wouldn t have to pay her divorce money, that i should be able to get away with the murder on the grounds of hearsay? there is something called forfeiture by wrongdoing. you forfeit the right to claim hearsay when you kill the witness in order to stop her from testifying. gregg: the defense still has a shot of getting this conviction thrown out by going up on appeal. there was a motion before the trial ever occurred in which they challenged this hearsay evidence. it wasn t all the way through the court system to the appellate court in illinois. what does that tell you, gregg? gregg: it tells me the supreme court in illinois could decide differently. what it tells us, as lawyers, the of two us, that the appellate courts have already ruled. the motion in limeine said this is allowable and the judge has limited what the appellate court said. gregg: it didn t go to the illinois supreme court, did it? it went to the appellate court. the bottom behind, the hearsay has been allowed