He will have his own cell, he will be allowed outside in the prison yard for five hours a day and he will be offered three showers a week. Meals will be given at the same hours three times a day.

It will be Peterson's routine for decades to come as his case is appealed. Peterson will sit on death row for more than five years before he is appointed an attorney for his first and mandatory appeal to the California Supreme Court.

A big reason for the delays is that there are too many inmates with too few lawyers willing to volunteer for the relatively low-paying job. A condemned Peterson would join about 120 others who do not yet have lawyers.

And even when an attorney is appointed, there are no deadlines for California's high court to act. Of the 38 states with the death penalty, California moves the slowest toward executions. The most active death penalty state, Texas, has executed 23 inmates this year and 336 since 1982, when executions resumed there.

The best issue for reversing the conviction may be juror misconduct and discovery violations by the prosecution.

KTVU Fox 2 has learned that one of the discovery violations was based upon an apparent phone conversation taped between an inmate in Modesto and his brother.

"The tape has a brother outside of jail telling the brother in jail that he had heard that people had burglarized Laci and Scott's house," said attorney Michael Cardoza, who has assisted with Peterson's defense. "(It goes on) that Laci had surprised them and that there were words between the burglars and Laci and then it went from there.

The bigger issue to me is the jurors' experiment with the boat. A juror interviewed after the verdict confirmed that he and others got inside the boat to test it for buoyancy.