Search

A
A+
A++

Top News

CBS 2 Most Popular Pages

Celebs Who Lean To The Right More

Digg |

Facebook | E-mail | Print

Jul 17, 2008 2:09 pm US/Central

Peterson Allows Probate Case To Continue

JOLIET, Ill. (Naperville Sun) ― In May, the lawyers representing Drew Peterson and his uncle asked a Will County judge to stop the court proceedings in Kathleen Savio's newly reopened probate case until a later date.

Around 3 p.m. Wednesday, they changed their minds.

Joel Brodsky sent a fax to the Savio family's lawyers explaining that he had withdrawn his motion for a stay of the proceedings — meaning his earlier request to bring the reopened probate case to a grinding halt. The Savio family wanted to activate the probate case so they could investigate the possibility of filing a wrongful death lawsuit in the 2004 death of the 40-year-old Bolingbrook woman. If that happens, it's fine with Brodsky.

"It is more like a gift than a problem," he said Thursday morning.

A wrongful death lawsuit would give him the opportunity to depose — or question — the state police and others to find out what they know.

"It would almost be like a private grand jury," Brodsky said.

(CBS 2, the Naperville Sun and the Aurora Beacon-News are news partners covering stories in the western suburbs. Send story tips to tips@cbs2chicago.com. (© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Get More From cbs2chicago.com

From Our Partners

: Drew Peterson leaves his Bolingbrook home to turn himself in on an unrelated gun charge. Peterson is a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy. (File)
CBS