About Rick Distaso
Born 1967. Rick Distaso is a lawyer and judge.
Joseph Richard "Rick" Distaso (born January 25, 1967, in Los Angeles County, California) is an American lawyer and judge.
He was the Stanislaus County, California, senior deputy district attorney who served as the lead prosecutor in the case against Scott Peterson, charged with and later convicted of murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child Conner Peterson in 2002. Laci was eight months pregnant with Conner at the time of the murder.
Distaso attended University of Southern California as an undergraduate, and attended Loyola Law School for his law education. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1992. After graduation from law school, he was a lawyer for the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army through 1996, with the rank of captain, and then joined the Stanislaus County district attorney's office.
As of December 2019, he is a judge for the Army's 4th Judicial Circuit.
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Rick Distaso was born on 25 January 1967 in Los Angeles County.
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Rick Distaso is a lawyer and judge.
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