Posted on 05/10/2008 5:24:36 AM PDT by Libloather
Both sides rest at Rezko trial; no defense witnesses called
By MIKE ROBINSON
Associated Press Writer
Posted on Mon, May. 05, 2008
CHICAGO --Less than two hours after prosecutors rested their case Monday in political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's fraud trial, defense attorneys did the same without calling a single witness.
It is not unusual for the defense portion of a major criminal trial to be fairly short, though attorneys often call at least a few witnesses.
"We do not believe the government has met their burden in proving the charges against Mr. Rezko," chief defense counsel Joseph J. Duffy told reporters after federal court jurors were sent home until next week.
Closing arguments are to get under way May 12. Attorneys plan to spend the rest of this week fashioning verdict forms and the instructions that U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve will give to the jury.
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But the Illinois senator was rarely mentioned in testimony and no one has said the evidence suggested even the slightest wrongdoing on Obama's part.
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After resting, defense attorneys asked St. Eve to acquit Rezko of all 24 counts in the indictment without submitting the case to the jury; she did not immediately rule. Such motions are not unusual but not often granted.
Prosecutors say it was Rezko's prolific fundraising for Gov. Rod Blagojevich that gave him sufficient clout to manipulate such decisions on state boards from behind the scenes. Rezko denies he took part in such a scheme.
Blagojevich has not been charged with wrongdoing, but the trial has badly smudged his political image.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.com ...
Translation: "The jury is in the bag. It's Miller time."
Rezko isn’t concerned about doing any jail time. He figures his buddy Obama will issue a pardon before Rezko has a chance to serve even one day. Yet another reason not to vote for the Prince of Change.
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
HATRED OF WHITES:
From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race (WHITE) would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.” Barack Hussein Obama
From Dreams Of My Father: “That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams Of My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!
A WHITE CANDIDATE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED FOR MAKING SUCH STATEMENTS!!!
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http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
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