Here is everything you need to know about convicted killer, Scott Peterson.
The California Supreme Court has overturned Scott Peterson’s death sentence for the 2002 killing of his 27-year-old wife Laci, who was eight months pregnant with their son Connor. While his 2005 first degree murder conviction for both his wife and unborn son still stands, on Aug.24,2020, the court cited a trial judge’s error in the jury selection process for tossing now 47-year-old Scott’s death sentence. The prosecution still has the right to try again to obtain the death penalty in Scott’s case. The court claimed that the trial judge “made a series of clear and significant errors in jury selection that, under long-standing United States Supreme Court precedent, undermined Peterson’s right to an impartial jury at the penalty phase.” Namely, several potential jurors said that they didn’t believe in the death penalty, but that they could still impose the sentence if the evidence warranted. But the trial judge still allowed them to be dismissed.
