Peterson allows probate case to continue
JOLIET — 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Joel Brodsky sent a fax to the Savio family’s lawyers explaining that he had withdrawn his motion for a stay of the proceedings — meaning his earlier request to bring the reopened probate case to a grinding halt.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.
