By John Dempsey, WLS nEWS
(CHICAGO) The Illinois Appellate Court has dealt a blow to former Bolingbrook Police Sergeant Drew Peterson. The Third District Appellate Court has rejected Peterson’s appeal of his 2012 murder conviction, for the 2004 murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio.
The court found that the evidence was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was guilty of Savio’s murder.
The court also rejected all of the arguments Peterson’s attorney Steve Greenburg put forth, including the argument that former Peterson attorney Joel Brodsky was incompetent, and the argument that the trial judge should not have allowed hearsay testimony from Peterson’s missing and presumed dead fourth wife Stacy, with whom Peterson was having an affair at the time of the Savio murder. Several witnesses testified in court who testified Stacy Peterson had told them that Drew Peterson was involved in Savio’s murder.
Greenburg, says he is disappointed in the ruling but is vowing to appeal.
Peterson is currently serving a 38 year prison sentence. He is also facing charges that while in prison, he conspired to kill Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, the prosecutor who put him behind bars.
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