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In October 2022, Peterson was moved off San Quentin's death row, and transferred to ]Mule Creek State Prison
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in Ione, California.
On December 20, 2022, Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo rejected Peterson's request for a new trial, in which he accused Juror No. 7, Richelle Nice, of committing misconduct when she lied about her own history of domestic abuse during jury selection, claiming that this tainted the jury. Massullo concluded that there was no evidence to support this accusation, explaining that Nice did not intentionally conceal this information with the motive to stay on the jury, nor appeared vengeful toward Peterson in letters she later wrote him in the prison, writing, "The Court concludes that Juror No. 7’s responses were not motivated by pre-existing or improper bias against eterson but instead were the result of a combination of good faith misunderstanding of the questions and sloppiness in answering." Peterson still had the legal option of appealing her ruling.
Media
Documentary media about the case
* In 2004, E! aired an episode of ''The E! True Hollywood Story
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'' on the case.
* In 2007, Court TV
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covered the case with a documentary titled ''Scott Peterson: A Deadly Game''.
* In 2010, the Peterson case was the topic of the eponymous premiere episode of Investigation Discovery
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's '' True Crime with Aphrodite Jones''.
* In 2015, the series ''Murder Made Me Famous'' covered the story in its second episode, which premiered August 22. It re-aired in 2017 on the American cable channel Reelz
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as ''Scott Peterson: What Happened?''
* In April 2017, '' Crime Junkie Podcast'' produced two episodes detailing Peterson's murder.
* On April 21, 2017, the NBC news magazine ''Dateline
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'' aired the two-hour special, ''The Laci Peterson Story: A Dateline Investigation''.
*In May 2017, the Peterson case was the main focus of "Notorious: Scott Peterson", the Season 20 premiere of the Oxygen TV series ''Snapped
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''.
* In June 2017, ABC
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aired a two-hour documentary on the case titled ''Truth and Lies: The Murder of Laci Peterson''.
* In July 2017, HLN aired a two-hour program on the case titled ''How It Really Happened''.
* In August 2017, the case was covered in A&E's six part series, ''The Murder of Laci Peterson''.
* In November 2017, Investigation Discovery aired a two-hour documentary titled ''Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery''.
* In December 2018, the case was discussed on the talk show '' Dr. Phil''.
* In May 2021, the case was covered in the '' 48 Hours'' episode "Scott Peterson: Case in Question".
* In May 2021, the case was covered in the ''20/20
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'' episode "One Last Chance".
Portrayals of Scott Peterson
* In 2004, Peterson was played by Dean Cain
Dean George Cain ( Tanaka; born July 31, 1966) is an American actor. From 1993 to 1997, he played Clark Kent / Superman in the TV series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. Cain was the host of ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' and ...
in '' The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story''.
* In 2005, Peterson was portrayed by Nathan Anderson in the TV movie, ''Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution''.
* Although the case had been compared to the plot of Gillian Flynn
Gillian Schieber Flynn (; born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels, '' Sharp Objects'' (2006), '' Dark Places'' (2009), and '' Gone Girl'' (2012), which ar ...
's 2012 novel '' Gone Girl'', Flynn refuted the notion her book was inspired by the Petersons, saying that although she saw parallels between the two, she made a point not to rely on any specific true account for her fiction.[ Rather, her portrayal of her characters as out-of-work writers was derived from her own experience being laid off from her job as a writer for '']Entertainment Weekly
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''.
* Peterson was mentioned in Episode 71 of the crime drama ''Cold Case
A cold case is a crime, or a suspected crime, that has not yet been fully resolved and is not the subject of a current criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or re ...
'', "The War at Home". In the episode, Philadelphia Police Detective Will Jefferies wonders if a man named Geoff Taylor murdered his wife, Dana, commenting that he may have "pulled a Scott Peterson."
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References
External links
*Kim, Eun Kyung (August 15, 2017)
"Scott Peterson breaks silence on wife's murder in death row phone call"
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