Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im Justine Waldman and ongoing case thats over 20 years old continues before judge today as the fight for Scott Petersons innocence. Proceeds he los angeles Innocence Project, some of petersons family members and a skeptical private investigator are not convinced that the right man is behind bars for the deaths of Laci Peterson and her unborn son. Connor kron 4 s Charles Clifford joins us now live from redwood city with details about their efforts to try to overturn Scott Petersons conviction. Inside a mateo county courtroom tuesday morning, Scott Peterson appeared via video conference. Lawyers with the la Innocence Project. Attorneys from the Stanislaus County District Attorneys Office and members of the Peterson Family were also in the room in 2004 peterson was convicted of murdering his wife laci and their unborn son. Connor in modesto, back in 2002 at the original trial, peterson was sentenced to death, but that was later chang
Know who is coming in and out their unmarked cars, but presumably some of them are fbi agents. And theyve been out here since the early morning. We do know that theres been an ongoing years long federal abuse investigation going on here and years ago to eventually lead charges against the former warden and other employees. They were removed from the premises at the time today weve been made aware fbi agents stopped by again this time searching and taking computers and documents were also told. But the current warden associate warden and the captain were removed from the facility today. We spoke with a volunteer advocate with the California Coalition for women prisoners, a group part of a Class Action Lawsuit against fci and the federal bureau of prisons. Emily shapiro says last week 12 more survivors join the lawsuit. Shapiros mornings raid but suspects it likely has to do with the Class Action Lawsuit. I feel a like i said, like distrustful that like getting a few bad eggs out is goin
Like yesterday starting with those showers and getting to the sunshine during the afternoon where were sitting right now. As you can see, we have a lot of clouds and those active showers moving across the region. Our heaviest of rainfall has now moved out into the Central Valley and up into the sierra foothills and a lot of snow in the sierra itself. So this is one of our last snowy impacts, at least for a little while for a mountainous regions where were sitting in the bay right now, very wettest on the peninsula. As you can see, a lot of green stretching from the Marin Headlands through San Francisco down the peninsula and across our bridges, east bay shoreline and into the south bay. Also looking wet interior east bay. Also on the west side this morning. So just take it. Slow are out there. Roadways are slick for sure. Its lighter rainfall right now. But after heavier showers last night, a little bit of ponding going on. 40s to 50s for current temps later today. Its going to be a lo
Seenc removing at least one box of potential evidence and placing it in a minivan. The prison has been at the center of a long running sex abuse scandad extensively by ktvu. Eightt prison workers have been charged by federaluprosecutors with including former warden rayven year to more than five yearsuin federal prison for abusing three female inmates. Just last week, a dozen more women filed sexual abuse and retaliation lawsuits against guards at the prisonl bringing the total number of lawsuits to 63. uthe litigation comes as the dublin prison is now being run by its Fourth Administration since garcias departure. I have very little faith about bop ability to reform this deeply jensen is an attorney representing a number of victims. She says the problems here are proof there needs to be change from the outside. The ads dismissed monday had pledged to reform the prison and they all testified about how this is a different place than it was under warden garcia. ubut this looks the same to
Spshakeup inuleadership at that prison. Yeah. Jacob. Indeed, even as we see fbi agents coming and going throughout the prison, now, they are possibly building yet another criminal case in the wake of thatc massive sex abuse scandal involvinguguards and female inmates, a major shakeup at the all womens federal prison in dublin on monday as fbi agents swarmed the facility, ktvu has learned. The wardenuand associate warden and a captain leadership is now in place. The restructuring comes as about 20 fbi agents raided the facility. A bureau spokeswoman confirmed those agents were at the prison conducting, quote, Court Authorized Law Enforcement Activity but declined to elaborate. The fbi agents were at the prison for most of the day. At one point, they were seen removing at least one box of potential evidence and placing it inc a minivan. The prison has been at the center of a long running sex abuse scandal thats been documented extensively by ktvu. Eight prison workers have been charged b