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2003 American murder trial

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Court	Superior Court of North Carolina
Full case name	State of North Carolina v. Michael Iver Peterson
Started	July 1, 2003 (2003-07-01)
Decided	October 10, 2003 (2003-10-10)
Verdict	Guilty of murder of Kathleen Peterson
Appealed to
Subsequent actions	Motion for new trial denied by Durham County Superior Court on March 10, 2009 New trial granted on December 16, 2011 Entered Alford plea on February 24, 2017, sentenced to 86 months with credit for time served
Judge sitting	Orlando Hudson

Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001.

After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony.^[1] In 2017, Peterson submitted an Alford