
Drew Peterson's defense lawyers called an ethics teacher and even trial spectator to the stand during an offbeat hearing Tuesday as they sought to persuade a judge to grant the former suburban Chicago police officer a new murder trial.

Drew Peterson, who was investigated in the disappearance of his fourth wife then charged with killing his third, threatened his ex-wife's life just weeks before she died, a prosecutor told jurors as the former police officer's murder trial began Tuesday.

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