SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to deny accused double murderer Scott Peterson's request to move his upcoming trial from his hometown of Modesto in central California, saying it was Peterson's own lawyer who was generating the negative publicity in the case.
Peterson's attorney, Mark Geragos, last month asked a Stanislaus County judge to move the trial to another part of the state because people living in and near Modesto had a "lynch-mob mentality" whipped up by negative press coverage.
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