The sidebar ends. The jurors are excused from the courtroom.

Attorney Greenberg states the defense objection, claiming the State “wants to impeach the document with some kind of conjecture.” Prosecutor Glasgow agrees to move to a different line of argument.

The judge then sends for the jurors.

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The jurors are back in the courtroom,

... and prosecutor Glasgow resumes his rebuttal summation. “There are two documents relating to the coroner’s office that are in evidence . . . one of them is the autopsy protocol of Dr. Mitchell. You heard Mr. Lopez say he found the manner of death to be accident; that’s not true. He made no determination of the manner of death . . . :” Objection.

The parties go to a sidebar.



This could be a VERY long hour...

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The sidebar ends.
“You heard the testimony of Dr. Blum, as to how he proceeded with the second autopsy . . . he gave an opinion as to manner [of death], which was homicide . . . with regards to Dr. Jentzen, the key thrust of the defense argument is that this is a slip and fall, an accident. The evidence clearly shows that this a homicide. There was only one neuropathologist who testified in this case, Dr. Mary Case. He testified that she predominantly does autopsies on children’s brains. Clearly, that was a misrepresentation of what she does. Also, Dr. Jentzen testified that she had said she couldn’t be rendered unconscious without a visible injury. She didn’t’ say that . . . she said there wouldn’t even be a concussion in this case.”

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“It takes a fall of ten to fifteen feet, or a car accident to get diffuse axonal injury. Yet that’s what Dr. Jentzen says we have here . . . Dr. Baden found that diaphragm bruise . . . but that diaphragm bruise doesn’t fit this fall, so it’s gone; it’s an artifact . . . that buttock bruise, Dr. Mitchell saw it when it was fresh; that finding stands. But you can’t get that abrasion in this fall. So what do they do? It’s gone, it’s an artifact . . . you know beyond a reasonable doubt that what you’ve been seeing in these pictures is an abrasion, not an artifact. Finally, Dr. Jentzen said it was possible this could be a homicide . . . none of our witnesses said it could be an accident.”.

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“I would submit that Dr. Jentzen’s testimony bears little weight in this case, especially with respect with Dr. Case and Dr. Blum. And Dr. DiMaio . . . for all the evidence you heard about drugs, about cervical vertigo, Kathleen Savio was a healthy woman when she was in that tub that night . . . Dr. DiMaio, after admitting this was a neurological question, admits he’s a gunshot expert. But this isn’t a gunshot case. As to the hip bruise, he also brings it down to one bruise. But you saw the picture, the three single bruises . . . you heard the testimony from Dr. Blum, Dr. Case, and Dr. Baden that it would take a forceful blow to make those . . . those were deep bruises. As to the clavicle injuries, it doesn’t fit this slip and fall, so [SNAPS FINGERS] artifact!”

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“The orthostatic hypotension . . . Dr. Baden worked with patients that had that. And he indicated you’d normally see a history of this; it doesn’t just come on. You know she didn’t have orthostatic hypotension; that didn’t happen here. There’s a laceration in Dr. DiMaio’s book, and it’s a wound caused by a baseball bat. That’s just like the wound on Kathleen Savio’s head. That injury could also have been caused by a pipe or a pool cue; it’s a blunt injury. Dr. Blum also said it could be caused by a weapon. If she’s only stunned, and you go under water in a tub, are you going to stay there? Not hardly.”

“I asked him [Dr. DiMaio] if he could give me one single case of a healthy adult drowned in a bath tub, and he could not. He could not give me one case where a healthy adult drowned in a bath tub.”

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“You know in your every day life if you have a problem with a brain injury, you’re not going to your general practitioner, you’re going to your neurologist. And she was unwavering in this case that this injury was not caused in that bath tub.” Objection/Sustained. “Look how she’s wedged in that tub . . . half of her foot is blanched. That’s not how someone would come to rest naturally . . . there was dried blood on her face. Dr. Blum said for that to happen, her face couldn’t have been sitting in water. You know that from your every day experiences.”

