Drew Peterson trial updates:9:25 a.m. Defense complains about coverageTV news coverage of the case has chafed the defense team.
One of Drew Peterson's attorneys, Steven Greenberg, complained about "media pundits" who over the weekend "ripped" Judge Edward Burmila for siding with the defense. Greenberg noted Burmila ruled for the defense and prosecution throughout the first week of the trial.
"Unfortunately, people are used to judges who are pro-prosecution," Greenberg said. "The judge is supposed to be the umpire, he's supposed to go down the middle."
9:15 a.m. Defense files motion over second autopsyThe defense filed a motion about potential testimony from Dr. Michael Baden, who performed an autopsy on Savio's body when it was exhumed following the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy.
Defense attorney Steven Greenberg cited a television interview in which Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective who led the O.J. Simpson investigation, said he and Baden had discussed the case before the autopsy.
"He was on 'Judge Jeanine' and said how he and Baden decided this was a homicide before the exhumation and before they performed the autopsy," Greenberg said.
Another defense attorney, Joel Brodsky, said Baden was paid by Fox News to perform the autopsy. "If there's no murder, there's no story" for Fox News, Brodsky said.
It was not clear prosecutors plan to call Baden as a witness.
A spokesman for the prosecutors, Charles Pelkie, announced the witness list for today: Michael VanOver, a Will County deputy coroner who was at Kathleen Savio's house; Robert Deel, the Illinois State Police investigator who led the initial death investigation and ruled Savio's death an accident; Patrick Collins, who investigated the case with Deel; Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil; and Bolingbrook police officer James Coughlin.
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