Blame it on Drew Peterson, Says Killer Chris Vaughn's Lawyer
The Drew Peterson media circus prevented Vaughn from getting a fair trial, his lawyer said, and the wife-killer's attorneys didn't help things either.
First, he killed one wife, then he was named a suspect in the disappearance of another, and now Drew Peterson's very existence has mucked up Christopher Vaughn's murder trial, the Oswego man's lawyer said Monday. Vaughn's lawyer, George Lenard, said the specter of Drew Peterson hanging over the Vaughn case is just one of the reasons his convicted quadruple-killer client needs a new trial. Besides the problem with Peterson, whose own murder trial was taking place in the courtroom next-door to Vaughn's in August and September, Lenard claimed Vaughn's case was corrupted when prosecutors succeeded in "indoctrinating" one of the jurors. Lenard also said a prosecutor insulted him during the closing arguments and he accused the jury of "improper …
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mike
1:17 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
This is horrible to our family the way people can treat us it seems nothing matters both more it's a bout the money well our family's mean lots to us even our belongings we protect were we live bad the things we love but cleaning up trees and using some dirt fir the floods come on will county deal with the criminals not the ridicules cleaning up its time to stand up and tell how we feel our we … more ›