Isn't this Blagojevich the same crook that the Pretender in Chief claims not to know?
Going to get interesting!
Welcome to Chicago politics.
Posted on 04/21/2010 8:36:47 AM PDT by opentalk
A little more than six weeks before former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is to stand trial on corruption charges in federal court, prosecutors on Monday sought to put limits on the kinds of arguments his defense team can make once the proceedings get under way.
The government asked U.S. District Judge James Zagel to keep Blagojevich's lawyers from mentioning the suicide of one-time Blagojevich adviser Christopher Kelly or their desire to play at the trial all of the tapes that were secretly made of the former governor's conversations in fall 2008.
But one of Blagojevich's lawyers, Sam Adam Jr., said the defense contends that Kelly took his own life while he was being pressured by authorities to falsely plead guilty in the case and now the government wants to suppress any mention of his death.
"If I'm wrong, how come the government doesn't want the jury to know it?" Adam said.
But the government maintains it is simply trying to keep issues irrelevant to the criminal charges from jurors.
On that same note, prosecutors said the defense shouldn't be allowed to raise Blagojevich's impeachment or any positive actions he took as governor.
Blagojevich has long called for all the undercover tapes to be played, not just the ones preferred by prosecutors, saying he is confident he would be vindicated if the entire record was heard.
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And so it begins
--The south suburban contractor headed Blagojevich’s campaign committee and was found dead of an apparent overdose last September. He had been a defendant in three different corruption cases and was set to enter prison within days.”
I think our judicial system has truly lost it’s way. Why shouldn’t a defendent be able to say anything he wants in his defense. If it’s comes across as stupid, so be it.
Isn't this Blagojevich the same crook that the Pretender in Chief claims not to know?
Going to get interesting!
Welcome to Chicago politics.
Fitz-0 is a bigger crook than Blago ever thought about being.
Corrupt Government Rule #1: Dead men don’t talk.
And who is LEADING the judicial system?
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