Scott Peterson is denied a new trial in the death of his pregnant wife - NBC News

Convicted murderer Scott Peterson was denied a caller proceedings successful the 2002 decease of his large wife, Laci Peterson, a justice ruled Tuesday.

The determination comes much than a twelvemonth aft the California Supreme Court ordered Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo to see whether juror misconduct denied Peterson a just trial.

A memorial to Laci Peterson successful 2003 extracurricular the location Laci shared with her hubby Scott Peterson successful Modesto, Calif. Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP file

Peterson's squad had argued that Juror 7, a pistillate named Richelle Nice, had been untruthful and hid details of her idiosyncratic beingness that they said presented a conflict.

Nice was accused of "prejudicial misconduct" due to the fact that she did not disclose that she was the unfortunate of home unit and had sought a restraining bid successful 2000 implicit fears that her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend would harm her unborn baby.

Court documents from Tuesday's decision, obtained by NBC Bay Area, authorities that the tribunal did find that respective of Nice's answers successful a juror questionnaire were "false successful definite respects" but said they were not "motivated by pre-existing oregon improper bias" against Peterson.

Her answers "were the effect of a operation of bully religion misunderstanding of the questions and sloppiness successful answering," Massullo wrote.

Nice, who co-wrote a publication astir the lawsuit with different jurors, has denied that she was influenced by her idiosyncratic experiences.

Peterson was convicted of execution successful 2004 and was sentenced the pursuing twelvemonth to death. His sentence was overturned by the California Supreme Court successful 2020. Last year, helium was resentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

Laci Peterson, 27, was 8 months large with their son, Conner, when she was killed successful December 2002, 5 years aft she and Peterson married.

Prosecutors said helium dumped his wife’s assemblage successful the Berkeley Marina connected Christmas Eve and tried to screen up the transgression by making it look arsenic if she was missing, according to online tribunal records. Her assemblage washed ashore later. Peterson's attorneys person argued that she was killed aft stumbling upon a burglary.