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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 1896113" data-attributes="member: 1294">[Drew Peterson, the former Illinois police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger wife vanished in 2007, was convicted Thursday of murdering a previous wife in a case centered on secondhand hearsay statements from both women.The trial was the first of its kind in Illinois history, with prosecutors building their case largely on hearsay thanks to a new law, dubbed &quot;Drew&#039;s Law,&quot; tailored to Peterson&#039;s case. That hearsay, prosecutors had said, would let his third and fourth wives &quot;speak from their graves&quot; through family and friends to convict Peterson.]<a href="http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/2012/09/drew-peterson-hearsay-and-conf.html" target="_blank">http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/2012/09/drew-peterson-hearsay-and-conf.html</a>I can&#039;t help but think of a post the other day in another thread by Dave70968&quot;Due process exists for a reason. If you abandon it even once, you establish a precedent that eventually will reach yourself.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 1896113, member: 1294"] [Drew Peterson, the former Illinois police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger wife vanished in 2007, was convicted Thursday of murdering a previous wife in a case centered on secondhand hearsay statements from both women. The trial was the first of its kind in Illinois history, [B]with prosecutors building their case largely on hearsay thanks to a new law, dubbed "Drew's Law," tailored to Peterson's case.[/B] [B]That hearsay, prosecutors had said, would let his third and fourth wives "speak from their graves" through family and friends to convict Peterson.][/B] [url]http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/2012/09/drew-peterson-hearsay-and-conf.html[/url] I can't help but think of a post the other day in another thread by Dave70968 "Due process exists for a reason. If you abandon it even once, you establish a precedent that eventually will reach yourself." [/QUOTE]

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