“Unraveling Justice: The Disturbing Loophole That Could Set Scott Peterson Free After Two Decades”
The law allows defendants who were found guilty of serious or violent felonies and sentenced to 15 or more years in jail access to previously unobtained materials “in possession of the prosecution and law enforcement authorities to which the same defendant would have been entitled at the time of trial”.
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Laci was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve in 2002, and Peterson reported her missing from their Modesto home.
The jailbird claims after he returned home from a solo fishing trip, his dimple-cheeked wife of five years was nowhere to be found.
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But less than four months later, her headless, rotting torso – and the fetal remains of the couple’s son – were discovered along the Point Isabel shoreline.
Laci’s cause of death could not be determined, but lawmen believe her body may have been weighted at the wrists and ankles and submerged in seawater.
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