The Los Angeles Innocence Project returned to court this week requesting access to hundreds of pieces of evidence that they believe could grant convicted murderer Scott Peterson a new trial. 

Peterson was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child Conner. The victims’ decomposed remains were later found in the San Francisco Bay a few miles away from where Peterson said he had gone fishing — the same day pregnant Laci was reported missing from Modesto in Stanislaus County. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.