Scott Peterson: The New Evidence That Could Change Everything — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everyone, I'm Anna Emerson, and this
2. 0:02is Criminally Obsessed. [music] 23 years
3. 0:04later and the case that made so many of
4. 0:06us absolutely obsessed with true crime
5. 0:09is back. And this time the question
6. 0:11isn't whether Scott Peterson was
7. 0:12convicted. It's whether he was convicted
8. 0:15fairly. A brand new two-part A&E
9. 0:18documentary, Scott Peterson: The New
10. 0:20Evidence, is dropping now. And it
11. 0:22follows the Los Angeles Innocence
12. 0:24Project [music] as it argues there's new
13. 0:26evidence that could exonerate Scott
14. 0:28Peterson.
15. 0:29>> It's one of the most famous [music]
16. 0:30cases in this country's history. And now
17. 0:33the Los Angeles Innocence Project is
18. 0:35putting [music] forward new scientific
19. 0:36evidence that suggests that Scott
20. 0:39Peterson is absolutely innocent.
21. 0:41>> Now, let's rewind for a second. On
22. 0:43Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson, eight
23. 0:46months pregnant with her son Conner,
24. 0:48vanished from her home in Modesto,
25. 0:50California. Months later the bodies of
26. 0:52Laci and Conner were recovered on the
27. 0:55shores of the San Francisco Bay. Scott
28. 0:57Peterson was convicted of murdering them
29. 1:00and is serving life in prison. But he's
30. 1:02never stopped insisting
31. 1:04>> [music]
32. 1:04>> he's innocent. Joining me is Chris
33. 1:06Pixley. He's a veteran defense attorney,
34. 1:09ABC [music] News legal analyst, and one
35. 1:11of the experts featured in this A&E
36. 1:13documentary. Chris has followed this
37. 1:15case since day one of [music] Laci's
38. 1:17disappearance.
39. 1:18>> This is the kind of evidence that
40. 1:19changes cases.
41. 1:21>> What's fascinating is he doesn't just
42. 1:23sit in a studio and talk about it. He
43. 1:25takes us [music] back to the scene,
44. 1:27retraces the investigation, and starts
45. 1:29poking holes in the case. Honestly, he
46. 1:32had me questioning things that I thought
47. 1:33I'd settled long ago about [music]
48. 1:35different timelines, 15 new witnesses,
49. 1:38and groundbreaking technology that shows
50. 1:41Laci's body had to have been dumped
51. 1:44[music] from land.
52. 1:45>> If any of them are right, then Scott
53. 1:47Peterson had nothing to do with her
54. 1:48disappearance.
55. 1:49>> Does that mean Scott Peterson is
56. 1:51innocent? No. But it does make you stop
57. 1:53and ask [music] whether every lead was
58. 1:55followed, every assumption was
59. 1:57challenged, and whether the Los Angeles
60. 1:59Innocence Project may have uncovered
61. 2:01something worthy of taking another look.
62. 2:04Be sure to like and subscribe. We're
63. 2:06following all the cases that you're
64. 2:07obsessed with. Now, let's get into it.
65. 2:15Chris, I have to say, like, this is
66. 2:19Can I use the word bombshell? I don't
67. 2:21know. You know,
68. 2:23I'm It's amazing. Like, the work you're
69. 2:25doing on this documentary is really,
70. 2:26really impressive. So, first of all,
71. 2:28like, I really enjoyed it.
72. 2:30>> Do I think that we'll be able to answer
73. 2:31the question whether Scott Peterson is
74. 2:34guilty or innocent?
75. 2:36I think we're going to get a lot closer
76. 2:38than anyone ever has.
77. 2:40>> Do you think he did it?
78. 2:41>> I I think the evidence is um
79. 2:45is really
80. 2:47>> Sorry.
81. 2:47>> overwhelming [laughter] against the
82. 2:48state. No, it's a fair Everyone wants to
83. 2:50ask that question. I I, you know,
84. 2:52the lawyer's answer that no one likes is
85. 2:54the fact that what's being tested here
86. 2:55is whether he received a fair trial. I
87. 2:57have absolutely no hesitation in saying
88. 2:59to you that for the litany of reasons
89. 3:02that we've been able to demonstrate,
90. 3:03thanks to the work of the dedicated
91. 3:05people at the Los Angeles Innocence
92. 3:07Project, it's it's really undeniable. He
93. 3:08didn't
94. 3:09His constitutional rights were violated.
