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Rezko jury watch… Gone for the day
Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 * 1:06 pm - In case you’re wondering…
* 2:24 pm - The Sun-Times has posted the official verdict form, which could be useful when the jury finally finishes. Click here to download. * 3:30 pm - If you’d like to match up the verdict form with an explanation of what each of those counts are about, the Tribune’s Rezko blog laid it out a while back. But, since the Tribsters don’t have direct links to each post, I’ve put them all on a separate page. * 4:19 pm - Parsing…
It’ll happen when it happens. They could stay deadlocked over one count for days. One should never read too much into anything. * 4:37 pm -The jury has left for the day.
- Posted by Rich Miller
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- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:11 pm:
I heard 3 jurors were ordering food “to go” so we can expect a verdict after they finish cleaning up.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:12 pm:
LOL. Let’s not spread rumors like that, please. People are on a hair-trigger right now.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:14 pm:
If they ordered Panda Express does that mean they’re gonna set him free?
“If the moo-shoo fits, they will acquit.”
- Dan S, a voter and Cubs Fan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:16 pm:
I saw “Rezko jury watch… ” and I thought OK, here we go…. and the verdict is??? But no, just a tease.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:17 pm:
We needed a placeholder.
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:19 pm:
It was a jury watch, not a warning. A watch means conditions are favorable for a verdict, while a warning means a verdict has been spotted or is visible on radar.
- He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:20 pm:
Better order the drinks in sippy cups so they don’t spill anything on the forms!!!
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:22 pm:
Dan S-
Jury watch means, “jury watch.” We watch every twitch in the media, hoping to catch the first scoop, and every day is a tease. When there is a verdict, what are the odds that a thread called “Rezko Verdict In” appears here?
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:23 pm:
Sorry for the rumor-mongering….must be residue from my Lee employment.
- A Citizen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:24 pm:
We are not going to see a verdict until after dinner at the Chop House! They’re milking this for all it’s worth. Make mine medium rare, please.
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:25 pm:
A watch is a time peice worn upon the wrist. In this case it may have coffee damage. This is a thread for us to debate how much the jury foremans coffee stained wrist watch will go for on e-bay. The Suntimes is rumoured to have dibs on his ties.
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:25 pm:
Once the verdict is in, can we waive the “no caps” rule for a specified time? I’ve got an itchin’ for a ‘woo hoo’ and it just doesn’t have the same impact.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:27 pm:
Yesterday might have been an indication of strong jury rotation… in which direction (guilty or not guilty), however, remains to be seen.
- A Citizen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:28 pm:
Quimby, Go For It, the worst Rich will do is slap your hand with a ruler like a nun from gradeschool, or delete your comment (does this to me a few times a week).
- Bill - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:29 pm:
A citizen,
Your writing is a lot like VanillaMan’s. Has anyone else noticed that?
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:31 pm:
I think everybody here is VanillaMan.
He’s like Underdog. He’s everywhere!
- A Citizen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:32 pm:
- Bill -
High praise indeed, I thank you!
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:33 pm:
freakin’ sweet, Citizen!
Hypothetically, of course, if there is a guilty verdict what is the immediate spin from the Gov?
*the ‘bad apple’ defense
*Jason Giambi apology for acts unspecified
*say ‘reform & renewal’ was just an empty campaign promise
- Bill - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:34 pm:
lol
- A Citizen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:37 pm:
- Vote Quimby! -
My best guess is “The Nixon Defense” - paraphrased, The people need to know if their leader is a crook . . . Well, I am Not a CROOK!
- Bill - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:42 pm:
The bad apple defense is the best. We’ve all got that one down pat.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:42 pm:
The answer will be: “The governor is unavailable for comment.”
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:48 pm:
Not even a Rebecca-ism ‘that is not how this administration does business’?
- KGB - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:52 pm:
…or “The Governor cannot comment on ongoing investigations, whether recently begun, ended or contemplated.”
…or “Tony Rezko would not have been convicted if Speaker Madigan would have just passed a capital plan.”
- The Doc - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:52 pm:
Does Blagojevich have the authority to “sweeten” the jury verdict, a la “lemons into lemonade”?
