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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:28 pm 
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The prosecution seem to be still at it... trying to sneak in mention of "prior bad acts" via Savio's divorce attorney.
Discussions with Judge who excludes possible testimony.

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2:45 p.m. Prosecutors to call Savio divorce attorney
Prosecutors say they plan to call Harry Smith, who was Kathleen Savio's divorce attorney and was also consulted for a divorce by Stacy Peterson.

Assistant State's Attorney John Connor is asking the judge to consider allowing them to question Smith about certain aspects of Drew Peterson's divorce settlement as well as an incident in which Savio got into a fight with Stacy Peterson and was quickly tossed to the ground and subdued by Drew Peterson.

Burmila said Smith can testify generally about the divorce, but not about what he expected the outcome of the trial to be.

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State files motion in apparent attempt to bring back the hit-man evidence

Judge informs jurors that testimony has concluded for the day, they are excused.

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I think Judge Burmila is doing a good job of trying to keep this trial based on EVIDENCE and not what people have preconceived notions about. Those notions may well be correct... but in a trial they must be proven by EVIDENCE.

EVERYONE thinks DP placed a bullet in the neighbours driveway... but there is no evidence of that. Everyone thinks that DP slipped in a towel next to the bath... but there is no evidence to prove that. etc.

And HEARSAY... is usually excluded for obvious reasons (eg it can not be challenged by cross examination).
Some concessions have been made for this case at pre-trial hearings... the prosecution though, can not go beyond that.

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Drew Peterson trial updates: Key testimony expected from divorce lawyer

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4:30 p.m. Key testimony expected from divorce lawyer
Outside the courthouse Thursday afternoon, State's Atty. James Glasgow praised Judge Edward Burmila's decision not to declare a mistrial and said he expected the prosecution would be able to get key testimony from Savio's divorce attorney, Harry Smith.

Prosecutors also filed a motion Thursday seeking to admit evidence about Peterson allegedly offering a co-worker $25,000 to hire someone to kill Savio -- something Glasgow had been barred from mentioning during his opening statement.

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TRIAL DAY 4 (8-03-12)

STATE OF IL. VS. DREW PETERSON


Trial Day Starts in Joliet Il. - Friday, August 3, 2012 9:00AM CT

Days will be ....Tuesday Through Friday, every week until it goes to jury!!!

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There is NOBODY who can place Drew at the house in the hours KS died.

The only hint that he was not home with TP.... is the "Pastor Hearsay".... and that does NOT place him at KS's home?

It increasingly seems to me that the prosecution simply don't have sufficient evidence to prove this case.

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7 a.m. Will divorce attorney take the stand?
Prosecutors have told the defense they plan to call at least four witnesses today, including a locksmith who previously testified he took a call from Peterson the night Kathleen Savio was found dead in a bathtub in her Bolingbrook home in 2004.
Christopher Wolzen testified during a pretrial hearing that he was on call that night, but Peterson asked him for the cell phone of Robert Akin Jr., a longtime friend of Peterson’s who owns Larry’s Lock Service in Bolingbrook.
Akin testified Thursday that he unlocked Savio’s front door for Peterson but didn’t charge him.
It’s unclear if prosecutors will also attempt to call Harry Smith, Savio’s divorce attorney, today.
Judge Edward Burmila said Thursday he would restrict Smith’s testimony only to some basic details of issues left to be settled in Peterson’s divorce.
At one point, the judge asked prosecutors if they wanted to do an offer of proof – a hearing before the judge outside the presence of jurors where prosecutors would present all the questions they planned to ask and then request that the judge allow them.

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Drew Peterson trial updates: Early recess, trial resumes Tuesday

After Kathleen Savio's sister, Anna Marie Doman, concluded her testimony, Judge Edward Bermila announced he would stop the trial for the day and resume Tuesday morning due a juror's illness.
The man had been coughing excessivly throughout the morning, causing the court to call a break earlier in the day to allow him to compose himself.
But Burmila said that he feared the man might cause other jurors to get ill.
"I don't want anyone else to get sick. So were going to recess today and give that individual an opportunity to get better."
Burmila has scheduled the trial to take place Tuesdays through Fridays, allowing him to handle his other regular court business on Mondays.

