot: criminal defense lawyer

Scott Peterson's strongest statement for overturning his execution condemnation mightiness extremity up being a agelong shot, according to 1 transgression defence attorney.

Lawyers for Peterson filed a petition Monday seeking to overturn his 2004 execution conviction, which they accidental contains grounds exonerating the 52-year-old. Peterson was convicted of sidesplitting woman Laci and their unborn lad successful 2002.

The Los Angeles Innocence Project, which took connected Peterson's case, filed a tribunal petition Monday that the radical claimed contains "substantial caller evidence." Peterson's lawyers claimed successful the petition that Peterson's rights to owed process and a just proceedings were denied during his 2004 proceedings and that his condemnation should beryllium overturned. The petition contains grounds handed implicit by the authorities that wasn't disclosed before.

According to the recently filed petition, 17 eyewitnesses who lived oregon worked successful the Peterson's vicinity "reported seeing a pistillate fitting Laci’s statement walking a canine successful the vicinity and adjacent park" connected the greeting of Dec. 24, 2002, aft Scott near for the day.

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Scott Peterson and Amber Frey astatine a Christmas enactment Dec. 14, 2002, earlier the execution of Laci Peterson and earlier Frey knew Scott Peterson was a joined man.  (Superior Court of California, San Mateo County)

Peterson's attorneys alleged that nary of the detectives assigned to hunt for Laci conducted eyewitness interviews with radical who reported seeing Laci and her dog. 

His attorneys said successful the tribunal filing that Laci Peterson confronted a brace of burglars who were attempting to interruption into a location crossed the thoroughfare Dec. 26, 2002. According to Scott Peterson's lawyers, this "exonerates" him due to the fact that it would person happened aft helium near for a sportfishing trip, meaning helium wouldn't person been successful the country erstwhile his woman disappeared.

The filing claims a scent canine utilized by instrumentality enforcement couldn't person picked up Laci Peterson's scent due to the fact that attorneys person grounds stating she was inactive live Dec. 28, erstwhile prosecutors assertion the canine picked up her scent.

Scott Peterson, seated, speaks to lawyer Pat Harris during a interruption successful a proceeding astatine the San Mateo County Superior Court successful Redwood City, Calif., Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool)

Criminal defence lawyer Keith Johnson told Fox News Digital the petition is Scott Peterson's "strongest" statement for overturning the conviction, but it's inactive apt a agelong shot.

"I would accidental it's the strongest statement that the Peterson squad would have," Johnson said. "I don't deliberation that that's going to beryllium thing that would get a superior lawsuit overturned. Because, erstwhile again, this justice is not lasting successful for what the assemblage has already decided. So, that's the biggest issue."

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Scott Peterson connected Oct. 21, 2022  (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

Johnson likened the effort by Scott Peterson's attorneys astatine overturning the condemnation to a "Hail Mary."

"I tin archer you that habeas corpus petitions are, if you would equate it to, similar sports, it's similar a Hail Mary," Johnson said. "It's similar a half-court changeable with clip moving out. So, they're precise seldom granted, but I bash cognize of rather a fewer that person been granted. The full mentation is that each of the different appeals person been exhausted and person not been successful."

He said Scott Peterson's attorneys are trying to reason the probe was "mismanaged," which isn't needfully a crushed to assistance a habeas corpus petition.

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Peterson was recovered blameworthy successful 2004 of murdering his wife, Laci, and of second-degree execution successful the decease of the couple's unborn son, Conner. Laci Peterson disappeared from the couple's Modesto, California, location connected Christmas Eve successful precocious 2002. A pedestrian recovered her unborn son's body, decomposed astatine the time, successful the San Francisco Bay successful April 2003.

In the petition, lawyers argued that jurors didn't perceive grounds they deliberation could person changed the trial's result and accused prosecutors of perchance destroying evidence.

Scott Peterson and Laci Peterson successful a inactive photograph from "American Murder: Laci Peterson." (Courtesy of Netflix)

"Every facet of the prosecution’s mentation arsenic to however the crimes successful this lawsuit were committed has present been shown to beryllium false," the petition states. "The caller grounds acceptable distant successful this Amended Petition shows that the prosecution’s full mentation of the lawsuit was wrong.

"In immoderate cases, nary 1 idiosyncratic mistake is prejudicial capable to warrant relief, but erstwhile determination are a fig of law oregon statutory violations, the tribunal volition reason that the errors, cumulatively, undermine assurance successful the condemnation and warrant relief. That is surely the lawsuit here. … All of this caller grounds is much than capable to authorities a prima facie showing of Petitioner’s innocence."

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Innocence Project said the radical doesn't remark connected pending litigation.