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« Reply #500 on: August 14, 2012, 12:31:26 PM »

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-drew-peterson-trial-updates-prosecutors-to-call-forensic-pathologist-20120814,0,6705433.story

11:03 a.m. CDT, August 14, 2012
Continual coverage of the trial of Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
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10:45 a.m. Lab's testing under scrutiny
Dr. Christopher Long admitted his lab found the base compound of aspirin in Kathleen Savio's liver in 2007 that was not found in 2004, as the defense tried to show his lab's testing was incomplete.

On redirect, Long said the reason no further testing for the compound was done in 2007 was because none was found in the tests three years earlier and because the chemical is a natural byproduct of decomposition.

"Unless they start taking aspirin while they're in the coffin, there ain't no way it's going to be there," Long said. "If it's not there in the start, it can't be there in the end."
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« Reply #501 on: August 14, 2012, 01:25:31 PM »

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12:11 p.m. CDT, August 14, 2012
Continual coverage of the trial of Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
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11:55 a.m. Alleged statement by Peterson barred
In a second motion, the defense tried to block testimony from Stacy Peterson's aunt, Candace Aikin, and Aikin’s friend Donna Badalamenti. They were expected to tell the jury that the defendant said that as a result of his training as a police officer, he could kill someone and make it look like an accident. Drew Peterson allegedly made the statement after Kathleen Savio’s death.

Prosecutors argued that not only could they show Peterson had the training necessary, but that his alleged statement shows he was confident he could do it.

But Judge Edward Burmila sided with the defense, saying that because the statement did not refer to Savio, it was too general and therefore too prejudicial.
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11:50 a.m. Cop can testify about Savio statement
The jury was out of the courtroom for nearly an hour as attorneys argued over whether a Bolingbrook police officer who took a written statement from Kathleen Savio about an alleged break-in at her home by Peterson would also be able to testify about oral statements Savio made.

The officer is expected to say that Savio told her that in July 2002, Drew Peterson surprised her at her home and forced her to sit and talk with him for three hours. The officer will say Savio told her she told Peterson to just "do what he came to do," to which he responded "Where do you want it?"

When Savio said he should shoot her in the head, he said he could never kill her and then pulled out a knife before leaving.

The defense argued that the state should not be allowed to use both the written statement or the more expansive testimony from the officer, but Judge Edward Burmila ruled that the officer would be allowed to tell jurors about her conversation with Savio.
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« Reply #502 on: August 14, 2012, 04:18:20 PM »

 
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Judge-again-considering-Drew-Peterson-mistrial-3786054.php
Judge again considering Drew Peterson mistrial
Updated 3:02 p.m., Tuesday, August 14, 2012

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — The judge at Drew Peterson's murder trial is again considering a mistrial.

Judge Edward Burmila on Tuesday blasted prosecutors for violating his order not to discuss whether the former police officer's third wife, Kathleen Savio, once asked for an order of protection against him. Peterson is charged in her 2004 death.

Peterson's attorneys called the prosecution's actions unfair. The judge gave prosecutors a short time to respond Tuesday afternoon.
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« Reply #503 on: August 14, 2012, 04:49:34 PM »

You interjected order of protection into this case when I said don’t do that," he said. "There was only one thing I said you can’t go into and that’s exactly what you did."

Burmila said this would be the third time he would need to instruct the jury to disregard a prosecutor’s misstep and to do it a third time it may impact the state’s ability to get a fair trial.

He gave prosecutors until 3 p.m. to propose a remedy.

Why are they doing this he could go free what's wrong with them 
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« Reply #504 on: August 14, 2012, 05:13:34 PM »

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2:15 p.m. 'I can't hurt you'
In July 2002, Bolingbrook police officer Teresa Kernc went to Kathleen Savio’s home with another officer, who is now deceased, to take a report from Savio.

Kernc testified that she believed Savio’s two sons were living at the residence, but were at camp at the time.

Yes, I knew who she was married to. She was married to the defendant," Kernc said from the witness stand.

The interview with Savio took place in the living room, Kernc said.

