According to WRAL News, "He said his client could ask the U. "Because we hold that admission of the evidence seized pursuant to the third search warrant was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, that the trial court did not err in admitting evidence concerning the death of Elizabeth Ratliff, and that the prosecutor's closing arguments did not amount to reversible error, we affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals." Convicted killer and former Durham mayoral candidate Michael Peterson served 10 days in segregation at Nash Correctional Institution this month after he was found with another prisoner's medications, authorities said.This was Peterson's second time in segregation in the past month.He claimed she'd downed booze and prescription pills the night of her death, which directly caused her to fatally fall.All along, Michael grinned and giggled as he lied, fully aware his supporters would eventually be brought down with him.He must ask permission to leave North Carolina, and has been ordered not to travel to the Northern Virginia metropolitan area where some of Kathleen Peterson's relatives live -- but Peterson is now free to remove the electronic monitoring devices he has worn for more than two years.Judge Orlando Hudson has ruled that Michael Peterson will get a new trial.Hudson -- based on other case reversals -- found that testimony from former State Bureau of Investigation agent Duane Deaver, may have misled the jury in the 2003 trial.District Attorney Tracey Cline says Peterson is "guilty as hell" and has appealed Hudson's ruling to grant Peterson a new trial.

In this dark, dark moment -- I beg you to remember the re-trials and eventual conviction of the wife murdering Rabbi Fred Neulander.

A hearing on the agreement has been scheduled for February 24, 2017 at 11 AM." "The truth is Kathleen Peterson, after drinking some wine and some champagne and taking some valium, tried to walk up a narrow, poorly lit stairway in flip-flops.

She fell and bled to death." -- David Rudolf, December, 2001 "If you want my opinion, they were probably shit-faced and she fell." -- Todd Peterson, December, 2001 "When I called 9-1-1, I thought she'd fallen down the stairs.

"We were hoping that this would be the end, but it's not.

So we tee up and prepare for trial in May," noted the novelist's new defense attorney, Mary Jude Darrow.