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http://m.yahoo.com/news?_ybx=hero&ref_w=frontdoors#/stories/article?id=ap/us_blagojevich_sentencing&cat=top-stories AP – 12/8/2011 – Rod Blagojevich starts his Thursday facing a bleak countdown — 71 days before the twice-elected Illinois governor must say goodbye to his family and begin serving a 14-year sentence for corruption. During those days, he will scramble to get his financial affairs in order and spend a final birthday and Christmas at home with his…

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…

They Keep Putting Off the Judge from Pissetzky

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…

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…