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* You can read all 100+ pages of the jury’s instructions by clicking here. Happy hunting.
Click here to see the Tribune’s breakdown of the charges against Madigan and McClain.
* You can click here and here to follow the Madigan trial. If you want live updates on the trial, the Sun-Times will be texting out the latest on jury deliberations and the verdict. Click here to sign up.
* ABC Chicago…
The jury in Madigan’s corruption trial returned to court on Friday morning to begin its third day of deliberations.
On Thursday, the jurors sent out a note asking for more highlighters and White Out.
They also let the judge know that on Fridays, they will only deliberate until 3 p.m.
* Tribune…
“Apparently there is some kind of arts and crafts going on back there,” U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey quipped after reading the Thursday note. When another message from the jurors arrived later in the day, the judge joked that it would be a red flag only “if they start asking for pipe cleaners and macaroni.”
The panel was sent back to deliberate at about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday after attorneys presented roughly 27 hours of closing arguments this week and last. Jurors will have to consider 23 counts against Madigan alleging an array of schemes to enrich his political allies and line his pockets. McClain is charged in six of those counts.
To assist their deliberations, jurors have about 100 pages of legal instructions, dozens of undercover recordings, and hundreds of emails, texts and other documents entered into evidence.
* While we await a ruling, federal courthouse reporters Jon Seidel and Jason Meisner flagged these stories…
* Tribune | In State of State speech, Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois needs to ‘root out the purveyors of greed and corruption’: “We must root out the purveyors of greed and corruption — in both parties — whose presence infects the bloodstream of government,” Pritzker said in his midday speech before the General Assembly. “It’s no longer enough to sit idle while under-the-table deals, extortion and bribery persist. Protecting that culture or tolerating it is no longer acceptable. We must take urgent action to restore the public’s trust in our government,” he said.
posted by Isabel Miller
Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 1:11 pm
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A very complicated case for the jury to parse through.
“They also let the judge know that on Fridays, they will only deliberate until 3 p.m.”
I don’t blame them.
Comment by NIU Grad Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 1:25 pm
Can we get a thread including generated images or suggestions for what the jury “art project” looks like? Seems like good Friday fodder.
Comment by NotSoCivilEngineer Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 1:27 pm
The times I have been on a jury we would start out immediately voting on the case as guilty or not guilty. It made sense to do this right away to see where everyone stood. My guess is there is no way that his can happen as such too complicated. I wonder if that is the way most jury trials go if not too many counts.
Comment by clec dcn Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 1:39 pm
I want to know where they get lunch for the jurors. I would be hungry after having to go through the evidence related to 23 counts.
Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 1:43 pm
With such lengthy jury instructions, my first thought is that they were going to need a lot of highlighters. I would think they would first have to review all of that before they could even take a straw poll.
Comment by Excessively Rabid Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 2:05 pm
I hope Madigan serves his time in the same jail cell that Blagojevich served in.
Comment by Just Me 2 Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 2:19 pm
“We must take urgent action to restore the public’s trust in our government,” he said.” So Priztker’s staff will cooperate with AG Kwame Raoul’s lawyers to come up with a statute that allows the state AG to convene a grand jury in Sprinfield independent of the counties to investigate and prosecute politicians and cops? Nathalina Hudson is a former federal prosecutor, she should have some ideas.
Comment by Payback Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 2:27 pm
“We must take urgent action to restore the public’s trust in our government,” he said.”
Say that phrase loudly anywhere in public …for a guaranteed laugh…listen for “Decades late billions of dollars short” comments…amid the guffaws.
Comment by Dotnonymous x Friday, Jan 31, 25 @ 3:10 pm