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No suprise: Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich won’t ride off into the sunset — or head to prison — quitely.
The Chicago Tribune reported that Blagojevich, who was convicted last month of 17 of 20 public corruption charges in his retrial, filed a motion Monday for a retrial, alleging judicial bias and error that helped the prosecution “strip away the effective aspects of the defense case.”
“Virtually every error in this trial stemmed from the fact that this Court deprived Blagojevich of the presumption of innocence and exhibited bias against the defense,” the motion asserted, according to the Trib. “The Court formed a closed mind to the evidence and made findings of fact.”
The motion said that “the government did not only benefit from the first trial, it used every opportunity to strip away the effective aspects of the defense case. … The Court rubber-stamped the government’s requests.”
