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Posted: Friday, 17 July 2009 5:53AM
State's attorney: Cops did not hit on Peterson's fiancee
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CHICAGO (STNG) -- The Los Angeles attorney representing Drew Peterson's young love shot down a claim from the accused wife killer's lawyer that a state cop hit on her client.
"Chrissie has not had dinner with or gone to the movies with any police officer other than Drew Peterson and she has no interest in doing so," the attorney, Gloria Allred, said in a written statement. "She does not feel that she was 'hit on' by any police officer. We do not think there is a basis for filing a complaint against any police officer and we have no plans to file such a complaint."
Following a Tuesday court hearing, one of Peterson's attorneys, Joel Brodsky, announced that a state police detective asked Peterson's 24-year-old girlfriend, Christina Raines, to go out with him on a date.
According to Brodsky, the state police detective proposed that Raines accompany him to dinner and a movie.
The unidentified detective supposedly asked Raines out while investigating the murder of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, and disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. Peterson faces first-degree murder charges in connection with Savio's death.
Brodsky said he planned to file a motion regarding the state police detective's supposed romantic overture.
Charles B. Pelkie, the spokesman for the state's attorney's office, refuted Brodsky's accusation, calling it "preposterous and disingenuous."
Pelkie also said two detectives always interacted with Raines at the same time and never left one or the other alone with her.
Brodsky's claim infuriated Raines' father, Ernie Raines, who called Brodsky a "scumbag." Ernie Raines also called Peterson a "scumbag" and threatened to "kick the [expletive] out of" and "take apart" Brodsky if he happened to run into him.
Brodsky failed to return calls for comment on Allred's statement or to say how frightened he was of Ernie Raines.
Allred's involvement in the Peterson case is not the first time she has stepped into a high-profile murder prosecution.
She represented Amber Frey, the girlfriend of convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson, and was also the attorney for the family of O.J. Simpson's slain wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
Allred is the mother of television personality Lisa Bloom.
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