Peterson Jurors Have 2 Choices if They Convict

Jurors hearing Scott Peterson’s double murder case will have two choices should they decide to convict the former fertilizer salesman, one of which would spare him a possible death sentence.

Judge Alfred A. Delucchi said Friday that he found ample evidence to support second-degree murder charges, as well as the first-degree murder counts filed against Peterson.

Peterson faces two counts of murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife and the fetus she carried.

Convictions on the lesser charges could bring two sentences of 15 years to life in prison instead of the life without parole or death penalty prosecutors are seeking.