When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was last mentioned by Main Justice, the defense had rested and it seemed safe to say that his retrial on corruption charges was almost over. That was two weeks ago.
On Wednesday, the jurors were in their eighth day of deliberations in Chicago, the Associated Press reported, with no indication how close they are to reaching a verdict, or whether they’re struggling with indecision, as the first jury did.
The first jury deliberated 14 days and could agree on only one of two dozen counts, returning a guilty verdict last August on a relatively minor charge, a result that spurred federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Illinois to pare down their case and cut their witness list for Round Two. The most sensational of the charges is that Blagojevich tried to auction off the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency.
But the biggest difference in the two trials was Blagojevich’s opting to testify on his own behalf. He told of his humble background and sometimes wandered off track, before being reeled in by Judge James Zagel. Blagojevich insisted he wasn’t doing anything corrupt by engaging in deal-making.
Blagojevich is a victim of prosecutorial tyranny. When someone who has power decides they want to screw you in politics, they use the prosecutor’s office.
If the people who hold office and control corporations were prosecuted for what Blago did, they would all be in jail.
Blago was hoping he would get a job out of giving Obama who he wanted as his replacement. Happens all the time, but usually it is unspoken. The bottom line is a deal was never made and thought crimes and hoping for a job are not illegal.
The government trial system is out of control and people need to become more familiar with Lysander Spooner’s “Trial By Jury”
http://www.barefootsworld.net/trial01.html
The prosecutor is a tyrant who ought to be tried for treason to the constitution.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/trial01.html
BTW, is what Blago did any more wrong than the prosecution convicting people on different cases, charges and situations that had nothing to do with Blago and then withholding sentencing as coersion to testify against Blago?
That crime is tyrannical,criminal and unjust, but it is the way prosecutors and judges do business everyday.
Now the government is angry because people were able to see what a screwjob this was.
Great going Blago!
If this is all the corruption the Feds could find in Chicago, then screw them. This case was never about justice, it was about screwing political enemies by controlling the prosecutors office.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/trial01.html