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Amazing that the daughters of the first woman who died at the bottom of the stairs are standing by him and insist he's innocent.
They also don't believe that their mother was murdered despite the fact that her skull injuries couldn't have been caused by a fall. Apparently they want to keep their heads buried in the sand.
Peterson has plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to time served. He is now free.
For those that don't want to read the article (or it may not be available), he entered an Alford plea and maintained his innocence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea
"whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence. In entering an Alford plea, the defendant admits that the evidence the prosecution has would be likely to persuade a judge or jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."
Please forgive me if I wasn't clear. For those not able/willing to read the link, Peterson did indeed cop an Alford plea. This is not a "confession" per se, but the courts consider it equivalent to a guilty plea. The bottom line is that he's now free on time served.
Please forgive me if I wasn't clear. For those not able/willing to read the link, Peterson did indeed cop an Alford plea. This is not a "confession" per se, but the courts consider it equivalent to a guilty plea. The bottom line is that he's now free on time served.
You were perfectly clear, I was in a hurry and didn't click the link.
For anyone who followed that trial and forgot about it, a new trial has been ordered. Judge Hudson ruled that Duane Deaver, the state's key forensics witness, deliberately and intentionally misled the jury, was biased in his testimony, the science he used to determine his opinion was not valid, that the judge himself should not have qualified Deaver as an expert or allowed his testimony, among other things.
[url=http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/jury-55260-misled-agent.html]SBI agent misled jury in Peterson case | jury, misled, agent - Judge - Burlington Times News[/url]
Right at that moment the Judge should have set Mike free.
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