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Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner Peterson. He has been on death row for over a decade as he tries to get his conviction appealed. Peterson and his family maintain his innocence, even participating in a docu-series titled, The Murder of Laci Peterson. This has caused quite a stir among viewers who now say they have doubts about his guilt. Could Scott Peterson been wrongfully imprisoned for so long because of circumstances he had no control over? The answer could very well be yes. As The Murder of Laci Peterson played out in six parts on the A&E network, new information became available to the public. The case was brought to national television in 2004 when the young mother-to-be went missing on Christmas Eve morning. Something wasn't right, and her family knew it. Over the subsequent weeks, the media played a role in making Scott Peterson look guilty. He was having a relationship with another woman while his wife Laci was pregnant with their child. His actions were despicable, but were they also murderous? …show more content…

She was the juror on the case and was dubbed Strawberry Shortcake because of her crazy, bright hair. According to In Touch Weekly, Richelle Nice is insisting she didn't intentionally lie to get on the jury that would ultimately decide Scott Peterson's fate. His defense team is pushing the fact that she lied on her questionnaire about not having been part of a lawsuit or anything else. Nice was, in fact, part of a court case. She was in a similar situation where she felt like her unborn baby may be at risk. The defense is arguing that Richelle was too emotional over the incident, making it hard for her to have been

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The murder of Lynne Harper was a tragic and uneventful occurrence to have taken place in the small community of Clinton, Ontario. What is also uneventful is that an innocent fourteen-year-old teenager, named Steven Truscott, was wrongly accused and charged with Lynne’s death. This was all because Steven last saw helping Lynne out by giving her a lift on his bicycle. The legal system failed Lynne, Steven, and their families because the Police and Crown did not follow proper procedures. Even after Stevens’s exoneration, the real murder was never caught and was able to continue living their life, unlike Steven who loss a part of his childhood and adulthood.

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Does one have the right to kill his or his family member (wife and children) or an unwanted relationship to just get out of one? If it seem the only way out of such relationship without it highly Impact one life? Well A highly-publicized incident is well know of one which is Peterson was convicted to the death in 2005 for the homicide of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child in California. Scott Peterson has been initiate guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and second-degree murder in the death of his unborn son Conner. The board reached a judgement in the occasion in its seventh day of discussions, because he did not want to give up his lifestyle to be tied down to a wife and baby.

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The legal issue as discussed above is related to whether there is enough physical evidence to say that Scott Peterson is the murderer. His behavior, the fact that he had an affair with Amber Fray shortly before his wife 's disappearance that he continued to do so after her disappearance, and that he lied multiple times, and his going to the Berkley Marina on the day of his wife 's disappearance while the bodies of the victims were found not too far from that location, make him a very likely suspect. He also had a life insurance of 250 000$ put under Laci 's name (Dockterman, 1), and showed a behavior that would suggest him leaving the country before being tried also adds to this belief. However, there is still not direct evidence of him committing the murder so there is an issue as to accusing someone of murder and sentencing him to death with this kind of evidence, is it enough and would this be just? Moreover, the state of California considers an 8 weeks old or older fetus as a victim.

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Although to everyone the couple's relationship seemed quite normal, the death of Laci turned everything around for Scott. Because he murdered both his wife and child, the sentence of life without parole acts as the right punishment for an action of that degree. The death of hundreds of women each day results from a partner or family member which Scott Peterson proves. With the murder of his wife and unborn child, Peterson added directly to this number seemingly increasing such a horrible

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