Scott Peterson should get a new trial proving he could not have committed the murders because of new scientific evidence -- so claims the Los Angeles Innocence Project -- but Nancy Grace says the so-called "scientific evidence" is a load of crap.
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00:00There is new significant evidence showing that Scott Peterson did not murder his wife Lacey and their unborn son Connor, so says the L.A. Innocence Project, and they are asking for a new trial.
00:17Right, and they have presented this evidence now to the Court of Appeals here in California, and they say that due to scientific testing that was not available at the time of the murders, 23, 22 years ago?
00:33The murders, the prosecution says December 24th, 2002.
00:37Right. Well, they said these new testing that is available shows that Scott Peterson, and up to this point, police have believed that Scott Peterson committed these murders on December 24th.
00:50Now, there is new evidence that shows.
00:52This is according to the L.A. Innocence Project.
00:56What they are saying is that there is a new fetal test that they do that can establish when the fetus is no longer alive.
01:07And they say, based on testing that was not available at the time of the trial, the date of death was somewhere between December 28th, 2002, and January 5th, 2003.
01:24And that would not, if that's the case.
01:26If that's the case, what they're saying is it couldn't have been Scott who did it.
01:31Because the police were up his you-know-what at that point on December 28th.
01:37They were already following his every move.
01:39For days.
01:40For days.
01:41They were all over him with helicopters, following him on the ground.
01:45So we got into this.
01:46By the way, this is not the only thing that they brought up, but it is a big thing they brought up.
01:52And we got into this on our Two Angry Men podcast with Mark Garagos and myself, Nancy Grace, who followed this trial soup to nuts.
02:04When she heard about this, she went off.
02:09They're saying that you can actually look at the development of the fetus, and they put the actual date of death sometime between December 28th and January 5th of 2003.
02:24If that were the case, he would not have done it, because the prosecution's case is he did it on the 24th of December.
02:32So they're saying there is this new testing.
02:34This was the most fascinating part of what they wrote, as far as I'm concerned.
02:38That if that's true, and if this test is legit, that does raise a question, right?
02:46Well, and by the way, combined...
02:48I don't know, but have either one of you ever given birth?
02:50I'm just curious.
02:51I'm guessing the answer is no, because I've sat through many a sonogram where they tried to determine the correct age of the baby, when the baby was going to be born.
03:06And now, the Innocence Project, with their medical degree, is telling me that the doctors at the time, Lacey's doctor, her OB-GYN, was wrong, and they're right 20 years later.
03:22Okay, good.
03:23You tell that to a jury.
03:25Let's see what happens.
03:26We should stress, again, it's the LA Innocence Project that has presented this evidence.
03:31But, yeah, very clearly, Nancy is not buying it.
03:35I know she was referring to a sonogram there, which is not the technology of the testing that the LA Innocence Project is referring to.
03:43There is one, I think, and this came out in our morning meeting this morning, there's one flaw in this, which is sometimes a fetus can actually keep living after the mother dies.
03:56And if that's the case, it could have been Lacey was murdered on the 24th, theoretically, and that the baby didn't die until the 28th.
04:06I mean, that's a possibility.
04:07I would guess the state would say that.
04:11Some of the other things that the LA Innocence Project presented has to do with DNA testing that was not done.
04:16And, again, the overarching theme they have is that the police did not pursue other avenues.
04:25There were three burglaries around her block in the 24 hours around the time she went missing.
04:31There were two people who were caught, and there was also a van that people in the neighborhood saw.
04:37And these two people who were caught, who confessed, said that Lacey...
04:43Confessed to the robberies.
04:44Confessed to the robberies, said that Lacey Peterson had confronted them.
04:49If that's true, that would have been after Scott went fishing.
04:53The other thing is that van was burnt up, and there was a mattress inside with blood on it.
04:59Now, the blood was crudely tested with DNA testing, and at least according to Nancy, it returned that it was a male, which wouldn't have been consistent with Lacey's blood.
05:14But what the Innocence Project is saying, LA Innocence Project, is that there would have been more sophisticated DNA testing they could have done to establish if it was her.
05:25So I don't know how this is going to go.
05:27DeJuan from Alabama, this is a sad situation.
05:32This is really a sad situation.
05:34I can understand people who might take the stance of Nancy, and no matter how gruesome or how upset you might be at a situation like this,
05:46I think with what they're presenting, it's worth looking into.
05:53I'm a father of two, and I can only imagine being sent to prison for something like this, something that I did not do.
06:04So overall, this is just a sad situation.
06:07If it's him, let him stay where he is.
06:09If it's not, then there's somebody out there still loose that killed Lacey and Connor.
06:15So I just really hope that they can get to the bottom of it.
06:18We'll see you next time.
06:29We'll see you next time.
06:31We'll see you next time.