Drew Peterson Trial --GUILTY!

[piwannab]

No Mistrial:

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/08/02/...?hpt=hp_t3

[Lady Cop]

i have to give nancy credit when it's due...brodsky is such an ASS! almost as big an ass as his client!

he's got the missing wife Stacy on the witness list in case she shows up.
he has no idea why drew was giving away all her clothes, even her underwear, since she's "still alive". blah blah. god he's a fuckwit.

Nancy Grace and defense attorney Joel Brodsky tangle over the case against his client, accused wife killer Drew Peterson.

here's a little video from the program where brodsky becomes an even bigger assclown:
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http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/08/06/na...s-attorney

[Lady Cop]

FOR FUCKS SAKE YOU AMATEUR PROSECUTORS!! GET YOUR DAMN ACT TOGETHER!! an idiot like brodsky is going to win this for a scumbag murderer??? another mistrial motion--->
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edit to add. wed.: defense withdrew motion for mistrial.

JOLIET, Ill. – The judge in Drew Peterson's murder case says he will announce his decision on a mistrial motion Wednesday morning.

Judge Edward Burmila is again considering a possible mistrial after another blunder from prosecutors in the former police officer's trial. Peterson attorney Joel Brodsky says the trial has been filled with "an avalanche of prejudicial, illegal evidence" and the case should be thrown out. Prosecutors argued against the move.

Peterson is accused in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He was charged after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007.

The judge on Tuesday afternoon berated a prosecutor after she raised an order of protection, a subject the judge previously barred. The prosecutor apologized to the judge, saying it was her fault.

Earlier, the judge barred two witnesses from testifying that the former Illinois police officer once boasted to them that he could make a murder look accidental.

Burmila agreed that admitting Peterson's alleged comment to Stacy Peterson's aunt and another woman would have created an unfair bias in jurors' minds. Both women were then removed from Tuesday's witness list.

Other witnesses have already testified that Peterson told Savio he could make her murder look accidental.

Also on Tuesday, Forensic toxicologist Christopher Long told jurors about tests done on tissue samples from Savio's body.

Authorities initially ruled that Savio accidentally drowned in her bathtub. But after the fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared, Savio's body was re-examined and her death was reclassified as a homicide.

Long told jurors that tests conducted on Savio's tissue in 2004 and 2007 found no sign of drugs or alcohol in her system.

[lucimhome]

NO Mistrial today! It was a good day for the State.

[Lady Cop]

play by play Tuesday.

chicagotribune
August 21, 2012

Continual coverage of the trial of Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

5:30 p.m. Testimony concludes for day

Testimony from Mary Case, a St. Louis County medical examiner who was the only witness in the trial today, has concluded and court is done for the day.

3:20 p.m. 'It is a homicide'

The state's final question to St. Louis County Medical Examiner Mary Case during its direct examination was whether she had an opinion on the manner of death.

"I do," Case said. "My opinion is that it is a homicide, meaning that some other person did it."

3:10 p.m. 'I hope they like to walk'

After yet another sidebar, the jury was led out of the courtroom. A few minutes later, Judge Edward Burmila asked that the bailiff bring the jury back.

"I hope they like to walk," he muttered as the bailiff left the room.

2:20 p.m. Fall wouldn't have knocked out Savio

Medical examiner Mary Case said that it was her opinion that a fall in the tub would not have rendered Kathleen Savio unconscious.

Rapid acceleration of the brain within the skull can cause a diffuse brain injury resulting in concussions, loss of consciousness or death. These injuries are common in car accidents.

In Savio's case, she could not have fallen fast enough to cause her to hit her head hard enough to knock herself out, Case said.

"It's not the type of force we would see from a standing position, falling in a tub and striking the head," she said. "That is not enough significant force to produce a diffuse brain injury."

2 p.m. Cut on Savio's head focus of testimony

Testimony in the Drew Peterson trial resumed this afternoon with St. Louis County Medical Examiner Mary Case.

Case testified that the blow to the back Kathleen Savio's head was not forceful enough to damage the layers of tissue between the skin and the skull.

"It did not penetrate the galea, it did not damage the bone," she said. "It was, you know, whatever force was enough to just damage the skin."

11:55 a.m. More starts and stops for trial

The defense objected to State’s Attorney James Glasgow asking medical examiner Mary Case if Dr. Bryan Mitchell, who performed the original autopsy on Kathleen Savio in 2004, offered any manner of death.

Judge Edward Burmila ordered the jury out, and the defense argued that Mitchell was not authorized to determine anything more than cause of death.

Glasgow argued that Mitchell, who noted that Savio’s head wound may have been the result of a fall, did not say whether her death was accidental or otherwise. He wanted Case to testify that Mitchell's "unfortunate" and "half-baked" assumption would not meet the standard needed for manner of death.

