had already concluded Peterson was guilty prior to the trial. The prosecution countered that the California Supreme Court should overturn the verdict only if it were to find that a prospective juror was improperly dismissed, and that "there was 'no credible claim' that any of the 12 jurors who decided Peterson's fate were unfair or partial." On August 24, 2020, in a 7–0 decision, the Supreme Court of California upheld Peterson's conviction, but overturned his death sentence, because Peterson's trial judge, Alfred Delucchi, who had died on February 26, 2008, had dismissed jurors who opposed capital punishment without asking them whether they could put their views aside. Justice Leondra Kruger explained that per Supreme Court rulings since 1968, "Jurors may not be excused merely for opposition to the death penalty, but only for views rendering them unable to fairly consider imposing that penalty in accordance with their oath. This is the meaning of the guarantee of an impartial jury." Prosecutors initially stated that they would retry the penalty phase, but subsequently reversed that decision in June 2021. On September 22, 2021, California Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled that Peterson would be re-sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The following month, Massullo scheduled a hearing on that matter for December 8. On December 8, Massullo re-sentenced Peterson to life in prison without the possibility of parole, for the first-degree murder of Laci, and a concurrent sentence of 15 years to life for the second-degree murder of Conner. In October 2022, Peterson was moved off San Quentin's death row, and transferred to Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California. On December 20, 2022, Massullo rejected Peterson's request for a new trial, which Peterson requested on the basis that Juror No. 7, Richelle Nice, committed misconduct when she lied about her own history of domestic abuse during jury selection, which Peterson stated had tainted the jury. Massullo concluded that there was no evidence to support this accusation, explaining that Nice did not intentionally conceal this information with the motive to stay on the jury, nor appeared vengeful toward Peterson in letters she later wrote him in the prison. Massullo wrote, "The Court concludes that Juror No. 7’s responses were not motivated by pre-existing or improper bias against [Peterson], but instead were the result of a combination of good faith misunderstanding of the questions and sloppiness in answering." Peterson