Scott Peterson seems nearly in California court docket as LA Innocence Undertaking takes up homicide case

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Scott Peterson appeared nearly in court docket on Tuesday, practically 20 years after he was convicted of killing his pregnant spouse, Laci, and dumping her physique into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002.

The Los Angeles Innocence Undertaking has taken up Peterson’s case, asking a court docket to order new DNA checks and permit its investigators to search for new proof.

Peterson was sentenced to loss of life after a jury discovered him responsible of homicide within the deaths of Laci and the unborn baby they deliberate to call Conner. The loss of life sentence was later overturned, and he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

In January, the Los Angeles Innocence Undertaking filed motions in San Mateo County Superior Courtroom on his behalf “to order additional discovery of proof and permit new DNA testing to assist our investigation into Mr. Peterson’s declare of precise innocence,” the venture’s director, Paula Mitchell, stated in a press release Tuesday.

“At the moment’s listening to was simply step one in a protracted course of. We’ve not commented on our motions, and we are going to proceed to current our case in court docket – the place it ought to be adjudicated,” she added.

Peterson, 51, appeared in court docket by way of Zoom for a standing convention. The decide set the following two hearings for April 16 and Might 29. Peterson may even attend these hearings remotely from Mule Creek State Jail.