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Drew Peterson Meets With Attorney
May 11, 2009 3 hrs ago
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They just met for a little over an hour by closed circuit video. While his attorney would not go into the details of their conversation, he did give an update on how Peterson is holding up in jail. Brodsky describes Peterson's mood as buoyant and confident. "Obviously he knows how serious it is, we talked about how serious it is, but he's also being himself, cracking jokes," said Brodsky.

We asked Brodsky if he's disappointed in his client's demeanor. "That's what an innocent man will do. He's not acting, he's being himself," Brodsky said. He says Peterson is not changing who he is just to fit someone else's definition of how a murder suspect should or shouldn't act. "Some people faint, some people cry, drew reverts to humor and wise-cracking," said Brodsky.

VIDEO: Drew Peterson Meets With Attorney 1:33
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VIDEO: Dr. Baden: did Drew Peterson wife #3 struggle?
May 9th, 2009 7:31 PM Eastern
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Drew Peterson and his many wives
Published: May 8, 2009 at 12:42 PM
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The Drew Peterson case continues to read like a black-comedy version of "The Silence of the Lambs" done by "Monty Python's Flying Circus," with the Keystone Cops standing in for the FBI.

The Peterson case has a long way to go, and it will generate thousands of hours of prime time and millions of tabloid sales yet. In macroeconomic terms, it might even be argued that Peterson is therefore a timely blessing for the embattled U.S. media industry. Cynics can claim that all the attention the media is giving his case -- like so many other sleazy, tawdry tales of lust, rage and evil before him -- is a good argument for wiping out the entire popular media complex with the financial equivalent of a giant meteorite.

Article:
http://www.upi.com/news/issueofthed...terson-and-his-many-wives/UPI-67581241800959/

 

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Attorney for Peterson downplays charges
Published: May 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM
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Attorney Joel Brodsky said Friday during appearances on U.S. morning news shows the case against his client, Drew Peterson, is circumstantial at best.
Brodsky told "Good Morning America" his client previously had passed a lie detector test in Savio's death.

"He passed that polygraph exam 100 percent," Brodsky said.

Article:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/08/Attorney-for-Peterson-downplays-charges/UPI-79681241800261/

 

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Drew Peterson's Lawyer Wants $20 Million Bond Reduced
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Peterson, arrested Thursday, is being held in segregation at the Will County Adult Detention Facility in Joliet, both because he's a former Bolingbrook police officer and because his case is high-profile, Brodsky said.

And given the case's high profile, he said he'll likely ask the judge to move the case out of Will County or to seat a jury from outside of northern Illinois.

He said he hasn't made the decision yet because trying the case among people who know Peterson has its advantages.

"On one hand, Drew has been serving the citizens of Will County for 30 years, he's been a part of the thin blue line that's kept them safe, and he's certainly a well-known member of the community," Brodsky said. "On the other hand, obviously we have to worry about all the tremendous amount of negative publicity that's been given to him."

Photos: Life after his wife Stacy's disappearance
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VIDEO: Is Drew Peterson harming his own case? May 10, 2009 3:51
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Article:
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&#65279;Drew Peterson arrest: What happens to the kids?
Monday, May 11, 2009 6:34:03 PM
CHICAGO(AP)
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Drew Peterson, charged in the death of his third wife and suspected in the disappearance of his fourth, soon might face another legal battle: a custody fight.

The ex-cop had two children with Kathleen Savio, whom he's accused of killing, and another two with Stacy Peterson, who has been missing since 2007. Drew Peterson's adult son Stephen announced Monday that he has taken custody of the children, but relatives of Savio and Stacy Peterson are looking into whether they can change that.

"We'd seen a lawyer a ways back and were told we'd have to wait until he was charged," said Pamela Bosco, a friend of Stacy Peterson who has acted as a spokeswoman for her family. "We have to go back to a lawyer and see what's available to us."

Article:
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/National/2009/5/11/drew_peterson_arrest_what_happens_to_the_kids.html

 

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Drew Peterson's Son Issues Statement Of Support
Peterson Being Held In Will County Jail On $20 Million Bond
May 11, 2009 6:01 pm US/Central
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In it he says, "All of the children of Drew Peterson fully support their father and know that he is innocent of the charges against him. We know him better than anyone else in the world and we know he is not guilty."

