After investigating the homicide case for greater than a yr, the L.A. Innocence Challenge filed a petition to overturn Scott’s conviction, arguing he’s harmless.
Within the almost 400-page doc, filed to the California Court docket of Appeals in April., L.A. Innocence Challenge director Paula Mitchell acknowledged: “In my view, as soon as the police locked onto Mr. Peterson because the prime suspect, that they had little interest in discovering proof exhibiting that somebody aside from Scott might have kidnapped Laci Peterson as a result of that proof didn’t match with their working concept of the case.”
She added: “Along with ignoring the eyewitness experiences, the police turned a blind eye to different exculpatory proof that may have exonerated Mr. Peterson.”
Mitchell famous she believes police press releases “indicating to the general public that police didn’t consider Mr. Peterson’s alibi, nearly from day one” created a domino impact and “in the end created a tidal wave of media consideration centered on Mr. Peterson because the prime suspect within the case.”
The submitting included a 126-page declaration from Scott, wherein he continues to say that he was wrongfully convicted within the case.
The petition additionally revealed the nonprofit has new scientific proof to show Scott didn’t homicide his spouse and unborn son as their deaths reportedly occurred between December 28, 2002, and January 5, 2003. It allegedly proved Laci’s dying occurred when Scott had already been pulled into the investigation after his spouse went lacking.
For what it is value, prosecutors initially listed Laci and Conner’s deaths as December 24, 2002, the identical day the anticipating mother went lacking.
In response to the idea, authorized commentator Nancy Grace questioned the group’s stance throughout her look in an episode of TMZ‘s “2 Indignant Males” podcast
Grace mentioned: “Laci’s physician was flawed, they usually’re proper 20 years later? You inform that to a jury and see what occurs.”