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Associated Press - September 11, 2009 10:44 PM ET
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Attorneys for former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson say they have filed final papers and briefs in their motion to have the new Illinois hearsay law declared unconstitutional.
The law was expected to play a role in Peterson's upcoming trial for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Defense attorneys Joel Brodsky and Andrew Aboodand Reem Odeh submitted the briefs Friday.
Peterson has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in the 2004 death of Savio, whose body was found in a dry bathtub.
Savio's death was originally ruled an accident. But after Peterson was named a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, in October 2007, Savio's body was exhumed. Her death was ruled a homicide after a new autopsy.
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