95. 3:11He was deprived of the right to fair
96. 3:13trial. On the question of Did he Did he
97. 3:15do it? 1/3 of all these crimes are
98. 3:17committed by an intimate partner. That
99. 3:19means two out of three times it happens
100. 3:20somebody else is in is involved and
101. 3:22responsible. Um there's a burglary that
102. 3:25happened in the house across the street.
103. 3:27These are tiny little homes with little
104. 3:29front yards. Uh you know, you could
105. 3:31throw a baseball from your front front
106. 3:33porch uh to your neighbor without any
107. 3:36any difficulty at all. And Laci's the
108. 3:38kind of person uh that everyone says
109. 3:40would have confronted someone if she saw
110. 3:42them committing a crime across the
111. 3:43street. So, that that's that's enough
112. 3:46for me to say that
113. 3:48that Scott's deserving of a new trial,
114. 3:49and the the is deserving of a complete
115. 3:51re-examination and that's that's top top
116. 3:54to bottom looking at the state side as
117. 3:56well as the defense side and that's what
118. 3:57we tried to do.
119. 3:58>> What was it like to to delve back into
120. 4:00this? I mean,
121. 4:02this is this is a
122. 4:04this case you had to really go into your
123. 4:06file cabinet in your mind.
124. 4:07>> I've been
125. 4:09an ABC News legal correspondent all
126. 4:11these years. I was at the time of Lacy
127. 4:13Peterson's disappearance.
128. 4:15I you know, I
129. 4:17back then I would I spent my evening on
130. 4:19Larry King Live
131. 4:21going toe-to-toe with Nancy Grace over
132. 4:23this particular case. So I thought that
133. 4:25I knew it.
134. 4:27I really thought I knew the case.
135. 4:29And what the Los Angeles Innocence
136. 4:31Project demonstrated is that I I didn't
137. 4:33know the half of it.
138. 4:36And and and we really wanted to look at
139. 4:38all sides of it. So of course we went
140. 4:39out and and met with independent
141. 4:41experts, some of the best in the
142. 4:42country. And what was amazing about it
143. 4:44is that as groundbreaking as we thought
144. 4:47the new evidence was, when we would meet
145. 4:49with independent experts who had no
146. 4:53no involvement in the case, no dog in
147. 4:55the hunt whatsoever, they would point
148. 4:56out
149. 4:58more things to us than even the LAIP had
150. 5:01had had pled. We tried to look at it
151. 5:02from from the state's side, we tried to
152. 5:04look at it from Scott Peterson's side.
153. 5:07In almost every case when we would sit
154. 5:09with experts and they would point things
155. 5:11out to us that weren't in the in even in
156. 5:13the filing, it supported what the Los
157. 5:15Angeles Innocence Project was saying
158. 5:17about the case, which is that you know,
159. 5:19the new evidence changes the narrative
160. 5:21completely.
161. 5:22>> How did the LA Innocence Project get
162. 5:24involved? Do you know?
163. 5:25>> First of all, they were contacted by the
164. 5:26Peterson family, but
165. 5:29the LA Innocence Project gets
166. 5:32requests
167. 5:35by the thousands on a daily basis from
168. 5:38prisoners and prisoners' families who
169. 5:40want their cases reviewed. And they only
170. 5:42take the most meritorious cases and they
171. 5:44only take cases that they believe meet
172. 5:46the California actual innocence
173. 5:48standard. They are So, they only take
174. 5:50cases that they believe that they can
175. 5:51prove actual innocence in. So, for them,
176. 5:54it's one thing that for them to get the
177. 5:55request to take the Peterson case, you
178. 5:58know, with this maligned figure, it's
179. 6:00another thing for them to go out and do
180. 6:02a 2-year investigation and come to the
181. 6:04conclusion which they absolutely believe
182. 6:06in in his innocence.
183. 6:07>> Just a fresh set of eyes looking at at
184. 6:10cases at old cases can can move the
185. 6:14needle.
186. 6:14>> When you talk about a fresh set of eyes,
187. 6:16you're so right because
188. 6:18um one of the things that the series
189. 6:19shows
190. 6:20among many is that, you know, there's
191. 6:22this burglary that occurs across the
192. 6:24street from the Peterson home. People
193. 6:26have from time to time
194. 6:28heard a bit about it. What they don't
195. 6:30know is how how the evidence from that
196. 6:34crime was physically destroyed by the
197. 6:36police.
