27 September 2021 :

Scott Peterson will be sentenced to life in prison this fall
Scott Peterson, who spent more than 15 years on death row in the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son, will be sentenced to life in prison this fall, a judge said Wednesday. Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said she wants to sentence Peterson in November before deciding whether he deserves a new trial over alleged juror misconduct. She set an Oct. 6 hearing to set a date for resentencing him to a life term with no chance of parole. The California Supreme Court overturned Peterson's death sentence last year because jurors who personally disagreed with the death penalty but were willing to impose it were improperly dismissed. Prosecutors said they won't seek the death penalty if Peterson gets a new trial. The high court found there was considerable circumstantial evidence incriminating him in the 1st-degree murder of Laci Peterson, 27, who was 8 months pregnant, and the second-degree murder of the boy they planned to name Connor. Prosecutors said Peterson took his wife's body from their Modesto home on Christmas Eve 2002 and dumped her in San Francisco Bay from his fishing boat. The body of his wife and the boy's fetus washed ashore in April 2003.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-plans-sentence-scott-peterson-life-fall-80178349