Drew Peterson’s attorneys asked for more time after the former cop petitioned to vacate the jury’s verdict more than nine years after he was found guilty of killing his ex-wife. From the Aurora Beacon-News.
Drew Peterson’s attorneys asked for more time Monday as they interview witnesses and plan further arguments afterto vacate the jury’s verdict more than nine years after he was found guilty of killing his ex-wife.
In 2012, Peterson was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Her death was reexamined after Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, went missing in 2007. The former Bolingbrook police sergeant has been identified as a suspect, but never charged, in Stacy’s disappearance, which remains an open investigation.
Peterson also argues that two of the state’s key witnesses, Neil Schori and Harry Smith, should not have been allowed to testify about what Stacy Peterson told them regarding Savio’s death or her own concerns about her husband. Peterson argues conversations with Schori, a pastor, and Smith, an attorney, should have been privileged. However, both were allowed to testify under the state’s hearsay law.
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