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Woman Charged with Benefits Scam Using Scott Peterson, Cary Stayner Names

SACRAMENTO — A California woman was charged with using the names of convicted killers, including Scott Peterson, to collect more than $145,000 in fraudulent unemployment benefits — a small but headline-grabbing part of more than $20 billion stolen in similar scams during the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said Wednesday. Brandy Iglesias...

Judge Says Scott Peterson Will Stay at San Quentin as Retrial Explored

SACRAMENTO — No one outside of San Quentin State Prison will be seeing Scott Peterson in person any time soon as officials consider if he should be retried in the headline-grabbing slayings of his pregnant wife and unborn child, a judge decided Friday. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo...

California High Court Rejects Scott Peterson’s Death Penalty

SACRAMENTO — The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife, but said prosecutors may try again for the same sentence if they wish in the high-profile case. It upheld his 2004 murder conviction in the killing of...

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