Drew Peterson back in court, attorneys granted fitness evaluation
Peterson is due back in court next month.
Peterson is due back in court next month.
It was his first appearance since his lawyers filed a petition to overturn his 2012 conviction. He claimed he was denied effective legal representation when he wasn't allowed to testify in his murder trial.
Former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson's new attorney on Monday asked for more time to prepare for a hearing seeking to vacate his 2012 conviction in the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
A Will County judge says he found a "gist of a constitutional" claim in Peterson's hand-written petition to vacate his conviction.
In 2012, Peterson was convicted of killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
The search is not over for missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson, nearly 14 years after her disappearance. In the years since, her husband Drew Peterson went to prison, her children grew up without their mother, and the Peterson family is fractured.
Authorities were searching in Lockport Tuesday in the search for Stacy Peterson – the fourth wife of convicted murderer Drew Peterson who has been missing for 14 years – but Peterson's sister said she was told nothing was found.
Convicted killer Drew Peterson has been transferred out of federal prison.
Attorney Joel A. Brodsky, who represented convicted wife killer Drew Peterson, has been suspended from practicing law in Illinois effective immediately, according to the Illinois Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson's appeal of his murder conviction following the drowning death of his third wife.
Drew Peterson has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider hearsay evidence in a murder conviction upheld last year by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Stacy wanted out of her marriage to Drew when she vanished.
The use of hearsay testimony to convict former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson in the death of his third wife was proper, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday in upholding the conviction.
The motivation for the attack was to get some of the convicted murderer's belongings and sell them on eBay, a source tells WBBM.
In February, Drew Peterson was transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to a high-security federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The reason for convicted wife killer Drew Peterson's transfer from an Illinois prison to a federal facility in Indiana remained a mystery on Wednesday, but his attorney said whatever the basis might be, the former Bolingbrook police officer is "probably better off."
Convicted killer Drew Peterson, serving a total of 78 years in prison, was no longer in state custody on Tuesday, but Illinois Department of Corrections officials would not provide his whereabouts.
"I think this is the first time I ever even said that out loud that I think he probably did it," Stephen Peterson said.
Peterson's lawyer, Steve Greenberg, argues that just being convicted in Savio's death does not allow the board to revoke Peterson's pension benefits.
Former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who helped to convict him in the murder of his third wife.
Drew Peterson will be sentenced on Friday for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who helped to convict him in the killing of his third wife.
From a courtroom outburst to prison cell conversations, the recordings presented at Drew Peterson's latest trial were released on Tuesday.
Jurors have found former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson guilty of trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who helped convict him in his third wife's death.
The murder-for-hire trial of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson is winding down.
The former suburban Chicago police officer can be heard telling Antonio Smith "there was no turning back" on the hit, in recordings played Tuesday in a southern Illinois courtroom.
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The nine runs were a season-high for the Sox.
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Health officials are warning consumers not to consume Infinite Herbs basil sold at some Trader Joe's and Dierberg's stores after 12 people were sickened.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson denied that the Bears' shiny new dome could end up costing taxpayers a pretty penny.
Employees at dozens of now-closed Foxtrot Market and Dom's Kitchen stores, now jobless, wonder what comes next for them as their paychecks will soon end.
The company announced Tuesday that it received a stalking horse bid to purchase its operating assets.
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Jeremy Mack, 28, of the West Garfield Park neighborhood, was charged with multiple felony counts.
The warrant accused Xavier Tate of firing a .40-caliber handgun and killing Huesca.
The Bears also have the No. 122 overall pick in the fourth round on Saturday.
Jeremy Mack, 28, of the West Garfield Park neighborhood, was charged with multiple felony counts.
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Anthony Robinson's attorney said his previous defense lawyer failed to present evidence that showed it was physically impossible for him to be the shooter.
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DCFS Director Heidi Mueller was asked Thursday why some kids in the system are being held in psychiatric hospitals longer than medically necessary.
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The Bears' two newest players were both in Chicago to be introduced at Halas Hall on Friday.
Odunze was a star receiver at Washington and is coming off a year with 92 receptions and more than 1,600 yards, earning him All-American honors.
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The daughter escaped and was not in custody late Friday the source said.
Jeremy Mack, 28, of the West Garfield Park neighborhood, was charged with multiple felony counts.