A judge has re-sentenced convicted murderer Scott Peterson to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a California Supreme Court ruling sent the case back to the trial court last year.

Peterson was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife and unborn child and was sentenced to death the next year but has challenged his conviction over the past decade-plus while on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.