REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson’s lawyers made their final appeal in court Thursday to convince a judge that his conviction for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and unborn son two decades ago should be overturned because a “feisty” juror with a history of domestic violence was biased against him from the start.
But Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo appeared skeptical that they had made their juror misconduct case, suggesting during questioning from the bench Thursday that perhaps it was Peterson’s lawyers, not the juror, who had messed up from the start.
When Peterson’s lawyer Cliff Gardner said that juror Richelle Nice lied when she testified earlier this year that she was the aggressor, not the victim, during a fight with her boyfriend two years before she was chosen for the Peterson jury, the judge asked why Gardner didn’t call the boyfriend to the stand to refute her.
