Defense Attorney Mark Geragos on the Scott Peterson Case, Media Influence, and a Broken Justice System

Mark Geragos has represented some of the most notorious defendants in American legal history — Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, the Menendez brothers, Susan McDougal. In this conversation with Khloé Kardashian, he walks through what really happened in the Peterson case, why he believes an innocent man was convicted, and how the criminal justice system fails defendants at nearly every stage.

The Scott Peterson Case: What the Public Never Saw

The dominant narrative around Scott Peterson has been fixed for two decades: a cheating husband killed his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son. Geragos, who defended Peterson, says the evidence never supported that story. The prosecution could not establish when Laci was killed, how she was killed, or where she was killed. "All they know is that four months later she showed up after a storm in the area where he had been fishing."