"Well, I asked her to tell me why she had called. And she proceeded to tell the reason. She said that on July 5th, she had taken her two sons to day camp in the morning and gone to the market, and when she returned from the market, she entered her home and returned upstairs to collect her laundry — she was going to do laundry. As she came down the stairs, she saw the defendant dressed in his SWAT uniform and black gloves coming from the living room into the foyer.

"He pushed her down on the stairs, and when she tried to rise, he pushed her down again. He told her she was a mean bitch, she wouldn’t speak to him when he called, wouldn’t speak to her when he brought the boys over, and he was going to speak to her now. He spent the next three and a half hours going through their life, trying to get her to say things were her fault.

"He asked if she was afraid of him or scared, and she said yes she was. She said that she got tired of sitting there on that stairs and she told him, ‘Go or do what you came to do — kill me.’ And she said he said, ‘Where do you want it?’ And she said in the head. And he took his knife out and told her to turn her head, and she did and then waited and then he said, ‘I can’t hurt you.’

"He got up at some point and looked outside…He looked out the window. She said that he was very tired and upset that day and, um, he asked her are you going to call the Bolingbrook police?"
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1:45 p.m. Former cop, current mayor takes stand
The trial resumed this afternoon with the second witness of the day, former Bolingbrook police officer Teresa Kernc, who retired as a lietenant in 2005. She is the mayor of the Village of Diamond, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago.

She took a police report from Kathleen Savio after Drew Peterson allegedly threatened Savio with a knife.
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« Reply #505 on: August 14, 2012, 05:16:25 PM »

3:50 p.m. No ruling on mistrial today

Judge Edward Burmila says he will take mistrial motion under advisement and issue a ruling Wednesday morning.


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« Reply #506 on: August 14, 2012, 05:17:08 PM »

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3:52 p.m. CDT, August 14, 2012
Continual coverage of the trial of Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
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3:50 p.m. No ruling on mistrial today
Judge Edward Burmila says he will take mistrial motion under advisement and issue a ruling Wednesday morning.
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2:55 p.m. Mistrial options
A judge has several options for declaring a mistrial. The case could be tossed completely, what is called mistrial with prejudice, or a mistrial without prejudice could be declared, which would allow the state to retry the defendant with a new jury, experts said. Throwing the case out completely is extremely rare, experts have said.
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2:25 p.m. Another motion for mistrial
For the third time in as many weeks, the judge is considering mistrial in the Drew Peterson murder case. He has given prosecutors until 3 p.m. to come up with an appropriate response for their latest mishap.

The judge had ordered prosecutors not to make any mention of an order of protection during questioning of former Bolingbrook police officer Teresa Kernc because it’s too prejudicial to the jury and because Kathleen Savio never did obtain an order of protection against Peterson. Kernc was testifying about interviewing Savio after an alleged threat made against her by Peterson in 2002.

Just minutes into her questions, assistant state’s attorney Kathleen Patton asked Kernc if she suggested getting an order of protection to Savio. The question prompted an objection from the defense, and after the jury was escorted out of the courtroom, a strong rebuke from Judge Edward Burmila.

Burmila seemed incredulous, at times laughing in apparent frustration, after the misstep.

"You interjected order of protection into this case when I said don’t do that," he said. "There was only one thing I said you can’t go into and that’s exactly what you did."

Burmila said this would be the third time he would need to instruct the jury to disregard a prosecutor’s misstep and to do it a third time it may impact the state’s ability to get a fair trial.

He gave prosecutors until 3 p.m. to propose a remedy.

Patton, who apologized repeatedly and sounded shaken, offered various explainations for asking the question, including forgetting to cross it off a list of questions she’d written this morning.

"I can’t believe I did it," she told the judge, later adding, "It’s me judge, it’s me."

After the courtroom cleared, Patton walked to an empty courtroom nearby and stood alone, looking dejected, leaning against the jury box.

Defense attorney Steve Greenberg asked for a mistrial with prejudice — meaning the case would be dismissed, saying prosecutors had "went right through the wall" of an order Burmila had issued two hours ago.
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« Reply #507 on: August 14, 2012, 06:06:24 PM »

http://abcnews.go.com/US/drew-peterson-judge-considers-mistrial-time-murder-case/story?id=17005138

Drew Peterson Murder Case: Judge Considers Mistrial Again
Aug. 14, 2012

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The judge heard arguments from both sides this afternoon about whether the prosecution's repeated missteps deserved to be called a mistrial.
 
