Trial Still Ongoing
Is this jury sequestered? Are they in a five-star hotel or something?
The jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial went home without a verdict for the seventh day Thursday.
There was again radio silence, with no notes at all coming from jurors, whose last communication to the court was on Tuesday. Even that was only regarding scheduling.
If not for an unrelated sentencing hearing, courtroom 1203 remained mostly empty Thursday, as a jury of eight women and four men have now spent around 43 hours over seven days deliberating Madigan's fate.
There was a rumor somewhere that a jury member had some third or fourth hand connection to a Madigan associate a couple weeks back. Nothing came of it and the jury instructions were issued, so jeopardy has fully attached at this point.
Either the jury is being really really thorough (but as the article says, "no notes" coming from the jury room) or there's a holdout or two, one way or the other.
Labels: corruption, state politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
26 Comments:
Good. Hopefully it’s hung. They won’t retry him.
I'll take the steak and lobster for dinner again please!
Also, please send your best whore to my room at 8:30pm with a bottle of 'Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne Yellow Label'.
Thank you!
Hung jury.
Little Lisa digging those boogers as Daddy sweats that the envelope arrived on time, not short....
He'll walk...more money had to be added...
Mike Madigan says...
WELL, voters,...What DO YOU SAY TO THAT?
Sheriff Andy Taylor says...
Well, I'll say I hope that juror enjoys his new truck,
'Cause I got a feelin'...He's gonna be A-drivin' one
Probation coming!
Snot eater Lisa will hand the appeal...just give her half now, your family.
Napoleon needs to go off and join fast Eddie Burke at club fed
This guy, along with his daughter are both dirty illinois scumbag politicians that need to rot in a prison cell.
It's a holdout. HUng jury, he walks and dies a couple years later waiting on his retrial
The Keesing Bandit’s favorite type of jury.
Cash is king. Hung jury and large sum funnled to a jury member. Hung jury. The Chicago Way.
Good? This MFer needs to rot in prison. What is wrong with you?
Hung Jury, wasn't that a Johnny Homes movie?
This does not sound good for the prosecution.
Madigan will walk, wait and see. It only takes one holdout.
Maybe a few guilty charges and a few not guilty? You would think by this amount of time if it was a hung jury the judge would have been notified
Hung Jory Not guilty! Now to get President Trump to pardon Eddie Burke and let him and Madigan expose secrets the jpy in watching the rest be arrested and put into prison!
A full week and no verdict yet...
Mikey is guilty as sin, but he will walk. But there is still someone even worse still running around. Ever wonder how much Dickie Durban is taking in across the country. He got a taste and now he is a big boy. Maybe his taste was bigger than Madigan's, he just doesn't have to hide as much.
Well you know someone or several are not going to convict him. He never looked worried did he.
Even IF he is convicted on some charges, he will get the lightest of sentences in a country club prison. George Ryan, Rod Blagojevich, Ed Burke and now Mike Madigan...and the voters of Illinois will piss and moan and eventually accept this. It is their way...
Yeah, good. Fuck the gee. No good, rotten cocksuckers all of them.
Maybe that Madigan leprechaun is working his lucky charms on the jury!
If he is convicted he will appeal. With the time the trial took and the number of exhibits it will take the appellate court years to render a decision, then to the Supreme Court of Illinois. No way he will spend a day I. jail
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