REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — After nearly four months as an inmate in the San Mateo County Jail, Scott Peterson made a special request through his lawyers on Friday: Transfer me back to San Quentin.
The notorious prison on the edge of San Francisco Bay, where Peterson spent the past 17 years on death row, is generally not considered a preferred destination. But the state prison has something the county jail does not: looser restrictions on phone calls between lawyers and their clients.
“Can we have him back at San Quentin?” his Beverly Hills lawyer, Pat Harris, asked San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo.
