Geragos filed the Defense Motion to Discharge Jury and Dismiss Penalty Phase, or in the alternative, for a new Penalty Phase Jury and Change of Venue.  The Motion argues that the Court erred in not sequestering the Jury between the guilt and penalty phases, and by doing so, released the Jurors into a community that embraced them as heroes for convicting the Defendant.  "So poisoned, how can these jurors fairly determine, without bias, whether Mr. Peterson should live or die?"  Alternatively to dismissing the penalty phase (which would result in the Defendant received life without possibility of parole), the Motion requested a new Jury be empanelled and the venue changed for the penalty phase.