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The mistrial decision comes before prosecutors have even presented the most delicate of the hearsay evidence, including Savio's alleged remarks to others about Peterson threatening to kill her before her body was found in a dry bathtub at her Bolingbrook home. On Thursday, Burmila must decide if he will wipe out Pontarelli's testimony and then let the trial go on
-- something he said he could do as an alternative to canceling the trial. As he left the courthouse Wednesday, Glasgow tried to sound upbeat, saying, "We're confident that the trial will resume tomorrow morning." But whether that's good for what is the highest-profile case of his career
-- maybe in the history of Will County -- remains to be seen. Legal experts say what has unfolded so far has damaged the case. "It's bad news if a judge is chastising prosecutors so much, because it tells the jury,
'I don't trust this prosecutor, I don't approve of this prosecutor,'" said Marcia Clark, Los Angeles' lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. "It's a scary place to be as prosecutor."
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