Peterson gets 38 years after screaming, 'I did not kill Kathleen'

[Kelvin Mace]

31. The problem is that people testifying, even under oath,

have later been found out to have lied, usually with little consequence. Jail house snitches have the most incentive to lie, as they always have.

For example, in this case, who was the guy who testified about being offered money to kill Savio? What is his background?

While it may seem (and may actually be) a cut and dried issue in this case, it is a very disturbing precedent to have the legislature directly interfere in a criminal investigation and trial by rushing through a law designed specifically to aid the prosecution of one person.

This law stacks the deck yet again against defendants and will be abused to ensure conviction, quite probably of innocent people.

The admissibility of the hearsay testimony hinges on proving a witness was killed to prevent their testimony, but this creates a completely different standard of evidence for that crime, one much lower than the usual requirements (a jury trial, discovery, etc). In this case, if I understand correctly, the court has found that Savio was killed to prevent her testifying, yet her husband has not been charged with the crime, nor has anyone else.