Will County Judge Edward Burmila is scheduled Monday to consider Drew Peterson’s hand-printed motion sent from an Indiana prison to vacate his conviction after determining he had presented a “gist of a constitutional” claim.
Peterson says his attorney, Joel Brodsky, was ineffective. He argues that Brodsky gave bad advice, such as urging him not to testify and threatening to quit if he did. He paints Brodsky as a publicity hound.
Finally, Peterson says he was the victim of hearsay evidence that should never have been presented to jurors. Peterson was the first criminal defendant in Illinois history to be tried after Glasgow helped push through a law dubbed "Drew’s Law." It allowed Savio and Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy, who disappeared in 2007, to "speak from their graves" via people who testified that both women told them things that implicated Peterson in the killing.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Peterson’s appeal once, Phil Turner, a former federal prosecutor who isn’t involved with the case, said there’s a chance the high court might want to hear his arguments concerning the prosecutor.WHAT’S NEXT?
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