Drew Peterson trial updates: 2:55 p.m. Stacy's friend barred from testifyingJudge Edward Burmila barred Scott Rossetto's testimony, saying that the state's error regarding the dates, and the fact that Rossetto testified at the 2010 hearsay hearing that the conversation with Stacy Peterson took place on Oct. 26, 2007 — a day when he was at work and could not have spoken with her —made his testimony unreliable.
"Call your next witness," Burmila said and asked the court bailiff to bring in the jury.
A second later, he told the bailiff to wait, as the defense lodged a motion to bar the next witness, an insurance investigator, from testifying about Kathleen Savio's life insurance policy.
Rosetto testified in 2010 that Stacy Peterson told him that Drew Peterson had coaxed her into providing a false alibi for the weekend of Savio’s death.
At the heart of the defense’s objection was an email prosecutors sent to the defense on Wednesday night that said Rossetto's testimony would be consistent with a police report and that his conversation took place on Oct. 22, 2007.
In prior testimony, Rossetto said it took place on Oct. 25 or 26, 2007.
Glasgow argued that it was nothing more than a transcriber’s error and that his assistant, John Connor, would have caught the mistake if he had not gone home earlier that day with a high fever.
But defense attorney Steve Greenberg countered that the different dates show Rossetto's testimony was unreliable and he should not be allowed to testify any further.
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