Jurors Say No ‘Smoking Gun’ in Blagojevich Trial

Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 18 August 2010 6:21 AM

Rod Blagojevich was convicted yesterday on one of the 24 charges he faced reports the Chicago Tribune. The former governor was found guilty of lying to the FBI. And despite the numerous government wiretaps that caught Blagojevich trading his influence for campaign donations, the jury foreman says the “lack of a smoking gun” is what prevented a unanimous decision.

“You’ve got to be bleepin’ kidding me.” That’s how Tribune columnist John Kass sums up his feelings about the verdict. He writes that “Gov. Dead Meat” obviously “conned at least one member of his federal jury into cutting him a break.” Kass says Blagojevich “immediately started appealing to the next jury pool in the retrial sure to come.”

Maybe Blagojevich got off because we’ve gotten so used to the murky line between money and politics. There’s a good opinion piece in the New York Times exploring that idea.

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