By MICHAEL TARM (AP) – A defense team of more than a dozen attorneys and legal aides, who huddled around former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talking strategy or even comforting their client during his first corruption trial, won’t be there for his second. The official number of attorneys for the retrial is – two. The fact that a Blagojevich legal…
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Prosecutors seek to drop some Blagojevich counts
By MICHAEL TARM (Associated Press – February 23, 2011) CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors asked a judge for permission Wednesday to dismiss racketeering charges against ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as he heads to a retrial, trying to simplify a case that deadlocked jurors in the first trial complained was too hard to follow. In the waning minutes of a…
El Paso Public Corruption
They Keep Putting Off the Judge from Pissetzky
Gal Pissetzky Defends Client Against Public Corruption Charges.
He’s the Modern Day Perry Mason… By Joe Muench (Excerpt from: They Keep Putting Off the Judge), The El Paso Times – Now P. has taken on noted criminal defense attorney Gal Pissetzky of Chicago. The question around town: How can P., a computer technician formerly with the District Clerk’s Office, then with El Paso Independent School District, afford such…
One suspect denied bond in girl’s killing
By Leah Hope June 28, 2007 (WLS) The two men charged in the shooting death of a 13-year-old Chicago girl appeared in court Thursday afternoon. Tony Serrano and Mwenda Murithi are accused in the murder of Schanna Gayden, who was in a park when she was shot. Police say this was a gang-related shooting. Thursday, family members for one of…
Would you let kids drink in your home?
BY FRANK MAIN AND DAN ROZEK (Staff Reporters – December 31, 2006) When Mark and Denise Richmond moved into their sprawling Deerfield home, the Hutsell family welcomed them with open arms. “My neighbors are very nice and polite and religious people,” Mark Richmond said. Then on Oct. 13, a drunken 18-year-old slammed his car into a tree at the entrance…