He goes on to say that the two boys Peterson had with Kathleen Savio and the two children he had with Stacy Peterson are staying with him.

Those children were home Thursday when police entered their Bolingbrook house and removed them after their father had been pulled over in a traffic stop. Officers shielded the children's faces as they were taken from the house.

The former police sergeant is being held in the Will County Jail in segregation. He is allowed two half-hour visits a week and all visitors must be on a pre-approved guest list.

So far Peterson's attorney says the younger children have not seen their dad.

VIDEO: Drew Peterson's Son Issues Statement Of Support 1:46
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Article:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/drew.peterson.children.2.1007256.html

 

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Insider says Drew Peterson could make bond
Published: May 13, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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Ernie Raines, the father of Drew Peterson's live-in fiancee, says his daughter, Chrissy, told him Peterson has enough money to cover a $20 million bond, the Joliet Herald-News reported Wednesday.

Peterson's lawyer has complained the bond set in the first-degree murder case against his client is way out of line and will seek to get it dropped to something more affordable.

But Raines says Peterson has plenty of money, which he was using as bait to keep Chrissy Raines in his home.

He is due back in court on Monday.

Article:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05...-Peterson-could-make-bond/UPI-25851242226883/

 

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Drew Peterson Indictment - Illinois Policeman Charged
With Murdering Kathleen Savio, His Third Wife
Illinois v. Drew Peterson
May 7, 2009
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Illinois grand jury indicted former policeman Drew Peterson on first-degree murder charges for the slaying of his third wife Kathleen Savio

You can read Peterson&#8217;s indictment below:
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/crim/drew-peterson-indictment.html

 

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How Hearsay Evidence Could Help the Case Against Drew Peterson
By Steven Gray / Chicago Tuesday, May. 12, 2009
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For years, courts have allowed certain types of hearsay testimony. However, matters became complicated in 2004, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Crawford v. Washington, a case involving a husband, Michael Crawford, convicted of stabbing a man he claimed tried to rape his wife, Sylvia.

Then, in the case of Giles v.California last year, the Supreme Court ruled that statements to law enforcement officers are admissible as testimony if the defendant is found to have caused "unavailability."

Last fall came Illinois's new hearsay law &#8212; coincidentally, one of the last pieces of legislation signed by Rod Blagojevich before he left office in disgrace. The law seems to resemble the increasing number of statutes across the country essentially codifying the Giles decision. "A statement is not rendered inadmissible by the hearsay rule if it is offered against a party that has killed the declarant ... intending to procure the unavailability of the declarant as a witness in a criminal proceeding," the law states.

Those two Supreme Court cases, along with Illinois's law, may give Will County prosecutors key openings in their quest to invoke some of Savio's statements.

See the top 10 crime stories of 2008:
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Article:
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'DREW PETERSON LAW'
Drew Peterson law used in Warrenville slaying case
Slain girl's statements can be used by prosecutors at trial
Art Barnum
May 15, 2009
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Joshua Matthews, 24, of Maywood, is charged with the Oct. 9, 2005, slaying of former friend Sade Glover, 17, in the driveway of her Warrenville home. Prosecutors contend Glover was fatally shot numerous times because she had filed battery charges against him in July 2005 for punching her in the face when she refused to hide his marijuana while he was on parole from prison.

State legislators broadened the state's hearsay-statements law last year at the request of Will County prosecutors, who want to use similar statements against former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson, who is charged with killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and suspected in connection with the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.

Article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-dead-woman-talking-15-may15,0,5987016.story?track=rss
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Drew Peterson's divorce battle with Kathleen Savio investigated
Peterson stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, court documents say
May 15, 2009
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Harry Smith, the attorney who was representing Savio in her divorce , said this week he has turned over to prosecutors the subpoenas he had issued to Peterson regarding his pension and other financial matters.

Smith, who twice testified before the grand jury investigating Savio's death, said it's his understanding that the county has hired financial experts to determine exactly what the economic loss to Peterson would have been. A state's attorney's spokesman declined to comment.