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The Defence Team seem to all be on the same page

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I think it is dangerous for Illinois to have passed that heresay law since we've always assumed we could confront an accuser. Some call it Drew's law.

And then the prosecution supposedly (I believe it was intentional) got sneaky and threw in forbidden stuff. Unbelievable and the judge thinks it's good enough to level the playing field just by telling the jury to disregard some of the testimony. OMG!


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There is NOBODY who can place Drew at the house in the hours KS died.

The only hint that he was not home with TP.... is the "Pastor Hearsay".... and that does NOT place him at KS's home?

It increasingly seems to me that the prosecution simply don't have sufficient evidence to prove this case.

He supposedly offered somebody money to kill her but that testimony isn't coming in either. And if Stacy knew he was involved in Kathleen's death, she isn't around to testify. One thing that makes him look guilty is sending the locksmith and neighbor into the house to "find" her dead in the bathtub rather than going in himself. But I agree with you, they just seem to have pieces of a puzzle that are supposed to fit together at the end and point to him doing it.


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Jeanine Pirro is doing a segment on Peterson now on Fox..Mark Fuhrman is on! Love that man!


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Rem16 wrote:
Jeanine Pirro is doing a segment on Peterson now on Fox..Mark Fuhrman is on! Love that man!

I'm watching!! :28


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Drew Peterson trial: Week 1 recap

First days included two defense calls for a mistrial

By Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune reporter
August 5, 2012

The case: Former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson is charged with murder in the drowning of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Trial recap: During opening statements Tuesday, prosecutors said Peterson drowned his ex-wife and staged the scene to look like an accident. The defense called Savio "bonkers" and said the state's case is highly circumstantial.

The contentious first week of testimony included a judge's public rebuke of the state after the defense twice asked him to dismiss the case because of the state's use of inadmissible and prejudicial statements.

The first request for a mistrial came just minutes into Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow's opening statement Tuesday, when he began telling jurors that they would hear evidence of an alleged plot by Peterson to pay $25,000 for a hit man to kill his ex-wife.

The next day, Judge Edward Burmila angrily castigated prosecutors when they elicited inadmissible testimony from Peterson's former neighbor. The witness, Thomas Pontarelli, said he found a bullet on his driveway and believed it to be a message of intimidation from Peterson.

Burmila called the state's actions a "low blow" but allowed the trial to continue.

On Friday, Anna Marie Doman testified that weeks before her younger sister Savio's death, she told Doman that Peterson threatened to kill her.

Coming up: Testimony is scheduled to resume Tuesday. Jurors are expected to hear from a state police crime scene investigator who found nothing suspicious about Savio's drowning.

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TRIAL DAY 5 (8-07-12)

STATE OF IL. VS. DREW PETERSON


Trial Day Starts in Joliet Il. - Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:00AM CT

Days will be ....Tuesday Through Friday, every week until it goes to jury!!!

There will be no camera's in courtroom unfortunately so we will have to rely on twitter for information as to what is going on in courtroom & also Updates from several outlets.

TRIAL UPDATES: Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 8797.story
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Investigators expected to take stand at Peterson trial
Crime scene work, police interview with now-missing wife likely to be issues at trial
By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune reporter
8:59 p.m. CDT, August 6, 2012

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Two investigators who led what prosecutors say was an inept inquiry into the 2004 drowning of Kathleen Savio are expected to take the stand Tuesday in the Drew Peterson murder trial.

Savio's death was at first treated as a household accident. Prosecutors have laid the blame for that on former Illinois State Police crime scene investigator Robert Deel, who they allege ruled out foul play in Savio's bathtub drowning within 30 minutes of arriving at her Bolingbrook home.

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow even mentioned Deel by name during his closing argument in a 2010 pretrial hearing, telling a judge that former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Peterson had staged the scene well enough to "fool" Deel.

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