Earlier this month, prosecutors announced that they would retry Scott Peterson, who was convicted of the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Connor back in 2004, for the death penalty after the California Supreme Court overturned it back in August citing “significant errors” in the jury selection process.

On Thursday night, Peterson’s former defense attorney tried to accuse prosecutors of targeting him by seeking the death penalty again. Fox Nation host and former special prosecutor Nancy Grace, however, was not having any of it.

Lara Yeretsian, a defense attorney who helped to represent Peterson during his initial trial, said she was not surprised when prosecutors announced on October 23 that they would be seeking the death penalty against the 47 year-old once again.

“I was expecting them to do that. They’d invested a lot of time and energy in getting the conviction and, of course, the death penalty,” Yeretsian told Grace. “I was just surprised at the way they did it.”

The lawyer added that though she believes Peterson is “stone-cold innocent,” she also knew that prosecutors “were going to do everything possible to get Scott, and they’re not just not going to walk away” from the overturned death sentence.

Grace quickly took issue with what Yeretsian was implying.

“Woah, Woah Woah … hold on,” she interrupted. “You think the state was out to get Scott?”

“Well, I mean they’re prosecutors and if they go after somebody, the idea is that they would put them in prison,” Yeretsian responded. “If it’s a murder, they’d want him to go away for life, or get the death penalty.

“But, when you say they’re out to get him … some people would call this seeking justice,” Grace pointed out. “I don’t think they’re out to get anyone like some sort of vendetta, I think they’re out to seek justice to convict the person that committed a double murder.”

“Of course I think they’re out to get him,” Yeretsian replied, adding that  “a defendant, by the way, also deserves justice.”

“I think Laci and Connor deserve justice because the people who really perpetrated this crime should be arrested and tried,” the lawyer asserted, “not the wrong person.”

Peterson was convicted in 2004 of murdering Laci on Christmas Eve of 2002 when she was eight months pregnant with their unborn son Connor. It took five months for them to be found, and after his conviction, Peterson spent fifteen years on death row before his death penalty was overturned.

Earlier this month, the California Supreme Court decided that the conviction should be overturned after it found that a juror committed “prejudicial misconduct” by failing to disclose that she had been involved with previous legal proceedings. Officials claim that juror Richelle Nice, who later wrote a book about the case with other jurors, failed to disclose to prosecutors that she had filed a lawsuit in 2000 trying to get a restraining order against boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend for harassing her while she was pregnant.

It remains to be seen what will happen next in this case.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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