When your entire defense takes about a day and calls no witnesses on your behalf, you would think the odds are stacked against you. Especially when you consider that you are being prosecuted by the guy who sent the last Illinois governor to prison, who took down the last governor of New York with leaks of a prostitution ring and who also convicted the former Vice President's chief of staff. You pretty much have no chance. Enter Rod Blagojevich.
On the flip side, if you can't convict a guy that presents no defense then you really ought to call it quits. Patrick Fitzgerald, the once untouchable U.S. Attorney, really wasted a lot of time and money on this one.
If there is any silver lining in this whole thing, and I speak as a resident of Illinois, it rid the state of Gov. Blagojevich for good. He'll never again be in charge and nearly all of us are thankful for that. He was unpopular, corrupt and put the state in a terrible mess financially. But with the lone conviction, he'll probably do no prison time and we'll all be forced to see his smiling face on teevee for quite some time.
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