CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As Antonio Campos developed his idea for making a dramatized version of the Michael Peterson murder case, the man who defended Peterson — Charlotte attorney David Rudolf — says he tried to be as helpful to the process as possible.
Whatever Campos had in mind, Rudolf wanted it to be accurate.
So in 2009, Rudolf agreed to meet with Campos and answer all of the filmmaker’s questions, many of which pertained to Rudolf’s significant involvement in filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s “The Staircase,” the award-winning documentary series made about the North Carolina-centric true-crime saga.