Burmila said Case could say whether Mitchell listed a manner of death, but prosecutors could not ask whether she had an opinion about what Mitchell thought about how Savio died.

The jury was brought back in, and Glasgow complied with the judge's order, but the defense objected again within seconds and the jury was led out again.

The defense argued it's improper to lead the jury to believe Mitchell erred in not listing a manner of death, since at that time such determinations were made by a coroner's jury.

The trial is on a lunch break until 1:15 p.m.

11:25 a.m. Judge will tell jury to ignore names

Judge Edward Burmila said he would allow Medical Examiner Mary Case to return to the stand after he instructs the jury to ignore the names she mentioned earlier.

11 a.m. Judge halts trial yet again

Just minutes into Medical Examiner Mary Case's testimony, the trial ground to a halt as the judge stopped her in mid-sentence and asked that the jury be led out of the courtroom.

At issue was Case's testimony that she reviewed reports and statements about the Savio case from witnesses who have been or will be called, as well as similar documents from people the state does not intend to call or whose testimony was barred.

"So now the doctor has advised the jury that she has reviewed the sworn testimony from people this jury will never hear from," Burmila said. "And what are we going to do about that?"

The defense, which did not raise an objection, seized the opportunity to argue that the state erred in allowing Case to mention the names of the barred or un-called witnesses.

"It would be entirely inappropriate for her to comment on any of those things, particularly at this point," Peterson attorney Darryl Goldberg said.

The trial recessed for the state to try locate case law showing other instances where an expert witness has been allowed to talk about the findings of witnesses who were not themselves called to testify.

Judge Edward Burmila has stopped the trial several times, frustrating some jurors. The trial was put on hold three times previously so Burmila could consider whether to declare a mistrial after prosecution errors.

10:30 a.m. Medical examiner takes the stand

The first witness of the day isSt. LouisCounty Medical Examiner Mary Case, a prosecution expert on what renders people unconscious.

10 a.m. Judge allows hit man testimony

Judge Edward Burmila will allow testimony about Drew Peterson's alleged attempt to hire a hit man to kill his wife because it shows the former Bolingbrook police sergeant's possible intent. The prosecution, however, cannot argue that Peterson tried to put a hit on his third wife, Kathleen Savio, only that the testimony show he wanted her dead, Burmila said.

The ruling clears the way for Jeff Pachter to take the stand at some point this week. Pachter, who once worked with Peterson at his side job as cable outfitter, is expected to testify that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant offered him $25,000 to hire a hit man to kill Savio in late 2003, just a few months before her death.

The prosecution initially had been chastised for mentioning the possible hit man testimony during opening statements because the state had not notified the defense of its plans to use it. Last week, Burmila ruled that the prosecution did not understand the law and therefore could file a late notice to have the witness testify.

9:15 a.m. Investigator due on stand

Witnesses on the list for today are Illinois State Police investigator Bryan Falat and forensic neuropathologist Mary Case.

Falat was one of the officers who investigated Kathleen Savio's death in 2004. Falat has testified previously that he believed the initial investigation was inadequate.

6:45 a.m. 2 key witnesses could testify

The Drew Peterson trial enters its fourth week of testimony Tuesday with prosecutors hoping to call two potentially powerful witnesses.

Both the Rev. Neil Schori and Jeff Pachter, a former Peterson co-worker, could take the stand this week if their appearances survive challenges from the defense.

Prosecutors want to call Schori to testify that Peterson's missing fourth wife, Stacy, told him during a pastoral counseling session that she saw her husband return home late, dressed in black and carrying a bag of women's clothing, not long before his third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead. His testimony is critical to the prosecution because another witness who said he heard a similar story from Stacy Peterson was not allowed to testify last week because of missteps by the state.

Schori's account would be the strongest piece of evidence prosecutors have introduced so far that could show Drew Peterson behaved suspiciously the weekend Savio died. No physical evidence or eyewitness account ties him to the alleged murder, which a coroner's jury initially ruled was an accident.

Peterson's attorneys long have sought to bar Schori from the trial, but Judge Edward Burmila has ruled that marital privilege does not apply to his testimony because Stacy Peterson was relaying what she saw, not what she heard. Burmila has indicated that he still must decide whether the testimony is relevant to the case.

Prosecutors also will try to persuade the judge to allow Pachter to take the stand. Pachter, who once worked with Drew Peterson at his side job as cable outfitter, is expected to testify that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant offered him $25,000 to hire a hit man to kill Savio in late 2003, just a few months before her death.

Peterson, 58, is charged with killing Savio, 40, who was found dead in a dry bathtub March 1, 2004. Officials initially ruled the death an accidental drowning, but after Stacy Peterson disappeared three years later, authorities reopened Savio's case and determined she had been killed.

