Tag: Robert Blagojevich
Posted on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 02:32:59 PM EST
Tags: Robert Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich (all tags)
Robert Blagojevich gets some welcome news: The Government is dropping its case against him and won't be refiling charges.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Reid Schar said the government was dropping two counts of extortion conspiracy and one count each of wire fraud and extortion because of "the disparity in the roles" of the two brothers and "in the interests of justice."
I'm glad the Government made the right call, see my post, Enough about Rod, Lets Talk About Robert.
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Posted on Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 04:04:59 PM EST
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Robert Blagojevich (all tags)
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has embarked on a new round of media interviews. He's everywhere from the morning news shows and radio to Fox News Sunday (tomorrow morning) proclaiming his innocence and protesting his persecution at the hands of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Here's the transcript of yesterday's Today Show appearance.
John Dean has a trial post-mortem at Findlaw. He makes the same points I did during the trial and jury deliberations, but much more succinctly and in one place. It's a good read. Shorter version: The Government overcharged Blago, presented a needlessly complex case and hopelessly confused the jurors.
But enough about Rod, let's talk about Robert Blagojevich. as I wrote a few days ago in Blagojevich: The Retrial and More From the Jurors, the jurors reportedly voted 9 to 3 to acquit Robert. [More...]
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Posted on Sat Aug 14, 2010 at 08:39:00 AM EST
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Robert Blagojevich (all tags)
No one knows what the jury is thinking, but in the court of public opinion, according to The New York Times, the tide is turning in favor of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
It's easy to dismiss the Times' analysis since it is based on an unscientific sampling of random persons who didn't hear the evidence. Less easy to dismiss: John Bohrer, a reporter for Esquire who did attend the trial, and who was asked by the magazine at the end of the trial to write an article with his impressions as if he had been one of the jurors, wrote that as a juror, he would have acquitted both defendants. His reasoning is much the same as those interviewed in the Times article. [More...]
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