- 5+ years of fog - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:57 pm:
Wonder if the King Air 350 is on the tarmac and fueled up?
- Wumpus - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:58 pm:
Well, the only thing the gov will do is repeat $2,000,000 * 100= 2,000,000,000, sqawk!
- Nice - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:59 pm:
Now guys I want everyone to act swell and be nice and say nice things about Mr. Rezko if the verdict is guilty. Golly gee everyone Golly gee
- Little Egypt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:59 pm:
After all of this deliverating, I’ll have olive soup for lunch.
Blago “Do you know that $200M X 10 is $2B?
- Little Egypt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:00 pm:
Doc, the only way Blago can sweeten a guilty jury verdict is to announce his resignation. Now that’s what I call suuuweeeeet.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:01 pm:
Rich, au contraire. Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
He was the French mouse who was always stealing food from Klondike Kat.
They were on the same Total Television cartoon lineup with Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, Go-Go Gophers and the World of Commander McBragg.
It’s hip, hip, hip and away I go!
- Maggie - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:11 pm:
I’ve been busy so I have not read this blog lately. This may have been asked already. If Rezko
is guilty on several counts will the feds ask that he be locked up until sentencing ? Guilty makes him a bigger flight risk. Has this been discussed here ? What was the consensus ?
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:14 pm:
Rumor: One juror was seen sweating profusely and saying “It’s the kung-pow!”
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:16 pm:
hmmm apparently Word and I watched the same quality televsion programing as children….
The Gov’s response will be simply: “That’s a stupid question, I need to get back to the business of representing the people” (at least the ones who can pay the 25k fee)
- OneMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:24 pm:
== The answer will be: “The governor is unavailable for comment.” ==
I think it will be “He is unavailable for comment since he is busy working on the needs of hard working widows and orphans and he is most certainly not digging a secret tunnel to leave his home office without anyone seeing him”
- In the Land of Silos and Cows ... - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:29 pm:
***Snark/Fake***
For Immediate Release
Ill. Dept. of Health to Shut Down all Chicago Panda Express Restaurants
Chicago IL - The Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois announces the closing of all Panda Express restaurants for a period of “inspection” as directed by the Illinois Department of Health.
“In time, when the state feels Panda Express will not do harm to the state, and the governor’s administration, the Illinois Department of Health will revist this ‘order’and consider those restaurants possible reopening.”
- OneMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:32 pm:
I just realized that the coffee stained verdict form could have been a unique Illinois political collectable. Hope someone saved it.
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:34 pm:
We could use it as a rorschach test for future political leaders….
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:35 pm:
OneMan, the judge told them to save it.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:36 pm:
It’s 2:36. Did the jury get back from lunch yet?
*burp*
- OneMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:40 pm:
Cool, perhaps someday we can have the Illinois museum of political history.
– The Coffee Stained Verdict Form
– A Shoebox from Paul Powell…
– A CDL from the Ryan years
Just think of the options.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:43 pm:
Sounds like a great QOTD.
- He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:56 pm:
I can’t believe it is taking this long
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:01 pm:
Oneman, the CDL is good for the SOS years, but perhaps a bag of shredded documents for the Gov years as well.
- One of the 35 - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:05 pm:
If Rezko is found guilty on all counts, I have a suggested question for the Governor: Governor, 24 guilty counts,do you realize that is 12 counts times 2?
- Dirt Guy - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:14 pm:
Patience people. Don’t you know that Asa Breeney, the bank guard from the “Andy Griffith Show” is the bailiff guarding the jury room door? The old coot is hard to wake up and it takes him awhile to get the papers to and from the jury to the judge and back again.
- The Reaper - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:15 pm:
There always has to be one juror holding everything up.. convict him already and start on Blago!
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:15 pm:
I sure would like to see today’s date on the verdict form.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:18 pm:
Or 6 guilty counts times 4, or 8 guilty counts times 3!
- Dirt Guy - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:20 pm:
Is it a juror or one of the counts of indictments that is hanging up the jury? If it is one of the counts I wonder which one it is. There are multiple counts on each charge, so what’s the delay?
