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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Innocence Project has submitted new evidence in

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Speaker 1: a bid to overturn Scott Peterson's conviction. In their filing,

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Speaker 1: they assert that Peterson, who was found guilty in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and four of murdering his wife Lacy and their

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Speaker 1: unborn child, Connor, was deprived of his rights to due

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Speaker 1: process and a fair trial due to the prosecution's destruction

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Speaker 1: of crucial evidence that could have exonerated him. The petition

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Speaker 1: introduces new evidence that was unavailable during the trial, quote

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Speaker 1: bolstering the petition's claims of innocence and demonstrating that he

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Speaker 1: was wrongfully convicted. The document states this new information significantly

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Speaker 1: undermines the prosecution's circumstantial case against the petitioner and reveals

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Speaker 1: that the jury was influenced by misleading evidence, including inaccurate

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Speaker 1: scientific findings. The claim says. John sonogo chair of the

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Speaker 1: board for the La Innocence Project, says they believe the

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Speaker 1: new information could lead to a reversal of Peterson's conviction. Well,

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Speaker 1: we do believe that the evidence that we are producing

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Speaker 1: in this particular filing should lead to his exoneration proof

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Speaker 1: of his innocence. Among the new evidence presented in the

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Speaker 1: filings are details concerning a burglary that occurred near the

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Speaker 1: Peterson residence around the time Lacey disappeared. The new submissions

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Speaker 1: also encompassed quote, advanced scientific and medical research, witness testimonies,

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Speaker 1: an additional documentation regarding the Modesto Police Department's involvement in

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Speaker 1: the investigation. The petition further argues that the initial determination

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Speaker 1: of Connor's the unborn child's date of death was erroneous,

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Speaker 1: suggesting that he was alive for at least an additional

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Speaker 1: week quote. What particularly caught my attention was the application

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Speaker 1: of fetal biometry, which is fundamentally crucial. Senego explained, this

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Speaker 1: was one of the main elements we introduced as scientific

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Speaker 1: evidence to clarify the actual date of Connor's death. Last October,

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Speaker 1: a judge in San Mateo County allowed Peterson's legal team

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Speaker 1: access to previously undisclosed evidence that could validate their allegations

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Speaker 1: of trial irregularities and potential mishandling of evidence. The La

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Speaker 1: Innocence Project requested over six hundred pieces of evidence, but

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Speaker 1: was granted access to only about thirty six. Peterson received

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Speaker 1: a death sentence in March twenty twenty five, but in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty the California Supreme Court overturned that sentence after

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Speaker 1: discovering that potential jurors had been improperly removed. The following year,

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Speaker 1: he was re sentenced to life in prison without the

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Speaker 1: possibility of parole or primate justice. News after this and

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Speaker 1: now to Utah, where a seven year old boy who

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Speaker 1: wants to be a truck driver when he grows up

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Speaker 1: got some early practice in on Sunday morning when he

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Speaker 1: took his little sister on a drive to McDonald's while

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Speaker 1: their mom was asleep. Whitney Bush, a single mom from Clearfield, Utah,

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Speaker 1: told KTVX that she had checked on her children early

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Speaker 1: in the morning and returned to bed. Hours later, police

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Speaker 1: came to her door to inform her that her vehicle

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Speaker 1: and two of her children were missing. I absolutely had

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Speaker 1: my heart and my stomach, the mother said, I had

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Speaker 1: no idea what was going on. Around eight am, Ogden

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Speaker 1: police received reports of a reckless driver and began pursuing

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Speaker 1: the vehicle. They quickly realized the driver was a child

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Speaker 1: and disengaged pursuit to avoid further risk. The car soon

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Speaker 1: crashed into a parking strip, and police found both the

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Speaker 1: driver and his five year old sister unharmed. Bush acknowledged

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Speaker 1: that her son had previously exhibited behavioral challenges, but that

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Speaker 1: an escalation this extreme was a I don't think anyone

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Speaker 1: expects to wake up and find their seven year old

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Speaker 1: has taken the car for a joy ride. She said

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Speaker 1: the boy was planning to go to McDonald's and even

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Speaker 1: brought along some money. Although he reportedly passed several McDonald's

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Speaker 1: along the way, police say he was in a world

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Speaker 1: of his own and probably didn't even realize he had

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Speaker 1: passed his restaurant of choice. Bush acknowledges her son's determination.

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Speaker 1: He's got a family full of truck drivers. He's going

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Speaker 1: to be one when he grows up, he says. As

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Speaker 1: for now, he may not get that opportunity. As his

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Speaker 1: mother says, he's crowned for life. For the latest crime

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