Exonerating the wrongly convicted.
Los Angeles Innocence Project Files Petition Uncovering New Evidence Proving Scott Peterson’s Claims of Innocence
After more than a year of investigation, the Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) has presented new scientific evidence and witness testimony that undermines the prosecution’s case against Scott Peterson. The new evidence is the basis for a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the California Court of Appeal for the First District, filed late Friday, April 18, 2025, seeking to overturn Mr. Peterson’s conviction. (Read the press release.)
We firmly believe the evidence and testimony in this filing will lead to Mr. Peterson’s exoneration.
How we work
Our organization has a team of professionals and experts who follow extensive screening protocols prior to choosing a client. LAIP partners and collaborates with the California Forensic Science Institute and Cal State LA’s School of Criminal Justice & Criminalistics, within the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. Together with students from the school, we test the viability, reliability, and accuracy of evidence that had been used to convict LAIP clients.
Significance of this case in relation to all our cases
We are advocates for truth and justice, no matter who the defendant may be or how controversial the case. We hope attention to this new filing and the anticipated decision by the court to overturn the conviction based on the new facts demonstrate the importance of our work and mission.
Mr. Peterson’s case is just one of the cases LAIP is handling. There are many more victims of wrongful convictions who need support.
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Toward the future of forensic science.
LAIP works in partnership and collaboration with scientists and students at the California Forensic Science Institute (CFSI), led by Dr. Kathy Roberts, and Cal State LA’s School of Criminal Justice & Criminalistics, within the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. CFSI scientists and students collaborate with LAIP attorneys to test the viability, reliability, and accuracy of evidence used to convict LAIP clients.
To heal and protect our communities.
At LAIP, we believe in a criminal legal system that recognizes the inherent dignity of all people. We believe in the possibility of a criminal legal system that is not infected by racial bias and does not criminalize poverty, mental illness, or drug addiction and that seeks to reduce harm, reconcile individuals, address trauma, and rebuild those individuals, communities, and institutions that have been damaged by crime and our society’s response to it.
Join us.
LAIP’s work is possible only due to the generous contribution of Andrew Leander Wilson, who was exonerated in 2017 after spending 32 years imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Join in Andy’s legacy by supporting LAIP today.