198. 6:38Uh what they don't know is that while
199. 6:39the police said immediately from the
200. 6:41jump it's unrelated to Laci Peterson's
201. 6:43disappearance, this burglary occurred on
202. 6:45December 26th, the day after Christmas,
203. 6:47she went missing the day before.
204. 6:49Uh we're able to show live interviews
205. 6:53being conducted
206. 6:55uh in by local [clears throat] media
207. 6:56with news trucks up and down the street
208. 6:58the morning early morning of in the dark
209. 7:01of December 26th. You couldn't get a
210. 7:04parking place in across the street from
211. 7:06the Peterson's house because there were
212. 7:07news trucks there. And if you came to
213. 7:09haul out of that home uh safes with cash
214. 7:12in them and all kinds of other household
215. 7:15items that were stolen from the Medina
216. 7:17home, you wouldn't have been able to do
217. 7:19it in front of all the news crew. So,
218. 7:21that's the kind of thing that a fresh
219. 7:22set of eyes
220. 7:24brings out and then everybody says,
221. 7:25"Well, yeah, of course." Okay, so that
222. 7:27crime didn't happen
223. 7:29uh on the day after Christmas, it
224. 7:30happened the day before Christmas and
225. 7:32that's the day Laci went missing. Um you
226. 7:35know, it's the same the same is true
227. 7:36with the eyewitnesses who
228. 7:38um we've heard about through the years,
229. 7:40but the police didn't investigate
230. 7:41because it didn't fit their theory.
231. 7:43>> And you have new information coming out
232. 7:45in this documentary about how the the
233. 7:48eyewitness accounts specifically were
234. 7:51handled.
235. 7:52Um especially considering that there
236. 7:55could have there was a burglary across
237. 7:58the street.
238. 7:59Now we've got we got new timelines, but
239. 8:02now there's like a whole new way of
240. 8:04looking at it.
241. 8:05>> There were 15 eyewitnesses who saw her
242. 8:07walking her dog on the day of her
243. 8:09disappearance. Um
244. 8:11almost all of them placed her walking
245. 8:13her dog at a time after Scott Peterson
246. 8:15had already left for the San Francisco
247. 8:17Bay. If any of them are right, then
248. 8:20Scott Peterson had nothing to do with
249. 8:21her disappearance. One of the things
250. 8:22that you learn immediately is that these
251. 8:24eyewitnesses um
252. 8:27they weren't looking for attention. Most
253. 8:29of them recognized in the early days
254. 8:31after her disappearance that
255. 8:33witnesses who were stepping forward, who
256. 8:35had seen her or had seen the dog, were
257. 8:38getting really bad treatment in in the
258. 8:40media. It it it almost immediately
259. 8:42didn't fit the media narrative,
260. 8:45um and that's because
261. 8:46uh the Modesto police were have giving a
262. 8:48daily press conference, and they were
263. 8:50talking about things like
264. 8:52uh um the search warrant that they were
265. 8:54executing on the Peterson home, which
266. 8:56they made sound in the very early days
267. 8:58as though it was producing all kinds of
268. 9:01evidence for them. It only came around
269. 9:04at the time of trial that we that we
270. 9:05learned, no, they didn't get any
271. 9:07evidence from any of the search warrants
272. 9:09that they executed on the home. We were
273. 9:10led to believe very early on, the
274. 9:13public, that this case is it it
275. 9:16is really pointing itself towards Scott
276. 9:19Peterson. And so eyewitnesses weren't
277. 9:21comfortable, and these are just salt of
278. 9:22the earth people. So to go meet with
279. 9:24them and to talk with these people about
280. 9:27what they saw, um it it was fascinating.
281. 9:31>> Well, so now we get to get into the
282. 9:33nitty-gritty of this a little bit,
283. 9:35Chris, because these notes they were
284. 9:37notes that when
285. 9:39um Scott Peterson actually launched his
286. 9:41boat into the water and and who knew
287. 9:44about this boat and how this boat came
288. 9:46into play for the prosecution.
289. 9:49Yet now you're going to be able to shine
290. 9:51some light on who actually knew about
291. 9:54this boat to begin with, which I guess
292. 9:55was a major sticking point in the first
293. 9:57trial.
294. 9:58>> It is and you and you hit on something
295. 10:00that not a lot of people are hitting on,
296. 10:01which is
297. 10:02that this storyline that the prosecution
298. 10:05maintained throughout the entire case.
299. 10:07They talked about it in their opening
300. 10:09and they talked about it in the closing.