"I'm sure that's what Peterson feared -- mostly that she was going to take everything from him," said Sue Doman, Savio's sister.

Article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson-divorce-15may15,0,6241154.story

 

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Savio's Letters Show Cries For Help
Updated: Friday, 08 May 2009, 10:01 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 08 May 2009, 7:45 PM CDT
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She wrote, "I really feel Drew is a loose cannon" in a letter sent to the Will County states attorney's office in November of 2002.

She also wrote, "He is out on the streets of Bolingbrook patrolling and just taking the law into his own hands. I haven't received help from the police here in Bolingbrook, and I&#8217;m (sic) asking for your help now before its too late."

Savio sent a similar plea for help to former Fox Chicago anchorman, Walter Jacobson.

"When I found out Mr. Peterson was having an affair with a minor at the police department, he began to get very violent," she wrote. She went on to say "he knows how to manipulate the system and his next step is to take my children away or kill me."

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&#8226;Kathleen Savio's Will
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&#8226;Letters From Kathleen Savio
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&#8226;Anonymous Letter To Kathleen Savio
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Savio's sister calls Drew Peterson evidence "strong"
Posted: 7:03 PM May 14, 2009
Last Updated: 10:05 AM May 15, 2009
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"He said to her I can kill you and I can make it look like an accident and no one will know." Statements like that from Kathleen Savio's sister Sue Doman, who lives in Machesney Park, make up much of the evidence prosecutors plan to use against former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson in his murder trial.

But Doman believes the evidence will hold up. She says, "My sister had over 100 pages of documentation of everything in her life. She documented all the times she tried to reach out to people and no one responded."

Doman will face Peterson in court during his next appearance Monday.
She says for the past five years she's visited her sister's grave, grieving and asking how she died. Savio's birthday is next month and Doman says she's looking forward to going there to celebrate what she hopes is justice being served.

VIDEO: Savio's Sister Calls Drew Peterson Evidence Strong
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Article:
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Peterson Faces Arraignment in Wife's Murder
Monday, May 18, 2009
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Former police officer Drew Peterson could be allowed to stay at his suburban Chicago home as he awaits a possible trial in the death of his third wife.

Peterson, who has been jailed since May 7, is scheduled to be formally arraigned Monday on first-degree murder charges in the 2004 slaying of Kathleen Savio. Peterson's attorney Joel Brodsky is expected to ask a judge to reduce Peterson's bond, which is now $20 million.

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Prosecutors: Divorce was possible Peterson motive
May 18
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Six days before Kathleen Savio&#8217;s lifeless body was found in an empty bathtub in her Bolingbrook, Ill., home, Drew Peterson&#8217;s lawyer prepared papers telling his client he had been subpoenaed and was to be deposed in his ongoing divorce battle.

Peterson, indicted last week on murder charges in Savio&#8217;s 2004 drowning death, stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in the divorce from the sale of the couple&#8217;s home and Sud&#8217;s Pub, his bar, according to court documents. Savio was also going after half of his police pension, which pays $6,000 a month.

Instead of losing a bundle, Peterson got just about everything after Savio&#8217;s death, including custody of their two children.

The Chicago Tribune has learned the state&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s office is making a closer examination of the divorce and what was at stake as it prepares for the prosecution of Peterson, who is scheduled to be arraigned today.

Article:
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Prosecutors__Divorce_was_possible_Peterson_motive_05-18-2009.html

 

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UPDATED: Drew Peterson Pleads Not Guilty In Savio's Death
Experts Say Peterson's Mouth Could Compound His Troubles
May 18, 2009 4:50 pm US/Central
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"We"ll enter a plea of not guilty to both counts," attorney Joel Brodsky said in court as Peterson stood next to him, dressed in blue jail fatigues.

Also in court Monday, prosecutors asked for a new judge because they say the current judge is prejudiced against them.

Peterson is in protective custody at the Will County Jail, instead of being held with other prisoners, Brodsky said.

"He's being treated well, and he's being taken care of," said Peterson attorney Reem Odeh.

