A California judge largely denied a motion by Scott Peterson’s defense team for new or additional DNA testing in his case, as the Los Angeles Innocence Project seeks evidence proving he didn’t murder of his wife and unborn child.
The LA Innocence Project, which took up Scott Peterson’s case last year, had requested 14 items be tested or retested for DNA. On Wednesday, a judge in San Mateo County denied the request for all but one item — the duct tape recovered from the pants of his wife, Laci Peterson, at the time of her autopsy.
An excised portion of that tape was DNA tested in 2003 and shown to have human DNA present but the “DNA was not of an acceptable quality to generate a profile” at that time, the motion stated.
Laci Peterson, who…
