Archive for August, 2010

Lawyers and the press corps are lined up outside Judge Zagel’s 25th floor courtroom. We are all eagerly waiting to learn what the jury might have to say at 2:30. Earlier today, we were notified by email that a “hearing on the Blagojevich matter” would be heard “no earlier” than 2:30. This will be the [...]

“There is actually nothing to report,” Judge Zagel told the assembled lawyers at the daily status report. “The jury has asked for nothing.” The defense attorney’s analysis of the jury’s silence is that there must be disagreements. “I think they’re fighting,” Robert Blagojevich’s attorney Michael Ettinger said. Sam Adam, Sr. told reporters, “Obviously some people [...]

I’ve just discovered why we never see the jurors in the cafeteria.  Lunches are delivered everyday by Via Panera.  I met the harassed delivery person in the elevator, who told me she is searched daily to make sure no notes go in or out.  Far different from the George Ryan jury who lunched in the [...]

The waiting continues at the Federal Building as the jury goes into its seventh day of deliberations.  Rod Blagojevich’s legal team huddles in the cafeteria, minus Sam Adam Sr. and Jr., who prefer to wait it out at their South Side law offices. Rod and Robert Blagojevich are both at their North Side homes with [...]