Crime
March 22, 2016 6:24 PM
Mike Peterson’s attorney questions preservation of evidence in murder case
Highlights:
In court documents, Mike Klinkosum describes disarray
Garbage found on a shirt collected after Kathleen Peterson’s 2001 death
Evidence with ‘biohazard’ labels unsealed and exposed
DURHAM
When novelist Mike Peterson went to trial in 2003, accused of murdering his wife, his defense team spent much of the protracted trial describing what they argued was a shoddy police investigation.
Now, as the 71-year-old man awaits a second trial on the same charge – that he murdered Kathleen Peterson on Dec. 9, 2001 – a new defense team is questioning whether protection of the evidence for the 15-year-old case also has been shoddy.
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Klinkosum was assigned to the case in October 2014 after Peterson sought a publicly appointed attorney. He is considered indigent by the courts.
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