Oral Arguments are scheduled for October 2, 2009 in the Drew Peterson case regarding the Defendant's motion that the hearsay law past in November of 2008 and applied to a death from 2004 violates that ex post facto provision of the United States Constitution. In addition, the Motion also asserts that because the statute admits hearsay, that the statute violates Defendants right to confront witnesses under the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution.
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