"Do I isolate this incident, or take into account all three major incidents in which the defendant asked for a mistrial?" Burmila asked prosecutor Chris Koch.

"Isolation is the proper way to look at it, your honor," Koch responded.

Stephen Greenberg, Peterson's defense attorney, argued that Peterson deserved a fair trial and the prosecution had not allowed that to happen.
 
"Ultimately what matters is giving Mr. Peterson a fair trial," Greenberg said. "I don't think we can characterize this as inadvertent because there was a very clear ruling giving by this court beforehand, and the fact is the question should not have been asked."
 
Burmila also scolded the defense for asking only for a mistrial with prejudice, a ruling that would forbid the state from retrying Peterson for the murder of Savio. A ruling of mistrial without prejudice would allow the state to retry the case.
 
"So you only want the kind of mistrial you want?" Burmila asked. "You don't say to the court, 'We only want a mistrial the way we want a mistrial.' You file the mistrial, and then I'll decide if it's with prejudice or not."
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« Reply #508 on: August 14, 2012, 06:23:07 PM »

Why does this trial remind me so much of one that happened last summer in Florida?  I think the defendant's name was Anthony?  And why am I so afraid that this one is going to end as unsatisfactorily for me as the previous one did as well? 

 
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« Reply #509 on: August 14, 2012, 06:24:14 PM »

Why does this trial remind me so much of one that happened last summer in Florida?  I think the defendant's name was Anthony?  And why am I so afraid that this one is going to end as unsatisfactorily for me as the previous one did as well? 

 

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« Reply #510 on: August 14, 2012, 07:29:32 PM »

Why does this trial remind me so much of one that happened last summer in Florida?  I think the defendant's name was Anthony?  And why am I so afraid that this one is going to end as unsatisfactorily for me as the previous one did as well? 

 

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Yep...hubs and I were just discussing this over dinner. Afraid that he is going to walk. What I wrong with these prosecutors?
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« Reply #511 on: August 14, 2012, 10:19:39 PM »

I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 
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« Reply #512 on: August 14, 2012, 10:23:11 PM »

I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 


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« Reply #513 on: August 14, 2012, 10:25:22 PM »

I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 


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Please let me qualify.  Those two deserve one another imo.  I hope Drew Peterson doesn't walk, but the way this case is going, I just don't know.  What the heck?  The prosecution's been playing pretty loose imo. 
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« Reply #514 on: August 15, 2012, 08:16:50 AM »

I guess we have to wait and see what the prosecution's "blunder" might cost the cause for justice for Kathleen.   

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/08/15/peterson_judge_again_to_rule_on_mistrial_motion/
Peterson judge, again, to rule on mistrial motion
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Peterson judge, again, to rule on mistrial motion
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JOLIET, Ill.—A judge is poised Wednesday to again decide whether to cut short former police officer Drew Peterson's murder trial -- the third time in as many weeks he is giving serious consideration to declaring a mistrial after a blunder by prosecutors.

Their latest misstep came as proceedings seemed to be going the prosecution's way as they sought to prove Peterson, 58, killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004. He was charged after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007.

Judge Edward Burmila seemed unmoved Tuesday by apologies from an attorney for the state after she broached a subject she was told not to mention to jurors -- raising the possibility that the trial could end with the judge letting Peterson go free.
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I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 


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« Reply #516 on: August 15, 2012, 09:17:20 AM »

I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 


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« Reply #517 on: August 15, 2012, 09:50:46 AM »

I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 


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Sounds like a winner.   
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« Reply #518 on: August 15, 2012, 10:00:42 AM »

I swear, if DP walks someone should introduce him to KC.  She'd make him a great 4th wife. 


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Sounds like a winner.   

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« Reply #519 on: August 15, 2012, 10:23:56 AM »

Motion for mistrial withdrawn; trial continues. 
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