As Drew Peterson’s appeals against his murder conviction repeatedly failed, it seemed the former suburban Chicago police sergeant might fade from the news.
But a decade after a jury convicted him in the slaying of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, Peterson has been given something from the judge who sentenced him to 38 years in prison: Another day in court.sent from an Indiana prison to vacate his conviction after determining he had presented a “gist of a constitutional” claim.
Finally, Peterson says he was the victim of hearsay evidence that should never have been presented to jurors. Peterson was the first criminal defendant in Illinois history to be tried after Glasgow helped push through a law dubbed “Drew’s Law.” It allowed Savio and Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy, who disappeared in 2007, to “speak from their graves” via people who testified that both women told them things that implicated Peterson in the killing.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Peterson’s appeal once, Phil Turner, a former federal prosecutor who isn’t involved with the case, said there’s a chance the high court might want to hear his arguments concerning the prosecutor.WHAT’S NEXT?
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