just let loose with five years of frustration arguing the law and then the judge ruled our way. that was the turning point for me in the case and we never lost focus after that. judge jeanine: as someone who watched i don t think you ever lost focus. the question that everyone is asking now, what is going to happen with the stacy peterson case, the fourth wife, missing since october of 2007? yes. well, we had a hearing in 2010 and we one of the things we had to prove at that hearing is that drew peterson killed both kathleen savio and stacy peterson by a preponderance of the evidence and that is what judge white found. some reporters thought we had a good case with regards to stacey peterson. we will go back and review that not just because the reporter said so. when you don t have a body, judge, you know it can be defendant. and stacy has been missing for
just let loose with five years of frustration arguing the law and then the judge ruled our way. that was the turning point for me in the case and we never lost focus after that. judge jeanine: as someone who watched i don t think you ever lost focus. the question that everyone is asking now, what is going to happen with the stacy peterson case, the fourth wife, missing since october of 2007? yes. well, we had a hearing in 2010 and we one of the things we had to prove at that hearing is that drew peterson killed both kathleen savio and stacy peterson by a preponderance of the evidence and that is what judge white found. some reporters thought we had a good case with regards to stacey peterson. we will go back and review that not just because the reporter said so. when you don t have a body, judge, you know it can be defendant. and stacy has been missing for
affirmed everything i was doing they were like oh, maybe he is right and they did a 180. again, when you are being criticized by law school professors who never stepped foot in a courtroom it is kind of comical. judge jeanine: it wasn t just before the indictment and during the investigation. it was during the trial. i was there, jim, it was a beatdown of the prosecution every day. what i say against all odds it is not just almost a perfect crime. what it was was a judge who beat you down constantly and i know you are going before him again. were there days where you just wanted to say this is crazy? well, there were a number of rulings that were very difficult. the first week there seemed to be something in the area maybe the victory i had with the appellate court allowing certain statements in was going to be reversed at the trial court level and i had one of my assistants was up arguing and it wasn t going anywhere and i got up and stood behind her waiting for my turn and then
someone suggesting you didn t work really there. you had quite a team there. i don t think there was any question that several jurors placed the conviction at the feet of harry smith. another jury might have said something else and looked at it differently. i m bringing in the expert panel. former lapd homicide detective fox news contributor mark fuhrman. former prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys joey jackson and jeff gold. what you have here is a case where they got a conviction almost unheard of because of the hearsay evidence. joey, i will start with you. i mean is this going to survive an appeal? is this guy going to get off? first, we ll see about that. quickly, let me say this. number one, congratulations, you honor. you opened on it and summed on it it and summed on guilty, okay. i think also that the prosecution here in the closing really tied it all together and what was big in the closing was what you talked about in your
the defense team said there would be an appeal filed immediately and they re going to go after those hearsay statements that were submitted in this particular trial. jon? jon: i know the savio family overjoyed with that conviction as well as the prosecutor, huh? reporter: yeah. the prosecutor, james glascow, who kind of kept it a little quiet. he said he was guardedly confident going into the jury deliberations and is really not the type to cut loose but yesterday he really did and saved his harshest words for the very end for drew peterson. he was a thug. he would threaten people because he had a gun and a badge and nobody ever took him on. we took him on now and he lost. reporter: now, glascow says he is going to reexamine the stacy peterson case but there is key, real important different ren between these two cases. if you presume stacy peterson is dead, in the case of kathleen savio there was a body to reexamine and