Posted on 12/12/2013 11:10:16 PM PST by Olog-hai
Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Friday gets whats likely his last chance to win his freedom as a three-judge federal panel hears oral arguments in his appeal.
A lawyer for the disgraced Illinois Democrat steps before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to ask that it toss Blagojevichs corruption convictions.
Short of that, Blagojevichs defense team hopes the court will at least agree to reduce his 14-year prison termone of the longest sentences ever imposed for political corruption in a state where four of the last seven governors ended up in prison.
FBI agents arrested then-Gov. Blagojevich five years ago this week, on Dec. 9, 2008. A jury convicted him of wide-ranging charges in 2011, including for trying to profit from his power to name someone to President Barack Obamas old U.S. Senate seat.
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I recall paid liar Blago, his spitfire wife, and his Mr. Fix-it brother as a reality show already in search of a sponsor.
He’s already been in jail longer than I thought he would be. Jessie Jagmo Jr. too.
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