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Drew Peterson Attorneys Make Latest
Argument For His Pre-Trial Release
June 3, 2011 4:02 PM
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CHICAGO (WBBM) – Attorneys for Drew
Peterson are asking that the former Bolingbrook
police sergeant be released from jail pending
trial for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen
Savio.
Peterson has been held in lieu of $20 million
bond in the Savio case since May 2009.
The day before the trial was to begin, 11 months
Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at
the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., Friday, May 8, 2009,
for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the
2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. (M. Spender
Green/AP)
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“There’s no danger to anyone if he’s released,” Brodsky said. ”There
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monitoring. They could put him on a curfew. They could put him under
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The motion notes that while he was still free to travel, but knew he was
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under suspicion in the Savio case, he traveled to California, Florida
and New York but never attempted to leave the United States and
always returned home to Bolingbrook, where he has lived in 1977.
Peterson is a lifelong
Chicago-area resident,
except for his years in the
military. The motion also
notes that Peterson’s
entire extended family lives
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“He has no place to go,”
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day, watches television,
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The motion will be filed with the Third District appellate court in
Ottawa, Ill., on Monday. The state has a week to reply, in writing.
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Brodsky is hoping for a ruling within two weeks.
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Savio was found dead in the drained bathtub of her Bolingbrook
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second autopsy, performed in 2008, found that the death was a
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Peterson has never been charged in connection with the October 2007
disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy. Members of Stacy Peterson’s
family have suspected the retired police officer from the beginning.
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