“An issue was raised in regard to when she was killed. Mike VanOver said the rigor was slight when he got there, and the next day the rigor was gone . . . if you go back, that puts you into the early morning hours of Sunday. And that’s the time that Stacy Peterson said that Drew Peterson was gone from the house

“The defendant made statements on national television, and the transcripts of two of those statements have been admitted into evidence. You heard mention by Mr. Lopez of the three-day weekend. When he was on CNN, he was asked about what happened. ‘I don’t know . . . I was working; I was a watch commander at the police department, and the previous night she had failed to respond at the door to allow me to bring the children home . . . that was unusual for her, so I started calling on the phone, and I alerted the neighbors . . .’ Clearly, out of the defendant’s own mouth, that says that he didn’t think this was a three-day weekend. And there were 12 phone calls throughout the day to Kathleen Savio’s house . . . “ Objection.

The defense asks for a sidebar.

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The sidebar ends. “If we look at the defendant’s behavior, he committed the murder on the early hours of Sunday morning. He clearly emphasizes on national television how unusual it was for her not to be there. And he couldn’t go into the house without her accusing him of stealing stuff . . . he was afraid to go into the house. This isn’t a picture of a smooth relationship . . . he’s the watch commander, in uniform, and his wife isn’t there to pick up the kids, isn’t answering the phone. Mary Pontarelli is 35 feet away. And he doesn’t reach out to her? He also doesn’t try to reach out to her boyfriend, Steve Maniaci. He had his phone number . . . he’s the watch commander, the top banana, he’s in charge . . . he’s a sergeant, and he’s the watch commander. He takes the children home, and then a series of phone calls begins from his house to Kathleen Savio’s house. He did an interview on NBC News, and he said ‘I was one of the first people there, and I was actually the watch commander . . . I went ahead and met with her best friend . . . I was planning the next day, Tuesday, to go into her home with the neighbor. But the neighbor wanted to go in that night.’ The neighbor was upset, not the watch commander. ‘Kathy didn’t want me in her house; she was always afraid I was going to steal something.’ I would submit that as a police officer for decades, having gone on wellness checks, as a certified evidence technician, that his behavior shows consciousness of guilt. That Sunday night, he doesn’t go in, because no one has yet found the body . . . he collects a band of civilians, and they go in the house in the middle of the night . . . how many red flags would go off in a policeman’s mind? There could still be an intruder in the house.”

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“You have police backup when you do these wellness checks. Instead, we have a woman and a 14-year-old boy going in there. Why? Because he knows what they’re going to find in there. He hears this loud scream; he goes into the house . . . he’s got a scream, he’s in uniform; it should be his duty immediately to spring up the stairs . . . once he gets upstairs, you heard Chris Koch’s description of what goes on there.”

“You heard what Mr. Lopez said about Mary Parks . . . you know she had met Kathy Savio at school. And just before Thanksgiving, Kathy Savio appeared at school wearing a fleece pull-up . . . she saw marks on her neck, and Kathy Savio told her that Drew said, ‘You should just die.’” Objection.

The parties approach the bench for a sidebar.

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The sidebar ends, and the jurors have left the courtroom.
Attorney Greenberg puts on the record the defense objection to this line of argument. Prosecutor Glasgow responds, says that Mary Parks “saw red marks on her neck . . . and she told her that Drew Peterson hold her down and said, ‘You should just die.’”

The judge overrules the objection, and sends for the jury.

