Posted on 08/17/2010 2:45:08 PM PDT by STARWISE
Former governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on only one of 24 counts against him. The jury appears hung on the others.
The guilty verdict was on Count 24: providing false statements to officers. After the reading, the jury was thanked and asked to return to the jury room.
*snip*
Before the verdict was read, Judge Zagel said that there may not be verdicts in all 24 counts with which Blagojevich is charged -- and that any counts dealing with forfeiture will be dealt with on Wednesday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
FITZ on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Totally AWESOME !! ROFL !!
Fitzie up NOW .. oughta be priceless!!!!!!!
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/livenow?id=7096071
OH boy ... FRink !!
Fitz: how important jury service is
have to make a unanimous verdict.
What’s important is to have respect and gratitude for their service.
Need to step back and realize how much we owe him.
About to get ready for retrial .. no further comments.
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Stung, aren’t ya, Fitzie?? Hurts ..
That was PRICELESS !!!!
And my eternal question.
WHERE’S TONY REZKO ?????????
Nobody could be stupid enough to think that Blago would testify (no matter what the defense lawyers say), so they could tear him apart on the stand and get another chance at him on perjury and allow them to introduce the evidence against him that he would have to answer directly, without blowing backpipe smoke on the "persons of power" that prosecution was not interesting in doing.
Limiting the case, away from powers that be, was the real reason they didn't introduce the evince. This - "we were told Blago would take the stand" - is just an excuse, Better to admit their incompetence ("Blago lawyers outmaneuvered us") than political complicity.
Also, aren't they [implicitly or explicitly] admitting that the government effectively concealed evidence during the trial? That can't look good, and may be yet another reason for appeal.
Blago is shutting is trap..and counting his lucky stars, and $$$$$. Period.
It's the Chicago way...
This - “we were told Blago would take the stand” - is just an excuse, Better to admit their incompetence (”Blago lawyers outmaneuvered us”) than political complicity.
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EXACTLY !!!!
Fitzie maneuvered and blinked just a little
too transparently for his own good. Hoisted
by his own petard ... LOSER!
$25 to $30 MILLION MORE WILL BE SPENT ON RETRIAL!!!
Crazy ..
Cannot wait ... bring on JJJ!!!
(I smell another 0 vacay to Chicago this fall.)
Bad news for Democrat party...Blago’s messy re-trial will be going on during the coming election campaign.
So sad...
“you have to wonder if someone “got” to a jury member or two.”
A dirty jury pool in a high-profile case involving a slimeball facing jailtime who’s got to have something on every big-time Illinois politician? Defies credibility!
Next somebody will be claiming that during the elections the ballot boxes are stuffed in the Chicago precincts!
BIG time Fitzie fail .. overplayed his hand totally.
Fitzie is so full of BS hot air that he exploded.
I’m no fan of Blago, nor Dems in general, but this “lying to federal agents” crap has got to stop, because it puts us ALL in danger of the out-of-control, flushed with taxpeasant cash moronic government machinery that is the Federal government.
This former judge is AWESOME!
Telling it like it is .. woohoo!
Gotta get his name when they come
back to him after this.
Saying the govt HAS TO PROVE THEIR
case WITHOUT calling witness .. have
to have the goods, in other words.
Says Sam Adam Sr. was telling it straight.
He’s a straight talker .. VERY excellent.
Coverage still on.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/livenow?id=7096071
OF COURSE the corrupt federal persecutors concealed evidence during the trial. They did the same thing to Ted Stevens.
The federal persecutor thugs should be arrested for RICO violations - an ongoing criminal conspiracy involving theft of taxpayer dollars.
Jury comprised of ONE Chicagoan,
and rest from the suburbs.
Very interesting .. in composition
and outcome.
OH BOY!
Jessie Jr’s statement .. whining how
how bad it is this didn’t get finished
now ..
FOR THE STATE .. LOL ...
You think they’re not SICK .. DREADING this
FRANTIC and GNASHING their teeth over this
for the midterms ?
ROFL !!
Thank you, Lord. Bless us, protect us, save us.
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LIVE CHICAGO NEWS COVERAGE
http://player.radio.com/player/RadioPlayer.php?version=1.1.9205&station=93
Cool LoL... Popcorn time!
Blago knows where all the bodies are buried. He will not do any time.
“Turner pointed to the U.S. attorney’s statement from the day Blagojevich was arrested, when he said prosecutors had stopped a “political corruption crime spree.”
“This is clear defeat for prosecutors,” Turner said. “The jurors’ message to Fitzgerald is — this was exaggeration and overstatement.”
Turner said Fitzgerald’s mistake was shutting down the covert investigation in 2008 and arresting Blagojevich — before whatever alleged schemes played out.
“Had they let things proceed, this could have been an open and shut case,” he said.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129260000
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Fitzie’s incompetence confirmed .... AGAIN.
Hey .. he’d fit right in the the WH crew.
Agreed, there is no definitive way in which you can say someone was lying. The reason for this fact is Lying is simply an act of speech in which the speaker in his/her own mind knows and thinks what they are saying is untrue.
There is no technology on earth that would enable anyone to definitively establish that fact except by admission of the one who had lied.
But even if there were such a technology to enforce such a law honestly, no such law could be made by congress as the 1st amendment clearly prohibits any law abridging the right of free speech.
Like it or not saying something whether you know and believe it to be true or not is speech either way.
Perjury is one thing that must be mostly enforced by our creator if it is to be enforce fairly and honestly at all.
Perjury also requires the willful participation of the one taking the oath to tell the truth, as well as the oath itself.
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