[The Attorney General's Office] wouldn't offer anything less than a murder conviction and that wasn't acceptable to us.

We wanted a first-degree murder conviction, and now we have no other appellate issues which could cause another reversal of the conviction down the road. This is a very solid conviction.

Maybe it would have been a murder conviction instead of a capital murder conviction if this had been disclosed.

It's murder. And a murder conviction shows that transgender lives are valuable.

I don't think there's a genuine doubt that there was a conviction of murder and that Mr. Peterson is in San Quentin State Prison.

Our office does not appoint special prosecutors, nor do we have jurisdiction to investigate the crime of murder.