Drew Peterson Attorneys Make Latest Argument For His Pre-Trial Release « CBS Chicago Video Listen Live! Login 12/30/11 3:44 PM Register 43° H: 45° L: 29° Current Forecast » View Traffic Report Home Local News Sports Health Investigative Politics Business Audio Consumer Video Best Of Entertainment Health Traffic National Weather World Directory Deals Holiday Photos NEWS Drew Peterson Attorneys Make Latest Argument For His Pre-Trial Release June 3, 2011 4:02 PM Share this Like 20 0 0 3 6 comments CHICAGO (WBBM) – Attorneys for Drew Peterson are asking that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant be released from jail pending trial for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson has been held in lieu of $20 million bond in the Savio case since May 2009. The day before the trial was to begin, 11 months Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., Friday, May 8, 2009, for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. (M. Spender Green/AP) MORE FROM CBS ago, prosecutors filed an appeal with the 3rd More Than 200 New Laws Set To Take Effect District Appellate Court over the evidence to be Craig Stebic, Husband Of Missing Mom, Sued By Own Attorney allowed at trial. That continues to delay it. Defense attorney Joel Brodsky said he was Investment Advisor Charged With Defrauding Clients… ready for trial last July 8 and remains so, Filed Under Newsradio 780′s Bob Roberts reports. Local, News Related Tags FROM AROUND THE WEB LISTEN: Newsradio 780′s Bob Roberts Reports Police Women of Cincinnatti: Drunk as a Skunk Bob Roberts, Drew Brodsky, Drew Peterson, Kathleen Savio, peterbd, trial (HowStuffWorks Videos) “There’s no danger to anyone if he’s released,” Brodsky said. ”There are other ways to do this, too. He could be put on home Margarita Mojica, Pregnant Woman Crushed To Death… (Huffington Post) China's Lost Girls (SnagFilms) monitoring. They could put him on a curfew. They could put him under house arrest.” The motion notes that while he was still free to travel, but knew he was FEATURED ON CBS CHICAGO under suspicion in the Savio case, he traveled to California, Florida and New York but never attempted to leave the United States and always returned home to Bolingbrook, where he has lived in 1977. Peterson is a lifelong Chicago-area resident, except for his years in the military. 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