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| Drew Peterson Photo by Paul Huebl |
Joliet, IL—Judge Edward Burmila angrily chastised the prosecution
for their “low blow” making it clear that their conduct was deliberate and
designed to deny the retired Bolingbrook IL police sergeant a fair trial.
The judge denied the defense request for a Mistrial and now
double jeopardy is firmly attached if for no other reason on the judge’s comments to
the jury alone.
Burmila tried to resolve the issue with an inappropriate
compromise solution to strike the entire testimony of a witness. The Peterson defense team turned that down
simply because this was an all or noting proposition.
Burmila apparently struck a portion of the testimony from the
record but that action was a woefully inadequate remedy for this intentional
prosecutorial misconduct.
The Peterson trial is in such a shambles now, that no
appeals court could ever affirm Judge Burmila’s denial of the mistrial. I doubt that they’d ever allow for another
trial under the circumstances.
It’s so obvious to the legal community that the state
instigated a mistrial because they are unable to proceed. For Will County State’s Attorney James
Glasgow, it is the easiest and cheapest way to fold his cards and somehow save
face.
In two days there were two egregious violations by the
prosecution that were unforgivable.
Will County prosecutors have forever tainted the jury.
I know that prosecutors are dealing with witnesses that have
blabbed numerous conflicting and ever more embellished versions of their
stories to anyone who would listen. It will take a bus to transport potential impeachment witnesses in to testify once the defense begins. The prosecution witnesses have enjoyed their attachment to this celebrity driven case to the
chagrin of prosecutors that now must try and rehabilitate them. It will prove impossible.
Too many of the state’s witnesses are unreliable, drug dependent convicted
criminals but it’s likely that this critical information will be withheld from
the jury.
Additionally several of the state’s witnesses will gain
financially only if Peterson is convicted.
We all know how money corrupts. Might some of the near-do-well, heavily
tattooed and pierced relatives of Kathleen Savio be on the road to perjure their way to wealth?
Stay
tuned because there are more fireworks to come!
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