Via: News14.Com
A hearing to determine if a Durham novelist convicted of killing his wife 10 years ago will get a new trial continues Tuesday. Last week, attorneys in the Michael Peterson case continued questioning. Peterson’s argument for a new trial has been that a former SBI analyst provided misleading testimony about blood evidence during his 2003 trial.
Peterson was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Kathleen in 2001. Former FBI agent Chris Swecker took the stand. Swecker reviewed then SBI agent Duane Deaver’s work from 1987 to 2003. They found that in five of Deaver’s cases the lab notes did not match up with the final report. This means sometimes when it was confirmed there was no blood in some spots at the scene of a crime, that information was left out.
