Bout time this Monster is comvicted!

2seaoat wrote:My understanding is that the legislature changed the law in 2008, and the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law. However, the appeal will certainly go beyond the Illinois Supreme Court. It will go to the United States Supreme Court, and just like the court not wanting to become judicial activist and overturn legislation in the health care bill.....they will be reluctant to overturn this decision, but this may have some fascinating written decisions, because some liberal judges are going to support this and some conservative judges are not......my personal opinion is that the Illinois Supreme Court is going to call for a new trial based on some errors the prosecution made which the defense called for a mistrial. By allowing a new trial on those errors, it buys time......but the defense attorneys will not sit by idle.....they will take the issue to the Supreme Court regardless because if they can win in the Supreme Court, the hearsay evidence will never see the light of day......and a guilty person will have a chance to beat the system.

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:My understanding is that the legislature changed the law in 2008, and the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law. However, the appeal will certainly go beyond the Illinois Supreme Court. It will go to the United States Supreme Court, and just like the court not wanting to become judicial activist and overturn legislation in the health care bill.....they will be reluctant to overturn this decision, but this may have some fascinating written decisions, because some liberal judges are going to support this and some conservative judges are not......my personal opinion is that the Illinois Supreme Court is going to call for a new trial based on some errors the prosecution made which the defense called for a mistrial. By allowing a new trial on those errors, it buys time......but the defense attorneys will not sit by idle.....they will take the issue to the Supreme Court regardless because if they can win in the Supreme Court, the hearsay evidence will never see the light of day......and a guilty person will have a chance to beat the system.

They defense can't object to the heresay evidence of Atty. Harry Smith because they called him as a witness.Just because there are errors does not mean the case will be overturned.They have what they call "harmless errors." The Geraldo panel last night discussed the Supreme Court and said Scalia will uphold the case because he has already ruled on killing a witness and heresay. They said you cannot kill a witness who will testify against you and then say what that witness said is heresay.

http://capitolfax.com/2012/09/07/how-the-will-county-states-attorney-the-general-assembly-and-rod-blagojevich-almost-botched-the-drew-peterson-case/

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:My understanding is that the legislature changed the law in 2008, and the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law. However, the appeal will certainly go beyond the Illinois Supreme Court. It will go to the United States Supreme Court, and just like the court not wanting to become judicial activist and overturn legislation in the health care bill.....they will be reluctant to overturn this decision, but this may have some fascinating written decisions, because some liberal judges are going to support this and some conservative judges are not......my personal opinion is that the Illinois Supreme Court is going to call for a new trial based on some errors the prosecution made which the defense called for a mistrial. By allowing a new trial on those errors, it buys time......but the defense attorneys will not sit by idle.....they will take the issue to the Supreme Court regardless because if they can win in the Supreme Court, the hearsay evidence will never see the light of day......and a guilty person will have a chance to beat the system.

They defense can't object to the heresay evidence of Atty. Harry Smith because they called him as a witness.Just because there are errors does not mean the case will be overturned.They have what they call "harmless errors." The Geraldo panel last night discussed the Supreme Court and said Scalia will uphold the case because he has already ruled on killing a witness and heresay. They said you cannot kill a witness who will testify against you and then say what that witness said is heresay.

http://capitolfax.com/2012/09/07/how-the-will-county-states-attorney-the-general-assembly-and-rod-blagojevich-almost-botched-the-drew-peterson-case/

There is only one problem with that concept. The person making the statement was Stacy and she may not be dead. Thus since they do not know for sure if she is dead or not, the 6th Amendment is alive and well in this case as his attorneys have said.

Dreamsglore wrote:

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:My understanding is that the legislature changed the law in 2008, and the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law. However, the appeal will certainly go beyond the Illinois Supreme Court. It will go to the United States Supreme Court, and just like the court not wanting to become judicial activist and overturn legislation in the health care bill.....they will be reluctant to overturn this decision, but this may have some fascinating written decisions, because some liberal judges are going to support this and some conservative judges are not......my personal opinion is that the Illinois Supreme Court is going to call for a new trial based on some errors the prosecution made which the defense called for a mistrial. By allowing a new trial on those errors, it buys time......but the defense attorneys will not sit by idle.....they will take the issue to the Supreme Court regardless because if they can win in the Supreme Court, the hearsay evidence will never see the light of day......and a guilty person will have a chance to beat the system.

They defense can't object to the heresay evidence of Atty. Harry Smith because they called him as a witness.Just because there are errors does not mean the case will be overturned.They have what they call "harmless errors." The Geraldo panel last night discussed the Supreme Court and said Scalia will uphold the case because he has already ruled on killing a witness and heresay. They said you cannot kill a witness who will testify against you and then say what that witness said is heresay.

http://capitolfax.com/2012/09/07/how-the-will-county-states-attorney-the-general-assembly-and-rod-blagojevich-almost-botched-the-drew-peterson-case/

There is only one problem with that concept. The person making the statement was Stacy and she may not be dead. Thus since they do not know for sure if she is dead or not, the 6th Amendment is alive and well in this case as his attorneys have said.

Stacey is dead. As the atty. said last night in this electronic age there is no way there would not be any trace of her for 5 years besides the case is national news.There is no reason for her to remain silent and allow Drew to be prosecuted for her statements.

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:My understanding is that the legislature changed the law in 2008, and the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law. However, the appeal will certainly go beyond the Illinois Supreme Court. It will go to the United States Supreme Court, and just like the court not wanting to become judicial activist and overturn legislation in the health care bill.....they will be reluctant to overturn this decision, but this may have some fascinating written decisions, because some liberal judges are going to support this and some conservative judges are not......my personal opinion is that the Illinois Supreme Court is going to call for a new trial based on some errors the prosecution made which the defense called for a mistrial. By allowing a new trial on those errors, it buys time......but the defense attorneys will not sit by idle.....they will take the issue to the Supreme Court regardless because if they can win in the Supreme Court, the hearsay evidence will never see the light of day......and a guilty person will have a chance to beat the system.

They defense can't object to the heresay evidence of Atty. Harry Smith because they called him as a witness.Just because there are errors does not mean the case will be overturned.They have what they call "harmless errors." The Geraldo panel last night discussed the Supreme Court and said Scalia will uphold the case because he has already ruled on killing a witness and heresay. They said you cannot kill a witness who will testify against you and then say what that witness said is heresay.

http://capitolfax.com/2012/09/07/how-the-will-county-states-attorney-the-general-assembly-and-rod-blagojevich-almost-botched-the-drew-peterson-case/

There is only one problem with that concept. The person making the statement was Stacy and she may not be dead. Thus since they do not know for sure if she is dead or not, the 6th Amendment is alive and well in this case as his attorneys have said.

Stacey is dead. As the atty. said last night in this electronic age there is no way there would not be any trace of her for 5 years besides the case is national news.There is no reason for her to remain silent and allow Drew to be prosecuted for her statements.

Of course we all know that she is dead, but someone has to take action to have her declared legally dead or else in the eyes of the law she is still alive. At the present time it is a presumptive death.

With your above comment, are you saying that it is impossible for someone to disappear without a trace? It can and does happen.