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Tom Sandoval sure has a way with words, doesn’t he?

Scott Peterson will now be able to live a long life — behind bars, that is.

Is there a chance that Scott Peterson could be set free? His sister-in-law certainly seems to think so based on evidence she claims has been “ignored” all this time.

Scott Peterson is among multiple California inmates, including other convicted murders, who have received COVID-19 unemployment benefits in recent months, prosecutors have found. The unemployment claim filed on Peterson was found during a fraud investigation by a group of state and federal prosecutors, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Convicted killer Scott Peterson will remain in California’s San Quentin State Prison as a judge weighs whether or not he’ll get a retrial in connection with the 2004 murders of his pregnant wife and their unborn son. There was a chance the judge could have sent him to the San Mateo County Jail to make it easier for his attorneys to meet with him.

Convicted murderer Scott Peterson appeared in a San Mateo,  Calif. court via video conference on Friday when he spoke briefly to the judge and waived his right to a speedy trial, effectively pushing his court date back to January 2021. “Yes, your honor,” Peterson told the judge when asked if he was indeed waiving the right to the expedited proceedings.

Scott Peterson’s 2004 murder convictions for his pregnant wife, Laci, and unborn son, , are to be reexamined.The court ordered, on Wednesday, October 14, that the case get sent back to the San Mateo County Superior Court to determine whether or not Peterson, 47, should receive a new trial on the grounds that a juror “committed prejudicial misconduct by not disclosing her prior involvement with other legal proceedings, including but not limited to being the victim of a crime,” according to

Scott Peterson's family is grateful the California Supreme Court ordered a second look at his conviction for killing his pregnant wife and unborn child, his sister-in-law told Fox News on Thursday. The court on Wednesday sent Peterson’s case back to San Mateo County Superior Court after determining that a juror committed "prejudicial misconduct.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a second look at Scott Peterson’s conviction for killing his pregnant wife and unborn son, less than two months after it overturned his death penalty. The court sent the case back to San Mateo County Superior Court to determine whether Peterson should receive a new trial, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The California Supreme Court has overturned Scott Peterson’s death sentence for the 2002 killing of his 27-year-old wife Laci, who was eight months pregnant with their son Connor. While his 2005 first degree murder conviction for both his wife and unborn son still stands, on Aug.

convicted by a jury for the first-degree murder of his pregnant wife and the second-degree murder of their unborn son following Laci Peterson’s 2002 disappearance from her home in Modesto. At the time, prosecutors said that Scott Peterson had “strangled or smothered” Laci, wrapped her in a blue tarp, drove her body out to the San Francisco Bay, attached concrete weights to her body and dumped her into the water.