Scott Peterson’s lawyers tried to show Tuesday that along with hiding her past, Richelle Nice sought to get on the trial for “notoriety and financial reasons.”
REDWOOD CITY – When the alternate juror first walked into the deliberations room nearly 18 years ago, she blurted out that Scott Peterson, on trial for the killing of his pregnant wife and unborn son, should “pay for killing the little man,” a former juror in the notorious case testified Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, the judge postponed until March 24 the remainder of the evidentiary hearing that was supposed to end this week, giving Peterson’s lawyers more time to determine whether Nice first discussed a book deal before the trial concluded. The murder convictions in the deaths of Peterson’s wife, Laci, and unborn son they planned to name Conner were upheld, however. Their bodies washed up separately in April 2003 along the Richmond shoreline, close to where Peterson told police he had been fishing the Christmas Eve his wife had vanished. Peterson is now serving life without parole and is housed in a Redwood City jail during his latest appeal. He has appeared in court wearing a red jail suit and shackles every day this week.
Under questioning, Beratlis said that Nice seemed to enjoy the attention she received coming and going from the Redwood City courthouse. The seven-month trial had been moved from Modesto where the Petersons lived because of pretrial publicity.
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