Scott Peterson lawyer can’t shake juror testimony over trial

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Legal professionals hoping to overturn Scott Peterson’s conviction in the sordid slaying of his expecting spouse 20 decades ago completed their questioning Monday with no shaking a previous juror from her very important testimony that she acted properly right before and during his 2004 trial.

They need to first confirm to California Exceptional Court Decide Anne-Christine Massullo that juror Richelle Wonderful lied on her pre-trial jury questionnaire to get on the panel that convicted Peterson of murdering Laci Peterson, 27, and the unborn son they were heading to identify Conner. The judge then would have to find that Awesome was biased towards Peterson from the commence, tainting his jury and denying him a fair trial.

But Awesome swore in testimony Friday and once again Monday that, although she may possibly have answered juror queries improperly, she did so honestly.

Peterson’s attorneys prepare to commit the following two times of the weeklong listening to placing on witnesses they say will contradict Nice’s responses.

“When I loaded out that questionnaire, honestly and truly, nothing of this ever crossed my intellect, at any time,” Great mentioned Monday of her failure to disclose that she had sought a restraining purchase in 2000 towards her then boyfriend’s previous girlfriend, stating then that she feared for her individual unborn little one.

That, Peterson’s lawyers say, coloured her check out of their customer, accused of killing his wife when she was 8 months pregnant and dumping her entire body into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002.

“I did not publish it on the questionnaire since it never ever crossed my thoughts, at any time. It was not carried out intentionally — it did not cross my brain,” Good swore.

She also disputed any monetary motive in the case.

Jurors in no way talked over jointly crafting a guide until eventually right after the trial and verdict — “Absolutely not,” she swore.

A further juror loaned her $1,000 only soon after the trial ended — “Way right after the trial, probably even a yr.”

She denied advertising a sequence of publish-demo letters in between herself and Peterson to People today journal.

Pleasant claimed she doesn’t recall a fellow juror’s account that when she joined the jury in deliberations she declared that “We should get Scott for what he did to Laci and ‘little male.’ ”

“It does not sound like anything I would say, but I have no concept,” she stated. “I really don’t don’t forget this.”

She explained to her recollection, the 1st time she utilised “little man” to refer to Conner was in her very first tv interview after the trial.

Peterson’s attorneys argue that she lobbied to get on the jury.

But prosecutors on Monday identified as that into problem with a transcript of the jury collection approach exhibiting that the trial choose experienced dismissed Awesome from the jury pool because of economic hardship and she was ready to stroll out the door with out criticism — until Peterson’s superstar attorney, Mark Geragos, termed her again.

It was only then that she explained she could manage to provide for the duration of what was expected to be a five-thirty day period demo even with staying compensated by her employer for just two weeks.

Wonderful said she could afford to go devoid of pay back due to the fact she was living with her mom and boyfriend, who could assistance monetarily.

But Peterson attorney Pat Harris said Friday that they just can’t locate Nice’s then-boyfriend, who he said advised a protection investigator that he was anxious at the time about the financial toll and Nice’s have to have to care for a unwell kid. Massullo is weighing whether or not to allow for the investigator to testify alternatively.

Geragos has said in court docket papers that had he known of Nice’s private background he would have right away bounced her from the jury.

Peterson’s attorneys prepare to contact to the witness stand three former fellow jurors a co-creator of “We the Jury,” the ebook penned by Good and six other jurors and filmmakers who say Pleasant had on her wall a photograph of a younger youngster in pajamas with printing on the pajamas that stated “Little-person.”

They also prepare to dilemma a People journal reporter who wrote a story primarily based on the 17 letters Good wrote to Peterson following his conviction and the 8 letters Peterson wrote to Great.

Nice grew to become psychological for the only time during the two times of questioning when she said her therapist had advised that she compose to Peterson in the wake of a trial that she said “absolutely” modified her.

She stated she questioned Peterson about his infidelity in one letter since she was seeking to recognize “about males in standard, why they cheat.”

Peterson was arrested only just after his lover came forward to say he experienced instructed her his wife was absent a thirty day period ahead of her genuine disappearance.

Great testified that her boyfriend at the time was serially unfaithful, which Peterson’s attorneys have suggested biased her in opposition to him going into the demo, which she denies.