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- About
What Blago-report.com is about, and where it comes from:
It has been nearly five years since I crashed a trial in Birmingham, Alabama.
I spent over six… - Features
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- Blagojevich strategy notes
Can Blagojevich win?
I have sat in a courtroom as a trial convened where the public and press was convinced that it was an open-and-shut slam dunk of a… - Pre-trial motion chart
This chart is two pages. Click the button at the bottom of the chart for the second page of motions…
- Blagojevich strategy notes
Blog Posts
- News (44)
- The do-over
August 19, 2010, 23:15
An observer of the Blagojevich trial wrote the following comment on a forum:
Personally, I wish they could have found a charge that they could make stick that… - What the jury is looking at…
August 16, 2010, 13:50
The jury has asked for and will receive the entire testimony of Bradley Tusk. This testimony pertains to Count 14 and second Racketeering Act of Count 1, the…
- Score: Deadlocked on 11 counts, verdicts on 2 counts and 11 counts undeliberated
August 14, 2010, 01:35
The time has come during the jury vigil when the wait becomes maddening because we know just enough to know we don’t know a thing. The jury vigil is an odd…
- What’s taking so long & the aftermath
August 9, 2010, 01:19
So what happened in Chicago? How’d you spend your summer? What was going on in the courthouse on Dearborn? Have you ever seen or felt or been through something…
- Odds & ends on the eve of Closing Arguments
July 26, 2010, 00:08
People you meet in court: One day while I was sitting in the gallery, watching the trial, I stabbed myself in the eye with my glasses. Yes, I’m clumsy. Small…
- The end + 1: A story
July 22, 2010, 18:48
Sam Adam Sr. stepped to the podium, facing a bank of cameras and a noisy press pit. Today, he is not in his bright, almost sunny, lime-light loving motif, with…
- The end
July 21, 2010, 15:58
It is over.
Rod Blagojevich, stepping to the podium, looking very small, ill suited: “It is my decision, on advice of my attorneys, to not testify in this… - The day the mob showed up (for nothing?)
July 21, 2010, 00:10
Today, in the something-for-everyone trial, there were swirling rumors, a feisty defendant, a weary judge, and a rowdy mob. I’ve said all along that in the…
- The Blagojevich Brothers: Rob vs Rod (Part I)
July 19, 2010, 21:17
The defense did not score a clear knock-out punch today when Rob Blagojevich took the stand. There were times when he sounded pretty good, where his unequivocal…
- The defense’s pie-in-the-sky mistrial motions & the Rule 29 motion
July 17, 2010, 00:08
Rod Blagojevich’s attorneys have now filed six motions for a mistrial, and they have yet to put on their defense. To be fair and accurate, it was never likely…
- The prosecution rests
July 14, 2010, 00:42
The prosecution’s case came to a quick end, from both the long and short term perspectives. The defense has been doling out some drivel to the media and the…
- Attorney Rod Blagojevich
July 12, 2010, 21:10
This afternoon, many of the players in the case received new titles. Chief-of-Staff John Harris became Attorney John Harris, Deputy Governor Greenlee became…
- The many hats of Rod Blagojevich
July 8, 2010, 21:56
Rod Blagojevich bends over the broad white table to confer with one of his lawyers. His face is stern, intense; he speaks rapidly, tersely, and while he is…
- Road building, Patti’s job and Jesse Jackson Jr. too
July 7, 2010, 21:53
Memo to DOJ- re: preparing witnesses who’s story has been memorialized in FBI 302s.
It isn’t quite déjà vu, but I once watched an entire months-long trial… - The Dog Days of Trial (and a real defense heat stroke of a head ache)
July 6, 2010, 21:50
The Dog Days of Trial
It is the 5th week. We started just after the BBQs were brought out and fired up for Memorial Day and now the grills have been well… - Fun with charts & more preview of the defense’s case
July 4, 2010, 17:14
The government has demonstrated some fun things you can do with charts while trying depict how Rod and Patty Blagojevich derived personal benefits from various…
- Prosecution wrap-up and defense preview—part 1
July 3, 2010, 18:43
The government has said they are about ready to wrap up their case, presumably without a court appearance from either Mr. Rezko—who would be a hostile…
- A bunch of expensive ties and the prosecution’s ready to call it a case
July 2, 2010, 12:13
Blagojevich’s lifestyle on trial
I know prosecutors like to do this sort of thing as I’ve seen similar testimony in other trials. They must feel it… - The prism
June 30, 2010, 21:48
After a rather subdued and Patti-less Tuesday, the defense table was particularly boisterous and animated before the day’s session began. Blagojevich had a…
- …And an even better day for the prosecution
June 29, 2010, 21:09
I. A juror’s task: Anatomy of an argument (part 1)
Evaluating the Harris testimony—in total—involves putting on a filter. It is not that hard to see… - The defense has a good day
June 28, 2010, 21:10
At the break, Rod Blagojevich spotted a young woman watching the trial from the gallery. He said, “If I’d have known you then, we would’ve talked about you on…
- The death knell: Marginalization (& honest services too)
June 25, 2010, 13:19
The Supreme Court makes a decision
In the morning, before the session began, the Supreme Court came back with a ruling on honest services fraud statutes.… - The Emperor’s new clothes
June 23, 2010, 23:13
Nixon in the mirror
In a phone call a couple of days after the election of Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich said, “I feel like Nixon after his re-election:… - “I may be crazy but I’m not nuts.” — Rod Blagojevich on federal wire tap
June 22, 2010, 23:09
Blagojevich makes his entrance under the nervous eyes of the US Marshalls who keep him moving toward the courtroom. The lobby breaks into applause and he…
- The same defense with a new ‘do
June 21, 2010, 22:34
It’s another gray day in Chicago as ominous dark clouds hang over the skyline and the edge of a front looms in the distance. Against this backdrop, the third…
- The trial at two weeks
June 19, 2010, 10:15
It’s been seven court-days since testimony began, ten days since the jury was seated. As every one else lives their lives, it’s been two full weeks.
