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CHICAGO - They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a "political corruption crime spree" that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison. Not close enough. On vote after vote, the jury kept coming up one juror short - a lone holdout who wouldn't budge and would agree only that Blagojevich lied to the FBI. "The person just did not see the evidence that everyone else did," said juror Stephen Wlodek.
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By Robert Boczkiewicz SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DENVER -- An appeals court says a convict serving a 10-year prison sentence by mistake is the victim of errors in Topeka by the judge, the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
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ATLANTA - Georgia's board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis on Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including an ex- president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. today by injection for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot dead while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis' execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.
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By William Kaempffer Register Staff wkaempffer@nhregister.com VERNON -- Ronald Taylor died a convicted killer in the eyes of the state, and a Superior Court judge's ruling Tuesday kept him that way.
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SIERRA MADRE - Police announced Thursday that they have opened an investigation into a politically connected member of the Chamber of Commerce after he was convicted in Canada of possessing child porn. On Tuesday, Robert Matheson, 66, pleaded guilty in a Canadian court to possession and smuggling of child pornography.
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Ronald Taylor died a convicted killer in the eyes of the state, and a Superior Court judge's ruling Tuesday kept him that way. In a ruling from the bench, Judge Samuel Sferrazza dismissed Taylor's habeas corpus petition, in which an inmate claims unlawful incarceration, as moot because he could not stand trial again because he's dead.
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Police officers expressed dismay last week over the man leaders in the black community have chosen as their latest symbol of racial inequality when it comes to city law enforcement. Police acknowledge that racial tensions exist in Niagara Falls, but they say the man the black leaders are defending has a string of arrests stretching back to the 1990s that include felony robbery and burglary charges.
