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Julia Prodis Sulek

Accused of hiding her past, Scott Peterson juror testifies: ‘I was not a victim of domestic violence’

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – A former juror in Scott Peterson’s 2004 murder trial defiantly maintained on the witness stand Friday that she had never been a victim of domestic violence and didn’t lie about her past to become a stealth juror to get seated on the high-profile case.

Instead, she testified it was she who had been the aggressor with her former boyfriend in a fight a couple years earlier, before she filled out a courthouse questionnaire and was chosen for the jury.

“We went to our bedroom. I closed the door and I took off on him,” Richelle Nice testified Friday – the first day of an anticipated weeklong hearing on Peterson’s quest for a new trial. “I punched him. I hit him and he called the police on me.”

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