Peterson trial

Kathleen Peterson's sister, Candace Zamperini, makes an emotional appeal to Judge Orlando Hudson to continue the hearing because Cline was unprepared. Saying the tenth anniversary of her sister's murder was just days away, Zamperini forcefully argued for more time, staring intently at Michael Peterson as she addressed the judge.Peterson and his legal team began their attack on former State Bureau of Investigation agent Duane Deaver, a key expert witness at Peterson's 2003 trial, which ended in a life sentence for first-degree murder. A jury convicted Peterson of killing his wife, Nortel Networks executive Kathleen Peterson, who died in a pool of blood at the bottom of a blood-spattered staircase in the Petersons' Forest Hills mansion in December 2001. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT via Getty Images)