California Court Accessibility During Covid-19, Jan. 21, 2021 Edition.

Appearing by Zoom from San Quentin State Prison, where he has been imprisoned for 16 years, Peterson waived his right to proceed at this time with a new trial of his sentence.

(Subscription required) "The first priority is addressing what COVID has done to our system of civil justice in California," the Santa Ana Democrat told the Daily Journal after the bill was proposed Tuesday. "Trials are delayed. Courts are operating at skeleton status."

Peterson has been appearing in court virtually in recent months after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence stemming from the killing of his wife Laci and their unborn son in 2002.