in on the phone call. harry smith said that stacey called me and she said she knew drew had committed this murder, and i could hear drew in the background yelling at her, and that was the last i heard of stacy. it is not so much what she said, but it is him yelling in the background i think that was almost more damning. disastrous, here was a defense witness reinforcing the pastors story, greenberg blamed lead attorney for gambling by putting smith on the stand. did you know he was going to say? this sure. we knew it. i think what is widely recognized and sort of on the mount rushmore of legal mistakes it was the dumbest thing i had ever seen in a courtroom. as for drew peterson, the man who loved to talk, he decided not to take the stand in his own defense. after two days of deliberations, the jury came back, drew peterson guilty of first degree
name. everybody knows his name in chicago, now we didn t before, it worked. peterson now had a whole team of defense lawyers, attorney stephen greenberg was the last to join, and says he had a very different approach to speaking with the media. once i was in the case, there was no more of the shenanigans, there was no more calling the media or speaking to anyone. as both sides got ready for trial, prosecutors faced a major hurdle, they wanted to use witnesses to recount things both kathleen and stacey said to them about you. it is called hearsay testimony, but it is rarely allowed. and jupiter still knew from being a policeman, never give a hearsay statement that would die with the victim. prosecutor jim glasgow was going to challenge that. it was just a waiting game, and i thought if it is not going to be allowed what are we going to do? i don t know what would happen next. le pen coming up, did the