Why scott peterson is innocent

Janey Peterson was asked if she believed Peterson being an adulterer could be a motive for murder. Scott Peterson will attend court virtually from California's San Quentin State Prison Wednesday as his legal team fights for a new trial. They have argued Peterson's previous trial was flawed, claiming one of the jurors lied about her history of domestic abuse in order to get selected on the case and convict him. A judge is expected to set a date to hear the allegations of juror misconduct, which could result in a new trial if the judge finds the allegations credible.

He was initially sentenced to death in , but the sentence was reduced to life without parole last year by the California Supreme Court, which cited "significant errors" in jury selection.

Peterson's own sister, Anne Bird, agreed with the decision to overturn the death penalty but also said on TODAY last year that her brother is "exactly where he should be" in prison. Janey Peterson, who says she has known Peterson since he was 13, has been fighting for his innocence for nearly two decades and regularly speaks with him in San Quentin State Prison. She believes so strongly in her brother-in-law's innocence that she has returned to school to get a law degree so that she can be part of his defense if he is granted a new trial.

He has tackled every assignment from interviewing astronauts on the International Space Station to prison inmates training service dogs for military veterans. IE 11 is not supported. Since the Peterson Investigation Fund has been announced, I've received heavier than normal email volume asking how I can be so evil or so crazy or so stupid to think Scott Peterson is innocent.

It's quite simple. The burden of proof was on the Prosecution, and they did not prove that Scott murdered Laci and Conner.

They claim the murder took place at Covena, the home Scott and Laci shared. In spite of the fact that the Modesto Police Department had control over the supposed crime scene within 1 hour of Laci being reported missing, and engaged in 2 extensive two-day follow-up searches, they produced no evidence from the home, no evidence that Scott engaged in a clean-up of evidence, and no evidence on Scott's hands, arms, upper body, or face to indicate he had been in a struggle with Laci.

So, we are left to believe that Scott Peterson, in his very first murder attempt, is brilliant enough to choose just the right method of murder so as to leave no evidence to have to clean up and to leave Laci virtually unable to respond with any efforts to save herself.

Lee, Wecht, and Baden find that just as incredible as I do. They claim the murder took place the night of the 23rd, and that he removed her body from the house to the pickup for transport to the warehouse on the morning of the 24th. Given the timeline they provided during the trial, Laci would have been dead from hours before he removed her body from the house.

By the time he had ended the dastardly deed, Laci was already dead for some 16 hours. Nor did they produce any witnesses that saw Scott removing Laci from the house to the pickup, or from the pickup to the boat. So, Scott not only managed to choose a manner of death that would leave behind no forensics and to leave Laci in the house and transport her with the pickup and boat without her giving off any cadaver scent, but he also managed to pull it all off without encountering a single witness.

As far as the place where Scott supposedly disposed of the body, they could not prove he did so. No, the location where the bodies were found is not proof that Scott put them there. Because the Prosecution did not prove they washed ashore. Using the location where the bodies were found and all the known environmental conditions in that area between December 24 and April 13, Dr. Cheng developed a high probability area to pinpoint where Laci was when she and Conner separated.

Detective Hendee was assigned to search that area for the anchors and missing body parts. He put together the most skilled team of divers and most sophisticated sonar equipment in the United States. Did they find any evidence that Scott placed Laci's body there. Furthermore, Dr. Cheng had to admit that his high probability area was defined by Conner's trajectory, retracing him from where he was found. He could not reproduce a trajectory that got him and Laci back to the same place.

That's incredible. No evidence of the crime in the home or the pickup or the boat. No cadaver scent in the home or the pickup or the boat. No witnesses that saw Scott Peterson commit any part of this crime.

The couple also pawned some less expensive jewelry for a few hundred dollars, which prosecutors found odd due to the other appraisals they had in the works. Her aunt said that after Laci disappeared, she inventoried her jewelry and noticed a watch and a pair of two-carat diamond earrings were missing. During the trial, Scott's lawyer showed a receipt for a pawn shop that showed someone sold a watch, identical to the one the aunt claimed was missing.

He didn't say whose name was on the receipt but indicated that it wasn't Scott's. We never learned who that person was. In the beginning of the investigation into Laci's disappearance, police received an anonymous tip that she had been abducted by a satanic cult.

A furniture store owner was reported saying that police called him about the disappearance and said they heard a cult was being run out of his building. He told them he had never heard of such a thing.

Though that was the end of the cult theory for police, Scott's defense team brought it up during the trial. His lawyer said he was working on a lead that cult members abducted Laci in a brown van. In an interview, Scott's lawyer suggested there might be a link between Laci's disappearance and an unsolved case of another pregnant woman, Evelyn Hernandez, who went missing on May 1 in in San Francisco.

Scott's lawyers also referenced the killings by the Order of the Lion, a satanic cult responsible for the deaths of four people. Three members are currently on death row, and two others are serving life sentences.

Police believed there were 20 to 30 members in the cult. In diaries found during the investigation, members wrote that sacrificing a newborn was the purest thing you could do.

The defense used this angle when the autopsy found that there was a small incision made on baby Conner and the fact that evidence still doesn't know if he was born or not.

A source close to the Peterson family said that because Peterson's death sentence penalty was overturned, they're worried he'll go free if he gets a retrial. But now, with the thought that Scott could eventually go free? That's devastating. The family is really worried. Emily Blackwood is an Editor at YourTango who covers pop culture, dating, relationships and everything in between.

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