Blago Won't Testify
The Chicago Tribune reports that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has decided to not take the stand in his corruption trial.
Standing before a crowd of reporters, cameras and microphones in the courthouse lobby, Rod Blagojevich said he wanted to testify but took the advice of his attorney Sam Adam Sr., who convinced him the prosecution hadn't proven its case.
"I felt all along and believed all along that I was going to testify," he said. But he said the government case wasn't as they presented it, without calling witnesses Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Stuart Levine, both convicted in the federal probe
Blagojevich said with the father-son lawyers on his legal team in disagreement over his testimony, he picked the elder attorney's advice.
"Sam Junior still at this moment wanted me to testify and frankly, so did I," Blagojevich said.
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