Despite being cleared by police, Janey believes they killed Laci and framed Peterson by disposing of her body 90 miles away in an area where Peterson happened to be fishing at the time.
Authorities had said that they believed the pregnant woman died on the morning of the 24th or the previous night. The reported sightings all happened between 9. However, Modesto Police Department detective Al Brocchini has said that cops concluded the woman they spotted was not Laci but another pregnant lady with a golden retriever.
Lieutenant Xavier Aponte at Norco Prison in California phoned in a tip in claiming that he overheard an inmate's conversation where Laci was mentioned. Aponte's initial telling of the conversation appeared to align with the theory that Laci was killed by burglars.
Harris said they decided not to bring Aponte to testify at trial, however, when he began to change his story. At Peterson's trial, a neighbor testified seeing the couple's golden retriever inside the Petersons' gated yard at Janey said that when the mailman arrived around She believes that is proof Laci was out walking the dog after Peterson left the house, reportedly about 9.
She has claimed that if the couple's dog McKenzie had been at the property at the time, he would have barked at the mailman. Mike Peterson insisted that his wife died after falling down the stairs. But following a three-month trial in that included testimony from a male escort and evidence about a family friend who was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in Germany years earlier, a jury convicted him of beating his wife to death.
He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Peterson was finally granted a new trial in December when Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ruled that a key prosecution witness, former State Crime Lab blood analyst Duane Deaver, had lied on the stand during the original trial. Another five years of appeals and other legal wrangling ensued before Peterson finally agreed to enter an Alford plea on Feb.
Under an Alford plea, a defendant can maintain his or her innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence for a conviction. Hudson sentenced him to 64 to 86 months in prison but gave him credit for the more than seven years he had already spent behind bars, allowing him to walk out of the courtroom a free man. But she said two things will never change: "Laci and Conner will always be dead, and you will always be their murderer.
The legal saga leading up to resentencing. Laci Peterson, seven months pregnant with Conner, was reported missing on December 24, Their bodies washed ashore and were found separately in April A jury convicted Scott of their murders, and he was formally sentenced to death in Laci Peterson's disappearance sparked massive public interest in the case. Prior to Wednesday, Peterson had been in prison limbo since the California Supreme Court reversed his death sentence in August for murdering his wife and unborn child.
Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager said earlier this year she would not seek to reinstate the death penalty after consulting with the victims' family, who said the "process is simply too painful to endure once again.
The resentencing comes amid yet another legal tangle in Peterson's case: In October , the California Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reexamine his murder convictions because a juror did not disclose involvement in other legal proceedings.
A sketch showing Scott Peterson during his resentencing on December 8,
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