Drew Peterson has not been charged in Stacy Peterson's disappearance, though he remains a suspect. He denies wrongdoing in both cases.

Prosecutors still have about a dozen witnesses remaining, and it's possible they could rest by week's end. However, given the slow-moving nature of the trial, it's possible the state's case could continue into a fifth week.



Peterson defense team. quite a gang!



Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow

[Lady Cop]

A witness at Drew Peterson's murder trial says the former Illinois police officer offered him $25,000 to hire someone to kill his third wife and told him it was a secret he'd take to his grave.

Jeff Pachter used to work with Peterson at a cable company. Pachter testified Wednesday that Peterson made the request months before Kathleen Savio was found dead in 2004. He says the code word to let Peterson know the hit happened was related to cookies, but he couldn't remember the word.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Joe Lopez accused Pachter of inventing the story to get his 15 minutes of fame and profit from the case's notoriety.

Prosecutors allege Peterson ended up killing Savio himself. He was charged only after his fourth wife disappeared in 2007.


Pachter

[Lady Cop]

prosecution just rested.

defense right away asked judge for directed verdict/acquittal.

if that's denied, defense will put on their case. or not.

[Lady Cop]

Kathleen Savio death scene.

[ramseycat]

Hmmm how did she manage to slip in a dry tub?

[Lady Cop]

water was let out there.

but i don't believe she sustained the injuries slipping in tub.

[ramseycat]

Me either. He killed her just like he did the other one. I hope he fries.

[Lady Cop]

Kathleen Savio death scene.

i want to see a friday verdict!

JOLIET, Ill. – Drew Peterson's son testified Wednesday at his father's murder trial that he never believed his dad killed his mother.

The 19-year-old child of the former suburban Chicago police officer and his third wife, Kathleen Savio, was the last witness to testify for the defense, which rested its case Wednesday after presenting three days of testimony. Just before the defense, Drew Peterson stood in the courtroom to tell the judge he had chosen not to testify.

Peterson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Savio's 2004 death, which was initially ruled an accident. Her death was re-examined and reclassified a homicide only after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007.

Thomas Peterson, now a student at the University of Pennsylvania, was 11 when his mother was found dead in her bathtub. At the time, he and his brother were staying with Drew and Stacy Peterson at their home just blocks from Savio's house.

"I believe that my dad is innocent," he said firmly when a defense attorney asked why he was in court.

"Are you here to support your father?" defense attorney Joel Brodsky moments later.

"Yes, sir," he said.

more on defense case:

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/29/def...z24z0UEbfN

[cladking]

Of course the kid doesn't think his father murdered his mother. On the rare chance he did he'd probably lie about it. A better question would be "do you think your father could ever kill someone under any circumstances?".

[SensibleSally]

Not sure if any of you saw this article or not..

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/23/s...-at-trial/

Minister: Stacy Said Drew Peterson Told Her To Lie To Police

JOLIET,Ill. (CBS) – The pastor to Drew Peterson’s fourth wife testified Thursday that Stacy told him Drew asked her to lie to the police the day after Kathleen Savio’s death.

Stacy Peterson’s pastor, Rev. Neil Schori, testified Stacy Peterson appeared frightened, and was crying as she spoke to him at a suburban coffee shop in 2007, more than three years after Savio’s death.

“She said that she lied on Drew’s behalf to police,” Schori testified.

Schori said he met Stacy at a Starbucks in Bolingbrook on Aug. 31, 2007, and she “appeared to be nervous, tentative.”

He said the two talked for about two hours, and “She withdrew physically into herself, I recall, pulling her leg up and hugging it. She silently cried, she had tears streaming down her cheeks.”

Schori said Stacy told him about a night when she and Drew had gone to bed together at the same time, but she woke up in the middle of the night and Drew was gone. He said she searched the house and called Drew, but could not find him. The next morning, she saw him standing near the washer and dryer, dressed in all black, and carrying a bag.

Stacy told him Drew “took all his clothes off, and he took the contents of the bag and put all of that in the washer.”

When Drew walked away, Stacy looked in the washer and saw woman’s clothing inside that did not belong to her, Schori recalled Stacy telling him.

Later, Drew told her the police would be coming to sit down and interview her.



“He told her what to say to the police,” Schori testified. “She said she lied on his behalf to the police.”

Schori said Stacy told him it took hours for Drew to tell her what to say to the police.

Two months after that conversation with Schori, Stacy Peterson would go missing and hasn’t been seen since. Her disappearance prompted a new investigation into Savio’s death, leading to the murder charges against Drew Peterson.

Peterson is on trial in the alleged murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Savio’s body was found in a dry bathtub in 2004. Her death was originally ruled an accidental drowning, but was reclassified as a homicide following a new autopsy when Stacy Peterson disappeared in 2007.

