JOLIET, Ill. – There's another new judge in former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson's murder case.
Chief Judge Gerald Kinney granted a defense request Monday to replace Judge Carla Alessio-Policandriotes (pahl-ee-KAN'-dree-oh-tihs). The case will now be handled by Judge Stephen White.
It was only last month that Alessio-Policandriotes was named to replace another judge, that time at the prosecutor's request. Shortly afterward, she refused to reduce the defendant's $20 million bail.
Peterson is charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
The former officer in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook pleaded not guilty. He has been named a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, missing since 2007.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090601/.../drew_peterson
Too bad His Honor's name isn't preceded by the phrase "Hanging Judge..."
Another new judge in ex-officer Drew Peterson case
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