Top Prosecutor Wants to Stay Off Witness Stand in Drew Peterson Case
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow is trying to derail a plan by convicted wife-killer Drew Peterson's lawyers to put him on the witness stand.
The man who won the Drew Peterson case wants no part of taking the witness stand at a hearing next week to decide whether the convicted wife-killer should get a new murder trial. Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow filed court papers asking Judge Edward Burmila to bar Peterson's lawyers from calling him as a witness. The motion says Peterson's lawyers revealed their plans to call Glasgow as a witness nearly two weeks ago, but that the state's attorney should not have to testify. "A prosecutor, judge or news reporter is a 'special witness,'" the motion says. And if Peterson's lawyers want to get any of those kind of people on the stand, they must disclose what the witness is expected to say, why the testimony would be relevant, and …
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Ernie Knight
1:34 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
When the Illinois Appellate Court ruled on admissible heresay in this case, they specifically REJECTED the new law. All heresay admitted was based on existing statute and case law. Read the Chicago Tribune's account. Others failed to go into detail and explain that. more ›