Michael Peterson Pleads Guilty!
Roberta Glass True Crime Report
Roberta Glass
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🗓️ 27 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
An Alford plea, is legally a guilty plea. The defendant maintains their innocence while acknowledging the State had enough evidence to secure a conviction.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Robert |
| 0:13.4 | Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime. |
| 0:23.6 | From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record. |
| 0:36.6 | Okay, everybody, We are live and boy, do I have a fun show for you today. |
| 0:47.8 | Something I've been wanting to do for a while looking at the Alford plea hearing of Michael Peterson, someone we haven't talked about on this channel in quite a while. |
| 0:59.0 | On February 24th, 2017, Michael Peterson pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the fatal beating he gave his wife, Kathleen Hunt-Atwater Peterson. |
| 1:16.8 | He pled guilty via an Alford plea, which is a guilty plea that allows the defendant to maintain their innocence, |
| 1:25.9 | while at the same time acknowledging the state had |
| 1:29.8 | enough evidence to convict them. Peterson was convicted of the murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson, |
| 1:38.7 | on October 10, 2003. And in 2011, Peter's conviction, Peterson's conviction was vacated on a |
| 1:53.6 | technicality and he was granted a motion for a new trial. The Alford plea is the resolution to Peterson's case. So let's get into it. |
| 2:06.9 | Before we do, let me just take a quick break and I will meet you on the other side of the break. |
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| 3:11.1 | Okay. So before we look at the Alford plea hearing, Michael Peterson did one really interesting interview with Dr. Phil about the Alphir plea and why he took it, |
| 3:18.1 | which is basically the problem for every defendant who's been maintaining their innocence and putting on a big campaign to get out of prison on various different things. |
| 3:26.3 | One was a juror issue that got turned down. |
| 3:32.2 | Various different things were turned down until they hit pay dirt with Dwayne Deaver. |
| 3:38.3 | And the Gregory Taylor case is a case that I would love to get into, which is the case |
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