- Long Range Plan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:23 pm:
Using the jury verdict form; is it possible for someone to provide the federal sentencing guidelines for each count?
- steve schnorf - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:25 pm:
Rich, off topic, but thanks for the Bo Diddley. Most people on here might never have seen him.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:41 pm:
Nah, I know who Bo Diddley was. She was in that movie, “Ten”, right?
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:54 pm:
Bo Knows!
- Reddbyrd - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:59 pm:
Wasn’t that one the Bo who lost her sheep?
The Bo in the movie lost other stuff
- Little Egypt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:02 pm:
Is there no hope for politics. First we have a national scandal of a stain on a dress. Now we have an Illinois jury scandal of a stain on a piece of paper. I give up.
- This Guy - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:03 pm:
I think the sheep loser was Bo Duke, but I could be wrong. :)
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:07 pm:
Time to wake up the jury so they can go home…
- A Citizen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:11 pm:
Chophouse reservations for 12 at 6:30. Make it 7:00.
- cover - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:16 pm:
Thanks, Steve, for taking on the role of Dr. Johnny Fever. “Who will tell the children about Bo Diddley?”
I actually saw Bo Diddley in concert in 1993, but he did not perform any of his early-rock hits, it was all newer material. Not bad stuff, but I certainly would have liked to hear “Who Do You Love?” that night.
- 5+ years of fog - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:18 pm:
Illinois future hangs in the balance, sure hope these jurors know what they are doing.
- BandCamp - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:23 pm:
Just my take, but I think these jurors are eating this up and when they finally come out, it’ll be “late breaking news” because let’s face it, these jurors are going to get their 15 minutes when it’s over.
But I, like most, am eager for this thing to wrap up, one way or another.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:36 pm:
===I think these jurors are eating this up===
I think the jurors are doing their jobs. Let’s just give them some space.
Yes, they’ve done some funny stuff, like the coffee and the breaks, etc. But jurors in this country are, for the most part an extremely conscientious lot.
We could all think of exceptions, but I’ve seen a bunch of comments here and elsewhere impugning this group’s integrity without the slightest shred of evidence. That’s a bit much.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:39 pm:
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard….
…will Tony get off or be a jailbird?
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:47 pm:
But why did The Combine order the jurors to go home so early?
Very truly yours,
Diersen
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:47 pm:
We need a date/time and guilty/innocent count number prediction thread.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:48 pm:
If he is found guilty, will he be taken into custody immediately?
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:49 pm:
Chophouse reservations for 12 at 6:30. Make it 7:00.
On what day?
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:53 pm:
But jurors in this country are, for the most part an extremely conscientious lot.
And if they were just going through the motions, you’d think they’d be done by now. Could be, that extra time that they have allotted themselves to accommodate some jurors’ lives has also let them sleep on a lot of what they have heard, and helped answer many conscientious questions even as some are left unanswered for now.
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 5:01 pm:
“But jurors in this country are, for the most part an extremely conscientious lot”
I’m not sure that is true. I definitely have seen juries who worked hard to come to a fair verdict. I’ve also had trials where the jurors delivered strange compromise verdicts showing that they deliberately ignored the judge’s instructions (doing things like giving a plaintiff all of the medical bills, but not a dime more — was the person injured or not?)
MANY jurors come into trials with their own agenda. In personal injury cases, many have a difficult time understanding that the plaintiff might have caused his own injuries. Others have bizarre notions of the “insurance crisis” or want to rant about other personal issues. More than a few seem to be biased based on race or other factors (it is tough to weed those jurors out, since few admit it).
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 5:31 pm:
WARNING-SNARKY POST AHEAD-DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED OR AN INSURANCE AGENT.
Well, Skeet, AA hopes he never would have to go to court as the plaintiff in a Med Mal or PI case with you on the jury because we all know which side of the ambulance you’re on.
The only “insurance crisis” AA has seen recently is when too many Troxell guys are playing Panther and they slow the whole course down, as they’re deathly afraid of banging a Titleist into someone’s picture window.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 7:34 pm:
I’m calling it right now.
NOT GUILTY on all counts.
And the blago federal case will be put back at least another year.
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:42 pm:
nah it will be guilty on 15 counts