{"id":1884,"date":"2020-08-24T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:44:58","slug":"cal-supremes-overturn-scott-peterson-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"CAL Supremes Overturn Scott Peterson&#8217;s Death Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a unanimous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/S132449.PDF\">ruling<\/a> announced today, the California Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence given to murderer Scott Peterson in 2005.\u00a0 Barnini Chakraborty of Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/scott-petersons-death-sentence-in-murder-of-pregnant-wife-overturned-by-california-supreme-court\">reports<\/a> that the high court did not dispute Peterson&#8217;s guilt for the murders of his wife Laci and unborn son, but the court held that errors in the selection of jurors, including dismissing jurors who were opposed to the death penalty invalidated his death sentence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The victims were reported missing on Christmas Eve 2002, after Peterson called his mother-in-law to ask is she knew where his wife was.\u00a0 Laci was 8\u00a0 1\/2 months pregnant when she disappeared.\u00a0 Peterson claimed he was fishing alone all day.\u00a0 Four months later the bodies of Laci and her baby boy were found on the shore of San Francisco Bay.\u00a0 Peterson was having an affair with a single mother at the time of his wife&#8217;s disappearance.\u00a0 That woman wore a wire to record conversations she had with Peterson which were later used as evidence at trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a unanimous ruling announced today, the California Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence given to murderer Scott Peterson in 2005.\u00a0 Barnini Chakraborty of Fox News reports that the high court did not dispute Peterson&#8217;s guilt for the murders of his wife Laci and unborn son, but the court held that errors in the selection of jurors, including dismissing jurors who were opposed to the death penalty invalidated his death sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CAL Supremes Overturn Scott Peterson&#039;s Death Sentence - Crime &amp; 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