The Los Angeles Innocence Project has taken up the case of Scott Peterson, who was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson.
The project only takes cases of doubtful stories and they represent people convicted of crimes who want to prove their innocence.
They are seeking new evidence in Peterson’s original trial.
“The Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) represents Scott Peterson and is investigating his claim of actual innocence,” a spokesperson for the organization said in a statement.
Laci Peterson, 27, was eight months pregnant with their son, Conner, when she was killed in December 2002, five years after they married.
Peterson was convicted of murder in 2004 and sentenced to death the following year.
But the California Supreme Court overturned his sentence in 2020 and in 2021 he was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In April 2023, Peterson filed a petition to be seen before a judge. He claimed that new evidence would support his innocence.
Prosecutors said Scott Peterson dumped his wife’s body in Berkeley Marina on Christmas Eve of that year and tried to cover up the crime by making it appear as if she were missing, according to online court records. They later found her body on the shore.
Attorneys for Peterson have argued his wife was killed after she stumbled upon a burglary.
Peterson and the Los Angeles Innocence Project are seeking new materials to be presented in court to prove his innocence in the case in a bid to eventually overturn his conviction, the filing stated.
