ONE VOTE saves Blago

[bajamary]

Source: CBS News Chicago, Chicago Sun Times

After more than six weeks of testimony and almost three weeks of deliberations, a federal jury announced Tuesday that it was deadlocked on most of the corruption counts against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. One juror said the panel was deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction on the alleged scheme to sell the U.S. Senate seat

While on some counts jurors were split 6-6 or 9-3 or 7-5, the most explosive of the charges — that Blagojevich tried to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat — came down to a single hold-out vote, Sarnello said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/2609372,blago-juror-holdout-081710.article

Read more: http://cbs2chicago.com/

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It was just ONE VOTE on the jury that sparred the impeached former governor from being convicted of trying to sell the Senate seat.

Thank God we will have another trial.

My neighbor, Rod Blagojevich, is just a small time crook in a big sea of corruption that pales when compared with the corporate powers controls of so called democracy.

We just celebrated the 75th anniversary of one of the greatest examples of the best of American democracy: Social Security.

On Aug 26th we'll be celebrating the passage of the 19th Admendment which was the colmuniation of a 70 year political battle for equal right for women.

We were such a good country that was sold to the highest bidders.

My tragic country.

[McCamy Taylor]

1. Innocent is innocent and he still has not been found guilty.

No matter how much the MSM tries to insist that he is 10/11's guilty which has to be rounded up to 1.

How do you know that the rest of the jurors were not relying on one brave soul to buck the federal prosecutors and so they cast the "easy" vote, the one that would keep the feds and the MSM from hounding them?

[bajamary]

2. He was convicted

Actually, he was convicted of one count that has a fine of $200,000 and a maximum of 5 years in Federal prison.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. He was convicted of lying to the FBI. I did not like it when they got Martha Stewart on that one

and I do not like it when they get Blago on that one. You are supposed to tell the truth under oath before the judge and jury. Since when did the FBI become God in the confessional? This kind of "crime" means that if a suspect did not kill his wife but he lied to the police about where he was that night (say he was shooting pool when he was supposed to be working) he can be sent to fucking jail.

[napi21]

10. Yep! It doesn't pay to lie to the FBI or the police. If you're so

stupid to do so, then you take the it.

[Nexus7]

3. Why do you lie?

It was the charge of selling Obama's Senate seat that the jury deadlocked 11-1 on. On the others it was 6-6, 9-3, etc.

See, for example, http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/2609372,blago-juror-holdout-081710.article

[bajamary]

4. thanks

Thanks for making this correction.

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Good question.

[bajamary]

6. made correction

please reread my post as I made the correction

thanks again to the poster who pointed this out to me

[napi21]

9. Great link. Easy to understand. nt

[DollyM]

8. A criminal attorney once told me . . .

that you never put a person on the stand that you think may be guilty. Did you notice that Rod's attorney did not put him on the stand?

[napi21]

11. That's true, but there was a split between his own attorneys.

The old man (msm's words) and his son. The Older atty said stay quet & the son wanted him to testify. Who ows what that means. Rod won today, and althoughhe may be very glib with his words, he just may have hung himself with them. Looks lie the old man was right.