On this Could 8, 2009, file picture, former Bolingbrook, Ailing., police officer Drew Peterson arrives for court docket in Joliet, Ailing. (AP Photograph/M. Spencer Inexperienced, File)
JOLIET, ILL. --
A decide on Monday delayed for 3 months a listening to on former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson's request to toss out his homicide conviction within the killing of his third spouse after his lawyer stated he wanted extra time.
Will County Decide Edward Burmila set the following listening to date for Could 18.
Throughout a quick listening to, Assistant Public Defender Jason Strzelcki advised the decide he wanted time to interview witnesses, a number of of whom stay exterior Illinois. He additionally stated he deliberate to amend the petition that Peterson filed himself final yr.
"We will likely be including a number of claims," stated Strzelcki, who didn't element what these may be.
The decide's determination retains alive Peterson's authorized effort to vacate his 2012 conviction of first-degree homicide within the 2004 slaying of Kathleen Savio. He was sentenced to 38 years in jail.
Savio's physique was present in a dry bathtub in her house. Her demise was initially dominated unintended, however after Peterson's fourth spouse, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007, authorities reopened the investigation. Her physique was exhumed and after a second post-mortem, her demise was categorised as a murder and Peterson was arrested.
Peterson can also be a suspect within the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, who's presumed lifeless. Drew Peterson has not been charged in her disappearance.
Peterson, who was a police sergeant in Bolingbrook, has maintained his innocence.
In his handwritten petition, he argued that he was offered ineffective counsel by his lead lawyer, Joel Brodsky. He additionally alleged that Will County State's Lawyer James Glasgow intimidated witnesses, a rivalry Glasgow has denied.
Peterson additionally argued that Burmila shouldn't have allowed a pastor and a divorce lawyer to offer rumour proof once they testified that Stacy Peterson talked to them about Savio's demise and her issues about her security.
Peterson stays in jail and didn't attend Monday's listening to. His lawyer, whom Burmila appointed to symbolize him, stated he did not imagine that Peterson would attend the Could 18 listening to both.
The decide may resolve then that there's sufficient data to go ahead, a call that would result in a listening to during which Brodsky, Glasgow and others may very well be referred to as to testify.
In 2016, he was sentenced to a further 40 years in jail for attempting to rent somebody to kill Glasgow.
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