301. 10:10They said, "Look, Scott Peterson
302. 10:12secretly purchased this boat. It was not
303. 10:15known to Lacy's family. It was not known
304. 10:16to Lacy and he and he kept it secret
305. 10:19because he intended to use it to for the
306. 10:21commission of this this crime."
307. 10:24And only in the in the past couple of
308. 10:26years, out of nowhere, have these notes
309. 10:29that were taken from the Peterson home
310. 10:32during one of the the executions of one
311. 10:34of the search warrants, these posted
312. 10:36notes
313. 10:37with handwriting from phone calls to
314. 10:39marine supply stores
315. 10:42pricing things like anchors for for a
316. 10:45boat. The state,
317. 10:47though they have no explanation for why
318. 10:49they never turned that that evidence
319. 10:51over to the defense for all of these
320. 10:52years, argues that even if it's Lacy's
321. 10:56handwriting on those notes, while she
322. 10:58had an nautical theme for for Connor's
323. 11:02bedroom and that's all that that is
324. 11:05is is related to. She wasn't buying
325. 11:10live weighted anchors to hang over the
326. 11:12crib. It It makes no sense to make that
327. 11:15kind of argument. Actual physical
328. 11:18anchors, the 50-lb type. You don't that
329. 11:20they don't belong in the corner of
330. 11:24a toddler or baby's room. They don't
331. 11:27have any place around children. They've
332. 11:29got sharp edges and all the rest.
333. 11:31But it was something that was needed for
334. 11:33Scott Peterson's boat. Um, and that that
335. 11:36evidence of course was not shared with
336. 11:37the defense. Um, the state made this
337. 11:40argument throughout the entire case. It
338. 11:42was it was part of their mens rea
339. 11:43argument that this
340. 11:45this was intentional and pre-planned.
341. 11:47Um,
342. 11:48uh, and and that's just all blown up,
343. 11:51but it takes forensic document examiners
344. 11:53which I've used
345. 11:55many times in my cases, um, to to look
346. 11:58at these notes and be able to make the
347. 12:00comparisons in the handwriting. And the
348. 12:01comparisons here are are are stark. Um,
349. 12:05the differences between Scott Peterson's
350. 12:07handwriting, he writes in all capital
351. 12:08little blocks, writes in this tiny
352. 12:10little print, and Lacy Peterson's
353. 12:12handwriting which uh, which the hand our
354. 12:15own independent handwriting analyst was
355. 12:16able to compare to samples of her
356. 12:19writing. Um, they jump off the page.
357. 12:21It's it's it's her writing and so, um,
358. 12:23it's evidence that she knew about the
359. 12:25boat.
360. 12:26>> The technology that you were able to use
361. 12:29in this case as far as where they
362. 12:32believe Lacy would Lacy's body would
363. 12:36have been put into the bay.
364. 12:38Um, talk to me about why this is going
365. 12:43to completely change the way we look at
366. 12:46this case.
367. 12:47>> We now have modern science. It didn't
368. 12:49exist at the time. Delft 3D technology.
369. 12:52We're able to analyze the wave patterns.
370. 12:55We have historical information and
371. 12:57ultimately the new science shows that
372. 13:00Lacy Peterson's body was likely placed
373. 13:01in the bay from a land based location,
374. 13:04not anywhere near where Scott Peterson
375. 13:05was. And so, you
376. 13:08um, it demonstrates that the that the
377. 13:10testimony was false, but uh, it also
378. 13:13wrecks the prosecution's theory that
379. 13:15Scott
380. 13:17took her out on a boat and dumped her.
381. 13:19Expert testimony uh, in criminal trials
382. 13:22is critically important. I One of the
383. 13:24things that it does for the jury is it
384. 13:27gives them permission to
385. 13:29arrive at the conclusion that their
386. 13:32their guts telling them to arrive at.
387. 13:34So, if you have great reservations about
388. 13:37Scott Peterson on the basis of his his
389. 13:40short-term 2 and 1/2-week relationship
390. 13:42with Amber Frey, and if you actually
391. 13:43think that that motivated him to murder
392. 13:46his wife and his unborn child, an expert
393. 13:49witness coming along and saying Lacy
394. 13:52Peterson's body was placed in the bay at
395. 13:55the exact location that Scott Peterson
396. 13:57was
397. 13:58uh south of Brooks Island on the day of
398. 14:00her disappearance, that matters to a
399. 14:03jury. Of course, the state's expert was
400. 14:06asked to look at where the bodies were
401. 14:07found on the Richmond shoreline and
402. 14:10reverse engineer it, backtrack to where
403. 14:12they would have been placed in the bay
404. 14:13using tides. The state brought a
405. 14:15hydrologist expert to that question.
