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# Criminal charges never filed against defendant
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/criminal-charges-never-filed-against-defendant/
- Published: 2003-05-12T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:08:09.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

He showed receipts from a pair of diamond earrings and other gifts he’d purchased for her.

Peters said the two were just friends. She said she invited Wright to sleep in her bed out of convenience so he wouldn’t have to push together sofas in the living room, as he’d done three times before.

Early in the morning, Peters testified she woke to Wright raping her.

Shepard Kopp, Wright’s defense attorney, said the two were engaged in consenting foreplay before Wright tried to have sex with her but was rebuffed. Wright did not continue to try and have sex with her after she said no, both sides testified.

Both sides said they went back to sleep immediately after the incident.

The pair had consumed approximately two bottles of wine that evening, both Peters and Wright testified.

Peters called Los Angeles Police Department officers on Jan. 27, 2001, 17 days after the alleged rape occurred.

Kopp characterized Peters’ lawsuit as a money-making ploy and said she is trying to profit off of a mistake she made after drinking too much.

Kopp works with the firm Geragos & Geragos, which is defending Scott Peterson, who is accused of killing his wife and unborn child in the San Francisco Bay-area. The firm’s client list also includes Winona Ryder and Susan McDougal.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 12, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051203.pdf?ref=smdp.com)