"It's a little bit boring, but much better than normal jail circumstances," Brodsky added.

As prosecutors try to put him away, Peterson's words could play a big role even if he never takes the stand.

VIDEO: Peterson Pleads Not Guilty In Savio Case 2:19
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VIDEO: Peterson Prosecution Asks For A New Judge 3:10
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VIDEO-Analysis: Drew Peterson Criminal Case 2:21
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VIDEO-Analysis: How Can Drew Peterson Be Convicted? 2:03
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SLIDESHOW: The Search For Stacy
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Article:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/drew.peterson.kathleen.2.1011684.html

 

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Prosecutors seek new judge in Peterson case
May 18, 2009 9:16 AM
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UPDATE: Drew Peterson formally entered a plea of not guilty this morning on charges that he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Meanwhile, prosecutors have asked for a new judge to be assigned to the case. The hearing currently is in recess.

Drew Peterson is scheduled to be arraigned this morning on charges he murdered his third wife five years ago. But the major issue at that hearing is whether he will get his bond reduced.

The arraignment at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet had been delayed because Peterson's lead attorney, Joel Brodsky, was doing a series of media interviews in New York, proclaiming his client's innocence, the day after Peterson was arrested on a Bolingbrook street.

As with all murder defendants at arraignment, the former Bolingbrook police officer will plead not guilty. But the major news to come out of his court appearance will focus on whether a Will County judge will lower Peterson's $20 million bail.

Article:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/drew-peterson-to-be-arraigned-today.html

 

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Peterson Pleads Not Guilty in Murder
Updated: Monday, 18 May 2009, 11:08 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 18 May 2009, 7:23 AM EDT
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defense attorney has entered a not guilty plea for former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson in the 2004 death of Peterson's third wife.

Peterson stood silently in court Monday, wearing a blue jail jumpsuit and shackles.

Prosecutors filed a motion at the hearing asking for a new judge. State's Attorney James Glascow didn't give a reason, and court recessed while another judge was called to handle rest of the hearing.

Article:
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/national/dpg_Drew_Peterson_Arraignment_fc_20090518_2493743

 

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Ex-Cop Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Wife
May 18, 2009
posted: 2 HOURS 36 MINUTES AGO
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After his plea, prosecutors asked that Judge Richard Schoenstedt be removed from Peterson's case, citing "grounds of prejudice against the state."
In November, Schoenstedt dismissed felony gun charges against Peterson after Will County prosecutors refused to give the defense communications between Illinois State Police and the state's attorney's office. Those documents had led to Peterson's arrest on the gun charges.
The defense challenged the motion, and a hearing on the issue was set for Thursday before another judge.
The prosecution move derailed defense attorney Joel Brodsky's plan to ask that bail be cut from $20 million to less than $500,000.

Outside court after the arraignment, Savio's family said they did not want Peterson released on reduced bail. Savio's father, Henry, said his one wish is "to have this done."
Savio family members said they think money, specifically Peterson's pension, was a motive in the killing.

VIDEO: Peterson Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Charges
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VIDEO: Peterson Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Charges
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Drew Peterson's Words Could Spark Trouble
Murder Suspect's Relish Of Spotlight May Be Seen As Smart-Aleck Behavior; Enters Not Guilty Plea
CHICAGO, May 18, 2009
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Drew Peterson may not take the stand if he goes to trial for killing his third wife, but his words could still play a big role as prosecutors try to put him away.

What this trial is going to show - if we even get to trial - will be that there is absolutely no evidence that Drew did anything wrong, anything at all regarding Kathleen Savio's death," Brodsky told CBS' The Early Show.

Bloom said even though most people who sit on juries want to be fair, they can still end up being swayed by things that have nothing to do with evidence.

&#8220;They say they won't, but they can be impacted by innuendo, suspicion, speculation and moral judgment,&#8221; he said.

That explains why Peterson reminds Black of a lawyer who displayed a mounted fish on his wall.

&#8220;It had a sign that said, 'I wouldn't be here either if I kept my mouth shut,&#8221;' said Black, chuckling.

VIDEO: Peterson's Case For Freedom 1:34
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