This… - The prosecution finds its footing while the defense totters
June 18, 2010, 01:04
Ratso Rizzo was on the stand today, a hold-over from yesterday afternoon.
Dustin Hoffman the actor, the original Rizzo, has played many roles over his long… - Aramanda and Rezko
June 16, 2010, 22:22
A ritual
Rod Blagojevich is getting emboldened as the trial goes on. He has a new ritual. In the morning, while waiting for court to open, Sam Adam Sr.… - Blagojevich: A day in the life
June 15, 2010, 22:25
The Day Begins
The defense table is jovial, laughing. One of the people in the gallery says something to Adam Jr. and the attorney says with a broad grin,… - Rod Blagojevich 1 - The United States of America 0
June 14, 2010, 23:09
The fog of court
On an overcast day in Chicago, from twenty-five floors up, the nearby buildings are silhouetted against the stark white background and the… - Blagojevich’s chances as the trial gets under way (and site resources)
June 13, 2010, 23:24
Site Resources
I have updated the document that lists the important names associated with the Blagojevich situation, and their roles. If this resource would… - Patti didn’t have to listen to all of Monk’s long day
June 11, 2010, 02:45
Before the day’s session begins, Blagojevich turns to the young childlike reporter-kids in the first row, Esquire and his pal, an extreme version of new-media,…
- Bring it on. And Alonzo Monk.
June 9, 2010, 22:01
The Blagojevich defense team has always been unbowed and rather defiant when it has come to the hours and hours and hours of taped calls and conversations the…
- Opening arguments
June 8, 2010, 22:30
The opening argument of the opening argument post
Memo to Samuel Adam Jr.: One-time Deputy Governor Sheila Nix went to Chicago University Law School (BS at… - The end of jury selection and notes from the courtroom
June 7, 2010, 21:57
A courtroom at rest: Empty Tables
There are five people sitting around the prosecution’s table, and eight people crowded around Rod Blagojevich’s table… - It begins at the end
June 4, 2010, 00:39
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- It all goes to Chicago…
May 28, 2010, 12:57
It all goes to Chicago…
Judge Zagel has denied the jury selection challenge by Blagojevich. Although this challenge appeared to have some merit, the… - Last shot at the continuance & the jury
May 26, 2010, 11:34
A couple of months ago, I wrote about Blagojevich’s possibilities, and what path he might take to overcome the charges arrayed against him, and more recently,…
- Blagojevich To-do list & The pretrial tally
May 21, 2010, 08:52
As the time ticks away and it is less than two weeks to trial, the Blagojevich team appears to be trying to hit a homerun or throw a Hail Mary before… - The battle over time revisited: The “I’m telling” motion
May 13, 2010, 11:03
After this post see the update under updates in the lower right column…
There are a couple of kids on the playground. There’s a dispute. Something about the… - The Battle Over Time
March 20, 2010, 10:02
While Blagojevich makes his first appearance on Celebrity Apprentice, and careens along seemingly oblivious to sound legal advice, the battle outside the…
- Can Rod Blagojevich win?
March 7, 2010, 20:01
I have sat in a courtroom as a trial convened where the public and press was convinced that it was an open-and-shut slam dunk of a case, and that we were…
- The Blagojevich tapes (pre-trial skirmishes, part 1)
February 22, 2010, 17:01
Blagojevich’s legal team has experienced some tough-going in preliminary pre-trial skirmishes. In a situation that already appears to be an uphill battle for…
- The Blagojevich Trial
January 31, 2010, 12:49
Coming to a courtroom near you. Website will be fully functional by late March, 2010.
- The do-over
- Featured articles (1)
- The battle over time revisited: The “I’m telling” motion
May 13, 2010, 11:03
After this post see the update under updates in the lower right column…
There are a couple of kids on the playground. There’s a dispute. Something about the…
- The battle over time revisited: The “I’m telling” motion
- Updates and Bulletins (1)
- The last stand of the battle over time: Dad returns
May 13, 2010, 22:40
The older kid-referee is busy telling the inconsolable kid what he has decided when Dad comes back, looking rather grumpy, put out. He says that using the “I’m…
- The last stand of the battle over time: Dad returns
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