406. 14:18That's the right kind of expert, but in
407. 14:20that space that he was asked to do that
408. 14:22analysis
409. 14:24uh with the technology that was
410. 14:25available at the time, he couldn't.
411. 14:27>> Well, so there was a level of this is
412. 14:30our guy, this is the story we're going
413. 14:33with. You believe that level of
414. 14:35confirmation bias just never left the
415. 14:38case?
416. 14:39>> You saw it in the series, I think we um
417. 14:42we talked to Mark Godsey, and he's an
418. 14:44expert in confirmation bias, and he's
419. 14:46written about this case. And I asked
420. 14:48one particular question
421. 14:50where he and I were sort of in a debate,
422. 14:52which is
423. 14:53at some point when you start destroying
424. 14:55evidence. Um and you're criminal
425. 14:57investigator who believes you wear the
426. 14:58white hat, you believe you've got your
427. 15:00man, you believe that this uh
428. 15:02confounding evidence that's inconvenient
429. 15:05and doesn't and points away from your
430. 15:06guy, um
431. 15:08it can't shouldn't be relied upon, but
432. 15:10at some point when you start destroying
433. 15:11that evidence or withholding it from
434. 15:13from the defense, which you know to be
435. 15:15illegal, you have to be you have to know
436. 15:18what you're doing. And Godsey says, "No,
437. 15:20this is how strong confirmation bias
438. 15:22is." Then they believe that they're
439. 15:23doing the right thing right down to
440. 15:25withholding of exculpatory evidence. It
441. 15:28was really fascinating to have that that
442. 15:30discussion that you can be that your
443. 15:32mental approach to a case can really be
444. 15:34hijacked by confirmation bias. And that
445. 15:36seems to have really And And you have to
446. 15:38remember And And in fairness to the
447. 15:40Modesto police, they were under the
448. 15:42spotlight.
449. 15:432002 and to And early 2003 is nothing
450. 15:47like it is the world is today. Um
451. 15:50television news and print news was all
452. 15:53that existed. What you do to your giant
453. 15:57audience didn't exist at the time. And
454. 15:59so they were under the spotlight with
455. 16:01television cameras and newspapers
456. 16:03reporting on their every move every day.
457. 16:05And so that that adds an enormous amount
458. 16:07of additional pressure on top of the
459. 16:09aggrieved family and everyone else
460. 16:11wanting you to get your your man. So you
461. 16:13understand how it happens.
462. 16:14>> But is there any other evidence right
463. 16:16now that you think is is going to really
464. 16:18move the needle
465. 16:19and get and and possibly get Peterson a
466. 16:22new trial?
467. 16:23>> There's There are two important pieces
468. 16:25of new scientific evidence. One of them
469. 16:27we talked about in terms of where Laci
470. 16:28Peterson's body was actually placed in
471. 16:30the bay. The other one has to do with
472. 16:32Conner Peterson's body. It's separated
473. 16:35from Laci Peterson's body. There was a
474. 16:37storm on April 14th. Uh her her body and
475. 16:40Conner's bodies were found a couple of
476. 16:42days later on the shoreline. Uh
477. 16:45the science that that existed at the
478. 16:47time
479. 16:48with ultrasound and cross-sectional
480. 16:50studies that was used to try to date and
481. 16:54age a child um
482. 16:56was so removed from the longitudinal
483. 17:00studies, the gold standard science that
484. 17:02exists today for determining the age of
485. 17:05a child in in utero. And what all of the
486. 17:08experts say is that the likelihood is
487. 17:11that Conner Peterson
488. 17:13died, meaning that Laci Peterson died,
489. 17:16sometime between 4 days and 2 weeks
490. 17:19after Laci went missing. If Conner
491. 17:22Peterson is still alive
492. 17:24after December 24th and Scott Peterson's
493. 17:27not involved in Laci's disappearance.
494. 17:29And so these are I mean
495. 17:31this is the kind of evidence that
496. 17:33changes cases forever.
497. 17:35>> Well, Chris, I mean what is it going to
498. 17:37take to get him a new trial? I mean
499. 17:39is is that is that where we're headed? I
500. 17:41mean
501. 17:42do you believe that? Do you believe that
502. 17:44that's possible?
