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Drew Peterson defense team continues infighting - chicagotribune.com

Already divided, the Drew Peterson defense team has become even more fractured, as one attorney has quit the case and another has accused leader Joel Brodsky of sending wildly inappropriate emails, including one that suggested the lawyer should shoot himself.

The infighting has spun so far out of control since the retired Bolingbrook police sergeant's conviction this month that even defense team member Joseph Lopez — who is known for wearing hot pink socks to court and famously proclaiming that the framers of the U.S. Constitution "would barf" on the evidence against Peterson — called the situation over-the-top.

"I've never seen anything like it," Lopez said. "Obviously there's a lovers' quarrel going on. I don't want any part of it."

Lopez and attorney Ralph Meczyk confirmed Monday that Darryl Goldberg, who handled much of the scientific and medical-related testimony, quit the case. Goldberg rarely participated in the Peterson team's twice-daily trial media conferences and often seemed unamused by his co-counsels' behavior outside the courtroom.

Goldberg could not be reached for comment. He will be the fifth attorney to leave the defense team since Peterson's 2009 arrest.

 

[the next guy]

Nice pictures
Chicago: It Comes As It Goes - SkyscraperPage Forum

 

[the next guy]

Early parole denied for killer of Chicago couple - chicagotribune.com

A man convicted of killing a Chicago couple in 1991 in a resort town in Oregon has been denied parole.

The Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision ruled Tuesday that Andrew Metz is not likely to be rehabilitated and should not be released early from his 60-year sentence for the murders of Duncan and Ellen McKinnon.

The McKinnons had been visiting their daughter, Thomasina McKinnon, 27, in Gresham, a suburb of Portland, when they decided to visit the Oregon coast. After visiting Astoria, they headed down the coast, stopping for the night in Seaside, a coastal tourist town.

Late on the night of Sept. 8, Metz climbed from a walkway through an open window, possibly to burglarize the room, and stabbed the McKinnons to death, prosecutors said.

Metz was linked to the murders by a bloody fingerprint found in the McKinnons` motel room, by tests that showed the blood on his clothing matched that of the McKinnons, by jewelry taken from the victims that was found in his pockets and by numerous witnesses at the scene.

 

[the next guy]

Man gets 85 years for killing boy playing video games in Lockport home - Chicago Sun-Times

A Lockport man was sentenced Wednesday to 85 years in prison for killing a 14-year-old boy playing video games in a home in Lockport.

A Will County jury found Vernon McCormick guilty in July of the Jan. 3, 2011, murder of Deonte Lesley. Prosecutors said McCormick, 24, sprayed bullets into the home in the 400 block of Fairmont Avenue, hitting Lesley, 16-year-old Jordan Edwards and 17-year-old Shadon McDonald.

Lesley was shot in his head and died at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet. The other two teens were wounded.

It took McCormick’s jury about four hours to convict him on three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery and one count of aggravated discharge of a weapon.

Moments after McCormick’s conviction in July, Lesley’s mother said her son lives on even in death because she agreed to donate her son’s eyes, skin, tissue and bones.

 

[PasteGod]

Who gives a F33ck what these heathens do. I was in Chicago stayed in a plush ass suite partied popped bottles banged heauxs and stayed down town. Don't wallow in this BS bruhs. These problems are generational meaning a thread on the-coli aint gonna reverse the years of Fackery thats been foisted upon our brothers in the Chi

 

[the next guy]

Parish supporters rally around crusty old

He’s a gritty old white Catholic priest who cusses like a sailor, marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King and is hailed as a “living saint” by many in his majority black Southwest Side parish.

But nine months after he was brutally beaten to within an inch of death by burglars, Father Dan Mallette and his supporters say he’s being disrespectfully nudged towards a retirement home — and out of the St. Margaret of Scotland parish where he’s fought violence and poverty for 35 years.

It’s an emotional battle that has the proud but physically frail 80-year-old priest — and supporters including Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart — squaring off against the Archdiocese and the man Cardinal Francis George last month appointed to take over at St. Margaret’s.

Mallette dismisses his successor, Father Bill O’Donnell, as “a genius at being a pain in the ass.”

 

[The God Poster]

brehs I need a new barbershop. Whats yall spot. anywhere from 63rd to 87th southside is closet to me

 

[Ooh Marty]

does anyone know the renting rate of those scooters around the fountain downtown?

 

[beenz]

Is everyone on here posting from the south side, west side, north side, or suburbs? I'm in the south side.

 

[Ooh Marty]

Is everyone on here posting from the south side, west side, north side, or suburbs? I'm in the south side.

currently posting from oak park.

 

[god shamgod]

I use to live on springfield and fillmore.I moved to maywood

Now I'm in Forest Park.

 

[ajkamkel]

does anyone know the renting rate of those scooters around the fountain downtown?

bikes $10
scooters $50
segways $80

but you can talk them down depending on how busy they are

 

[ajkamkel]

Is everyone on here posting from the south side, west side, north side, or suburbs? I'm in the south side.

south burbs with no guns laws like the city

 

[The Nigerian]

Anyone know where I can go to get a solid Juice fade?

 

[jilla82]

Wicker Park area