Danny Masterson’s legal team filed a habeas corpus petition Monday to vacate his two rape convictions and subsequent 30-years to life prison sentence. In documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Masterson cites nearly a dozen instances of ineffective counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and judicial bias. Additionally, Masterson claimed the Los Angeles Police Department investigation into the […]
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Scott Peterson asks for murder conviction to be tossed, citing ‘substantial new evidence’
Lawyers for Scott Peterson filed a petition on Monday which they say contains evidence showing the 52-year-old didn’t murder his unborn son and wife in 2002. The Los Angeles Innocence Project, which has taken on Peterson’s case, filed a writ of habeas corpus on Monday which the group claimed in a press release contains “substantial […]