Hello and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And on today's show, we are going to discuss the Scott Peterson case from a new angle.

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just, you know, the Scott Peterson case, it's a complex one and evokes all the emotions in people. And, you know, the Scott Peterson case is a complex one and evokes all the emotions in people.

And we're not really here to, you know, rehash the entire case.

We're here because there's been some recent developments in the case, very, very significant legal developments.

And so we're first going to do a synopsis of the case, then we're going to talk about what has happened since Scott Peterson was

convicted. There have been a couple different things, a very recent thing involving new evidence,

and then maybe get into, you know know a little bit more about um what this all

means so that's what we're going to be doing today so tests start us off um tell us just in a nutshell

right i'm looking at my quote-unquote synopsis, and if you can believe that I've cut a lot down.

So I'm going to try to do the best that I can with this.

But yeah, so more than 20 years have passed since the murder of Lacey Peterson and her own barn child,

a case that garnered national attention after she initially went

missing in December of 2002. So her husband, Scott Peterson, was convicted of two counts of murder

in 2004 in a controversial decision that was later upheld by the Supreme Court of California.

Peterson's death sentence was commuted to life in prison after several appeals, but he has

remained behind bars despite questions about the circumstantial evidence presented by the

prosecution during the trial.

Twenty years after the original sentencing, however, the Innocence Project, an organization

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