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Coincidence? Two Suspects Kill Themselves In Same Chicago Lockup, Same Week

Posted 12.29.2011

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On November 17, Develt Bradford, who was being held at Chicago's Area Two police station in connection with a shooting, allegedly hung himself with hi...

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Blagojevich Defense Lawyers To Leave Case: Judge Decides Today

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A defense team of more than a dozen attorneys and legal aides, who huddled around former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talking strateg...

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Blagojevich's Fiery, Father-Son Lawyer Team Leave Case

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lead attorney is asking a judge to release him from the defense team ahead of Blagojevich's ret...

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Blagojevich's Defense Attorney Clashes With Judge, Could Be Held In Contempt

AP | DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Two portraits of Illinois' disgraced former governor emerged Tuesday from his corruption trial: An insecure bumbler who talked too muc...

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Defense Rests In Blagojevich Trial: Rod Blagojevich Will NOT Testify

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich's surprise decision not to testify after all at his corruption trial is a high-risk gamble that spared the ousted Illi...

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Blagojevich Trial: Prosecution Winding Down, Trial Could Be Delayed For One Week

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday in the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich, after presenting more than five weeks of testimony f...

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Gerald Krozel, Leader In Illinois Road-Building, Clashes With Blagojevich Defense Attorneys

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Prosecutors said Wednesday that a former state official has told them he was on hand for a meeting at which a businessman told Rep. Je...

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Blagojevich Defense Paints Ex-Gov As Clueless Victim

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Was Rod Blagojevich a crook? Or was he merely a bumbler, a goof – naive, trusting and played for a fool by cynical campaign fund...

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The Waiting Game: With No Word From Blagojevich Jury, Judge Tells Media 'We Are All In The Same Position'

Posted 05.25.2011

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The jury in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial ended its tenth day of deliberations Tuesday--and don't appear to be any closer to a verdict. As repo...

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Judge To Blago: Sit Still And Stop Gesturing During Trial

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A federal judge is warning former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to sit still and control his emotions during his corruption trial. Pr...

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Blagojevich Trial: Sam Adam Jr., Defense Attorney, Sweats The Verdict

Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that closing arguments have wrapped up in the corruption trial of ex-governor Rod Blagojevich, observers across the country can only wait anxiousl...

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Blagojevich's Defense Attorney Clashes With Judge, Could Be Held In Contempt

Huffington Post | Janan Hanna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Much like a house of worship, a federal courtroom is steeped in traditional rules of decorum; chief among them an unremitting deference to the judge. ...

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Closing Arguments Heard In Blagojevich Trial, Will Continue Into Tuesday

AP | DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich's defense attorney clashed with the judge Monday over his planned closing arguments, pledging to go to jail if he is p...

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WATCH: Blagojevich Talks After Defense Rests, Says He Never Took 'A Corrupt Penny'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Rod Blagojevich has been declaring his innocence since his arrest, and vowed that he would have a day in court to share his side of the story. But Wed...

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WATCH: Blagojevich Lawyers Want Trial Delayed, Say Case Has Been Practically 'Destroyed'

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO -- The pace of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial has taken a lot of people by surprise - including, apparently, his own ...

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Witnesses: Campaign Cash And State Projects Were Linked Under Blagojevich

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A politically connected roadbuilding executive said Tuesday that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich dangled the possibility that he ...

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Blagojevich Trial: Mistrial Denied

WBEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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The federal judge presiding over the trial of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has quickly dismissed a defense motion for a mistrial. ...

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Witness: Blagojevich Tried To Shakedown Rahm Emanuel, Ari Emanuel

AP | MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A former top aide to Rod Blagojevich testified Monday that the former governor planned to hold up a $2 million grant to a school in th...

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Monk Testimony Paints Blagojevich As Stressed, Desperate For Cash

Huffington Post | Janan Hanna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Juggling the interests of the owner of two horse racing tracks and his former boss, then Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Alonzo "Lon" Monk was feeling the press...

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Rod Blagojevich Trial: Opening Statements Paint Very Different Pictures

Huffington Post | Janan Hanna | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a ruse; a savvy strategic political ploy engineered by a man whose own defense attorney insists has "horrible" judgment. That's how Rod Blagoj...

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Sam Adam Jr, Blagojevich's Star Attorney, To Take Center Stage Today At Trial

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — An attorney for Rod Blagojevich declared Tuesday that the former Illinois governor is an honest man who "didn't take a dime" of illega...

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Blagojevich's Defense Attorney Plans To Let Him 'Blather' In His Own Defense

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been a while since we checked in on former Illinois Governor/Walking Hair Farm Milorad "Rod" Blagojevich, but he's due to stand trial for all sor...

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Blagojevich's Lawyer: 'He's A Celebrity Idiot'

Chicago Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Adam Jr., one of the lawyers defending Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges, has a plan for helping his client beat the rap: Let him blather. "H...

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"Gay Panic Defense" Used To Acquit Illinois Man Who Stabbed Neighbor 61 Times

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Only two people know what really happened in that apartment on Hassell Road in Hoffman Estates in the early hours of March 5th 2008. One of the men is dead.

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Giel Stein, Former George Ryan Lawyer, Joins Blagojevich Defense

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Another lawyer is joining the defense team for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich. U.S. District Judge James Zagel on Friday allowed a fourt...

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