The Los Angeles Innocence Project has filed a 400-page petition to the California Court of Appeals, arguing that Scott Peterson is innocent of murdering his wife Laci and their unborn child. After extensive investigation, the project contends that Petersonâs original trial was unfair, as vital evidence was not presented to jurors. They assert that police and prosecution mishandled the investigation, dismissing alternative suspects and destroying key evidence. The project claims Peterson's conviction, resulting from a flawed inquiry, should be revisited in light of this new evidence.
In my opinion, once the police locked onto Mr. Peterson as the prime suspect, they had no interest in finding evidence showing that someone other than Scott may have abducted Laci Peterson because that evidence did not fit with their working theory of the case.
This created a domino effect and ultimately created a tidal wave of media attention focused on Mr. Peterson as the prime suspect in the case.
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