Lead lawyer, Joel Brodsky Chicago, IL —The Drew Peterson Inquisition was an un-American legal experience.   Trial by unprecedented hearsay testimony rather than evidence doomed Peterson to an adverse verdict.   This was to satisfy the lynch mob mentality that dictated the predetermined result.    There were no less that six lawyers defending Drew Peterson.  That was a recipe for dysfunction, anger and loathing.  I’ve seen it before even when the results were victorious such as in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.  When the stakes are high each lawyer has different ideas and sometimes the mixture of ideas become incredibly caustic.  As a criminal defense investigator and veteran of numerous murder trials I had my own ideas about Peterson’s defense direction.  I did not get to vote but sensed a disaster in the making, not from legal strategy but by the shocking perversion of the way this criminal trial was conducted. I kn...