On her second day of testimony Monday in a hearing on Peterson’s quest for a new trial, Richelle Nice broke into tears when asked about 17 handwritten letters she sent to the man she helped s…
REDWOOD CITY — The juror whose testimony could overturn Scott Peterson’s murder conviction regrets she ever wrote to him in prison.
“What happened that night Scott?” she wrote in August 2005. “What pushed you to the limit, where you felt like you had to kill someone who not only loved you so much, but was carring a part of you inside of her?” Laci’s mother, Sharon Rocha, and brother, Brent Rocha, sat in the court’s front row, several seats away from Peterson’s sister-in-law, Janey Peterson, and other family members.
When it came to her own history of domestic violence – the linchpin to Peterson’s efforts for a new trial – she told Peterson’s lawyer that she barely thought of it.When she filled out a jury questionnaire before the start of the trial, she never mentioned that her boyfriend had been convicted of battery or that she had obtained a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend who kicked in her front door.
As she had testified on Friday, she said she was the one who had hit her boyfriend – “I believe in his face somewhere,” she testified Monday – after what was likely an argument about him cheating on her. She wasn’t aware that he had pleaded guilty to an abuse charge, she said, explaining that their relationship was “complicated.”
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