REDWOOD CITY – When the alternate juror first walked into the deliberations room nearly 18 years ago, she blurted out that Scott Peterson, on trial for the killing of his pregnant wife and unborn son, should “pay for killing the little man,” a former juror in the notorious case testified Tuesday.
“We were like, whoa whoa, before you try to give us your opinion, we have a kind of process,” former juror Greg Beratlis testified. “Anyone walking in and saying, hey guilty or not guilty, we gave everyone equal respect to discuss it.”
In an effort to convince a San Mateo County judge to overturn Peterson’s 2004 murder conviction and order a new trial, his lawyers tried to show Tuesday that controversial juror Richelle Nice was biased against him from the start and showed an unusual attachment to the unborn child by calling him “little man.”
