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What the Peterson jury doesn't know

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    Judge Jeanine weighs in on trial

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Some call it divine intervention.

The State's attorney calls it a gift -- god stunning testimony in the Drew Peterson murder trial.

We and we alone have the witness who provided the most powerful evidence in the trial.

That Drew Peterson said.

He kill -- third wife Kathleen savvy -- Welcome to justice on judge -- mean bureau.

Tonight a justice exclusive.

Harry Smith.

Kathleen savvy -- the -- -- divorce attorney joins us to say exactly what Peterson's fourth wife Stacy.

Told him about the murder of Kathleen -- -- Their conversation.

Just days before Stacy vanished never to be seen again.

And even more shocking.

Harry Smith was -- defense witness.

So why -- earth -- -- defense.

Who doesn't have to say a word.

-- witness whose testimony would not only incriminate their client.

But whose testimony is downright.

Damning.

But let's back up weeks five and the Drew Peterson murder trial the evidence is then the -- This is -- testified the experts have battled.

The truth seeking process.

Fully engaged.

And the jurors.

About to make one of the most important decisions of their lives.

I've told you before that a trial is not a search for the truth.

Juries are treated cheated every day from hearing the truth by the very witnesses who swear on a Bible to tell the truth.

The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Judges spend their day protecting criminals suppressing evidence minimizing.

And -- down testimony.

And judge Edward Carmela has not disappointed in that regard.

So what does the jury not know.

-- jury does not know of the financial motive that Drew Peterson had to kill -- Did jury does not know all of the evidence of the hole in -- sheet rock.

Big enough for someone to climbed through to get -- to her house from the garage.

Now remember drew wasn't undercover narcotics cop that's what they do.

I know I ran and -- -- task force out of my office.

The jury will not know what the former friends of courses that showed -- knowledge and ability to stage a crime scene.

They do not have a complete picture of statements made by Kathleen before she died.

They hearsay that was allowed was fragmented fractured and limited.

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