08-14-2012, 06:31 PM
FOR FUCKS SAKE YOU AMATEUR PROSECUTORS!! GET YOUR DAMN ACT TOGETHER!! an idiot like brodsky is going to win this for a scumbag murderer??? another mistrial motion--->
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edit to add. wed.: defense withdrew motion for mistrial.
JOLIET, Ill. – The judge in Drew Peterson's murder case says he will announce his decision on a mistrial motion Wednesday morning.
Judge Edward Burmila is again considering a possible mistrial after another blunder from prosecutors in the former police officer's trial. Peterson attorney Joel Brodsky says the trial has been filled with "an avalanche of prejudicial, illegal evidence" and the case should be thrown out. Prosecutors argued against the move.
Peterson is accused in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He was charged after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007.
The judge on Tuesday afternoon berated a prosecutor after she raised an order of protection, a subject the judge previously barred. The prosecutor apologized to the judge, saying it was her fault.
Earlier, the judge barred two witnesses from testifying that the former Illinois police officer once boasted to them that he could make a murder look accidental.
Burmila agreed that admitting Peterson's alleged comment to Stacy Peterson's aunt and another woman would have created an unfair bias in jurors' minds. Both women were then removed from Tuesday's witness list.
Other witnesses have already testified that Peterson told Savio he could make her murder look accidental.
Also on Tuesday, Forensic toxicologist Christopher Long told jurors about tests done on tissue samples from Savio's body.
Authorities initially ruled that Savio accidentally drowned in her bathtub. But after the fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared, Savio's body was re-examined and her death was reclassified as a homicide.
Long told jurors that tests conducted on Savio's tissue in 2004 and 2007 found no sign of drugs or alcohol in her system.
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edit to add. wed.: defense withdrew motion for mistrial.
JOLIET, Ill. – The judge in Drew Peterson's murder case says he will announce his decision on a mistrial motion Wednesday morning.
Judge Edward Burmila is again considering a possible mistrial after another blunder from prosecutors in the former police officer's trial. Peterson attorney Joel Brodsky says the trial has been filled with "an avalanche of prejudicial, illegal evidence" and the case should be thrown out. Prosecutors argued against the move.
Peterson is accused in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He was charged after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007.
The judge on Tuesday afternoon berated a prosecutor after she raised an order of protection, a subject the judge previously barred. The prosecutor apologized to the judge, saying it was her fault.
Earlier, the judge barred two witnesses from testifying that the former Illinois police officer once boasted to them that he could make a murder look accidental.
Burmila agreed that admitting Peterson's alleged comment to Stacy Peterson's aunt and another woman would have created an unfair bias in jurors' minds. Both women were then removed from Tuesday's witness list.
Other witnesses have already testified that Peterson told Savio he could make her murder look accidental.
Also on Tuesday, Forensic toxicologist Christopher Long told jurors about tests done on tissue samples from Savio's body.
Authorities initially ruled that Savio accidentally drowned in her bathtub. But after the fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared, Savio's body was re-examined and her death was reclassified as a homicide.
Long told jurors that tests conducted on Savio's tissue in 2004 and 2007 found no sign of drugs or alcohol in her system.