Scott Peterson Will Be Re-Sentenced in Murder of Pregnant Wife: Judge

A California justice said Scott Peterson indispensable beryllium re-sentenced successful the 2002 decease of his large wife.

Judge Anne-Christine Massullo connected Wednesday said the tribunal intends to re-sentence Peterson to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole. Massullo said re-sentencing volition beryllium held successful November, adding this is nary longer a decease punishment case.

Laci Peterson, 27, was 8 months large with their unborn son, Connor, erstwhile she was killed.

Peterson, 48, is being held successful San Quentin State Prison, location of California's decease row. The authorities Supreme Court separately overturned Peterson’s decease condemnation past twelvemonth implicit unrelated faulty juror selection, and prosecutors said they won’t again question to person him executed.

Investigators said that connected Christmas Eve 2002, Peterson dumped the bodies from his sportfishing vessel into San Francisco Bay, wherever they surfaced months later.

The state’s precocious tribunal past twelvemonth said that determination was sizeable circumstantial grounds incriminating Peterson successful the slayings.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.