503. 17:45>> New science
504. 17:47is critical to our fair trial rights. It
505. 17:51will continue up the chain to the
506. 17:53California Supreme Court or and and
507. 17:55potentially to the federal courts. This
508. 17:57evidence, what I'm saying is it's going
509. 18:00to be reviewed and it's going to be
510. 18:01reviewed at at the highest level. And
511. 18:04and the evidence that the Los Angeles
512. 18:05Innocence Project has already brought to
513. 18:06bear. It hasn't even been reviewed by a
514. 18:08court yet. It it it's going to change
515. 18:11the narrative.
516. 18:12>> Um is it going to change the public
517. 18:14opinion? I mean and who I mean and and
518. 18:16who cares? I mean like I understand like
519. 18:18this was we're not trying this in the
520. 18:20court of public opinion, but I mean you
521. 18:22have to admit like this is one of this
522. 18:24guy really became one of the most hated
523. 18:26husbands in the world.
524. 18:28>> I represented Eric and Lyle Menendez
525. 18:31for 10 years of my career
526. 18:34and one of the things when I was
527. 18:36handling Eric's habeas petition, one of
528. 18:39the things that he and I talked about
529. 18:40consistently was the fact that it was
530. 18:42going to be very hard to get relief
531. 18:45without changing the narrative
532. 18:47surrounding
533. 18:48his case and Lyle's case. Fast forward a
534. 18:52decade later and Ryan Murphy
535. 18:55in his Monster series covers Eric and
536. 18:58Lyle Menendez's case, changes the
537. 19:01narrative and now they're parole
538. 19:03eligible. So
539. 19:04it I think it does start.
540. 19:07What lawyers do is incredibly important.
541. 19:10But um, you know, it's ultimately human
542. 19:12beings. It's the public, uh, it and and
543. 19:15it's, uh, judges and and members of the
544. 19:19public that make the final decision
545. 19:21about these cases. And so, that's why,
546. 19:22you know, this this series, I think, is
547. 19:24the first step in really changing the
548. 19:25narrative. Uh, it happened in the
549. 19:27Menendez case. I, you know, I worked
550. 19:29that case for a long time. I think this
551. 19:32series is the first step and and it's
552. 19:34all based on the work of the Los Angeles
553. 19:35Innocence Project. But, um,
554. 19:37uh, I think it's it's going I I think
555. 19:40the narrative is changing.
556. 19:41>> Do you believe that whoever is
557. 19:43responsible,
558. 19:45um, if it isn't Scott Peterson, will be
559. 19:47held responsible for what happened to to
560. 19:50Lacy and her her son?
561. 19:52>> Yeah, I I think that the the new science
562. 19:55is pointing, uh, all of us,
563. 19:58uh, more and more narrowly toward what
564. 20:00actually happened in that
565. 20:03that 12 to 24-hour
566. 20:05period of time. Um, so, I I
567. 20:08not only do I think that uh, Scott
568. 20:11Peterson's rights are uh, are going to
569. 20:14be fairly reviewed,
570. 20:16um,
571. 20:17but I and and the evidence in this case
572. 20:19fairly reviewed. But, I I think that
573. 20:22what's happening here matters for all of
574. 20:23us. It matters that we can count on
575. 20:27police and prosecutors to turn over
576. 20:30every stone in their investigation. Um,
577. 20:34the idea that in in this case, um,
578. 20:37evidence was excluded and withheld and
579. 20:40in some cases destroyed is something
580. 20:42that doesn't just matter for Scott
581. 20:44Peterson, it matters for for all of us
582. 20:46because, uh, you know, but for the grace
583. 20:48of God, any one of us can find ourselves
584. 20:50in that situation. So, whether you like
585. 20:52Scott Peterson or you don't like Scott
586. 20:54Peterson, whether you think he's guilty
587. 20:55or not, the larger question of whether
588. 20:57he got a fair trial, whether this was a
589. 20:58fair investigation, whether confirmation
590. 21:00bias invaded all of it, um, you know,
591. 21:03whether police destroyed and withheld
592. 21:05evidence that that they should not have
593. 21:06is something that everyone should be
594. 21:08interested in.
595. 21:09>> Drop a comment below. I want to hear
596. 21:11what you're thinking about this case.
597. 21:12You know, we have been mulling it over
598. 21:15and discussing it for 23 years. Do you
599. 21:18feel like this new evidence is worthy of
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