# Michael Peterson trial

Overturned · 2003

Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. In 2011, after eight years in prison, Peterson was released from prison after being granted a new trial. In a review of an appeal, the judge had ruled that a critical prosecution witness in the first trial gave misleading testimony.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=2044710
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/michael-peterson-trial-w2044710

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## Open questions

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## Unverified findings

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## Sources

1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=2044710


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