Later Thursday, prosecutors told the judge they should be ready to rest their case by Friday morning. Defense attorneys said they will take at least a day-and-a-half to present their case, so the jury could begin deliberations as early as next week.

Before Schori took the stand Thursday, a spectator was tossed from the courtroom, after a sheriff’s deputy caught him mouthing “f**k you” to Drew Peterson.

WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports the spectator, Cincinnati restauranteur Jeff Ruby, has been in court throughout the Peterson’s murder trial as a self-described victims’ advocate

------there's more on the webpage if you care to read it

[Lady Cop]

prosecution is putting on their rebuttal case right now, i hope this goes to jury by friday. then we have long holiday weekend damn it, i don't know if they'll deliberate.

[cladking]

Not sure if any of you saw this article or not..

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/23/s...-at-trial/

Minister: Stacy Said Drew Peterson Told Her To Lie To Police

JOLIET,Ill. (CBS) – The pastor to Drew Peterson’s fourth wife testified Thursday that Stacy told him Drew asked her to lie to the police the day after Kathleen Savio’s death.

Stacy Peterson’s pastor, Rev. Neil Schori, testified Stacy Peterson appeared frightened, and was crying as she spoke to him at a suburban coffee shop in 2007, more than three years after Savio’s death.

“She said that she lied on Drew’s behalf to police,” Schori testified.

Schori said he met Stacy at a Starbucks in Bolingbrook on Aug. 31, 2007, and she “appeared to be nervous, tentative.”

He said the two talked for about two hours, and “She withdrew physically into herself, I recall, pulling her leg up and hugging it. She silently cried, she had tears streaming down her cheeks.”

Schori said Stacy told him about a night when she and Drew had gone to bed together at the same time, but she woke up in the middle of the night and Drew was gone. He said she searched the house and called Drew, but could not find him. The next morning, she saw him standing near the washer and dryer, dressed in all black, and carrying a bag.

Stacy told him Drew “took all his clothes off, and he took the contents of the bag and put all of that in the washer.”

When Drew walked away, Stacy looked in the washer and saw woman’s clothing inside that did not belong to her, Schori recalled Stacy telling him.

Later, Drew told her the police would be coming to sit down and interview her.



“He told her what to say to the police,” Schori testified. “She said she lied on his behalf to the police.”

Schori said Stacy told him it took hours for Drew to tell her what to say to the police.

Two months after that conversation with Schori, Stacy Peterson would go missing and hasn’t been seen since. Her disappearance prompted a new investigation into Savio’s death, leading to the murder charges against Drew Peterson.

Peterson is on trial in the alleged murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Savio’s body was found in a dry bathtub in 2004. Her death was originally ruled an accidental drowning, but was reclassified as a homicide following a new autopsy when Stacy Peterson disappeared in 2007.

Later Thursday, prosecutors told the judge they should be ready to rest their case by Friday morning. Defense attorneys said they will take at least a day-and-a-half to present their case, so the jury could begin deliberations as early as next week.

Before Schori took the stand Thursday, a spectator was tossed from the courtroom, after a sheriff’s deputy caught him mouthing “f**k you” to Drew Peterson.

WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports the spectator, Cincinnati restauranteur Jeff Ruby, has been in court throughout the Peterson’s murder trial as a self-described victims’ advocate

------there's more on the webpage if you care to read it

...And I had always figured there was a small chance he didn't do it.

I'm not sure I could convict him on this alone but I now believe he did kill the one and probably the other as well.

[Lady Cop]

tuesday, closings today & jury instructions. i can't wait for verdict!

Attorneys deliver closing arguments at Drew Peterson’s trial Tuesday, after which jurors will begin deliberations on whether the state proved the former Illinois police officer murdered his third wife.

[Lady Cop]

wednesday...jury gets it today.

VERDICT WATCH!

i can only hope they are a group of intelligent jurors.

[pspence]

[/quote]

...And I had always figured there was a small chance he didn't do it.

I'm not sure I could convict him on this alone but I now believe he did kill the one and probably the other as well.
[/quote]
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you are freakin' kidding right? i could pull the switch on that smiling bastard in a GI minute.

[Lady Cop]

thursday
jury resumes deliberations this morning at 0900 C.
i think there will be a verdict today, i am not leaving the house! hahaha
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Chicago Tribune

September 6, 2012
Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the Drew Peterson murder case, sending four notes to the judge asking for transcripts of testimony from two hearsay witnesses along with death scene and autopsy photos.

The seven men and five women on the jury deliberated for ⁸¹⁄₂ hours before asking a bailiff if they could order dinner. The judge gave jurors the option of ordering dinner and continuing to deliberate or going home for the night. Jurors chose to go home, and the judge reminded them to avoid media coverage of the case before releasing them shortly after 6 p.m.