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The jurors are now back in the courtroom, and prosecutor Glasgow resumes his rebuttal. “Again, clearly Mary Parks was talking about an incident at Thanksgiving, 2003, not the July 5 incident. Yet you were told that it was the same incident. Kristin Anderson came in there and testified she lived with Kathy Savio for a couple of months, and she moved out on the 25th of November. That’s just before the incident that occurred with Mary Parks. Kristin Anderson indicated she had a heart-to-heart conversation with Kathy Savio . . . she’s a compassionate person, and she and Kathy were having a heart-felt moment, at which time Kathy told her Drew Peterson had said to her, ‘I could kill you, and make it look like an accident.’ She made three separate phone calls to the State Police . . . the records are there . . . she never got a call back, until much later. So she made effort to report it, and it fell on deaf ears. She made that effort to call. I think a lot of people wouldn’t go that far.”

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“Anna Doman testified her sister told her just a few weeks before she was killed that Drew Peterson said, ‘I’m going to kill you’ . . . that statement rings true. And that’s what happened when Kathy and Anna had that conversation. Susan Doman also had spoken with her sister, and was told the same thing Kristin Anderson was killed, that Drew Peterson said, ‘I could kill you, and make it look like an accident.’ We know how rare these drownings are in tubs, these accidental drownings . . . the evidence shows Drew Peterson drowned her; it was made to look like an accidental drowning.”

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“That brings us to Neil Schori, Pastor Neil Schori. He told you he had been counseling Stacy Peterson, and got a call on the 30th of August, asking for an appointment the next day . . . he is very cautious in his professional life, to maintain his integrity. At one point, she was crying . . . and proceeded to tell him that Drew Peterson had killed Kathy Peterson . . . she said she’d gone to bed with Drew, woke up during the evening, and he was gone . . . she tried to reach him by phone, and was unsuccessful. IN the middle of the night, he came back, all dressed in black, and put his clothes into the washing machine . . . she looked into the washing machine ,and saw women’s clothes that weren’t hers. . . she said she lied to the police on his behalf. We know Harry Smith got a call from Stacy Peterson, asking if she could use in her divorce how Drew Peterson killed Kathy Peterson. She also said that Drew Peterson was very angry at her, because he thought she had told Tommy Peterson that Drew killed his [Tom’s] mother . . . the same Tommy Peterson who came in her and testified. And Jeffrey Pachter . . . he did not call the police; the police called him. The defense trashed him, made him look like the most demonic person who ever came into a courtroom. Drew chose him because he did have his problems and might not be believable . . . but he was believable, and he gave the statement that you heard. He didn’t embellish it . . . so if he’s coming in here to make a name for himself, write a book, or make a lot of money for himself, he’d come up with a better story than that . . . in fact, what did he get out of coming in here, except having the world know he’s a registered sex offender? He basically paid a price for coming in here . . . he suffered embarrassment by coming in here.” Objection/Sustained.

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“The incident Kathy Savio reported, the July 5th incident . . . she wrote the knife in there, and then crossed it out . .. she told Ofc. Kernc that she did not want him to lose his job . . . she’s trying to make ends meet. And if her husband does not have a job . . .” Objection.

The defense asks for a sidebar.

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The sidebar ends. The jurors are excused from the courtroom.

Attorney Joel Brodsky addresses the judge, claims that the State has injected information before the jury that was previously stricken. The State responds, reads from the transcript of Teresa Kernc’s testimony. Judge: “The [defense] objection is overruled.”

He sends for the jury.

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The jurors are back in the courtroom. “Mr. Lopez talked to you about circumstantial evidence. The hearsay presented to you is substantial evidence, the same as if the person was here on the stand . . . circumstantial evidence can many times be more powerful than direct evidence . . . if you combine the circumstantial evidence, with the expert testimony, Stacy’s evidence, the hiring of a hit man . . . when we combine the reasonable inferences from each of those pieces of evidence, you can absolutely see that this case has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s solid, it’s real, and it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Drew Peterson murdered Kathleen Savio in cold blood. And we ask you to go to the jury room and return a verdict of guilty.”

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Peterson trial blog: Jury instructions to be read Wednesday

September 4, 4:25 p.m. Jury has been dismissed for the day. They will be read instructions in the morning.

Updates at link
http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-drew-pe ... .htmlstory

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