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Ex-SBI agent Deaver's testimony could lead to reviews

Duane Deaver's work paved the path for Michael Peterson's new trial. His testimony also could force another look at the sentences of several other convicted murderers.

DURHAM COUNTY

Michael Peterson denies guilt, tastes freedom

Michael Peterson sat in his lawyer's office Wednesday afternoon twisting his wedding ring and talking about the electronic anklet that has monitored his movements over the past week.

AGENTS' SECRETS

Time line: The Michael Peterson case

AGENTS' SECRETS

Defense challenged Deaver at trial in 2003

Michael Peterson's hearing for a new trial this month was not the first time his defense team had challenged the credentials of former State Bureau of Investigation agent Duane Deaver.

AGENTS' SECRETS

Peterson defense dissects Deaver's methods

The Michael Peterson hearing took on some trappings of a film festival Thursday, somehow appropriate for a criminal case that has spawned documentaries and a feature film.

DURHAM COUNTY

SBI expert's partiality, methods questioned in Peterson hearing

To win a new trial, Durham novelist Michael Peterson and his lawyers are arguing that former SBI agent Duane Deaver tailored his expert witness testimony not to the facts or science of a case, but to what prosecutors wanted him to say.

DURHAM COUNTY

Correction

A story and a photo caption on Wednesday about the Michael Peterson court hearing incorrectly spelled the name of SBI Assistant Director Erik Hooks.

AGENTS' SECRETS: THE FALLOUT

Correction

A story on Tuesday about Michael Peterson's return to Durham to seek a re-trial on his murder conviction inaccurately described two family members who were in the courtroom supporting him. Peterson raised Margaret and Martha Ratliff after their parents died. The story also should have said that ...