Reply #13: As an ex-prosecutor

[kanrok]

I am a big fan of Fitzgerald.

He is a straight shooter and generally unfazed by politics.

I do have some major criticisms of him and his office on the Blago case.

He never NEVER should have held the press conference he held when Blago was indicted.

IMHO it was unethical. (I don't like unethical)

I still don't understand why he spiked the Blago investigation before Jesse Jackson Jr. could be implicated on a wiretap.

It makes absolutely no sense to me.

It's been postulated that the prosecution held back evidence that they would have used to cross Blago.

If that's true, it is bush league.

If you have good evidence, use it in your case in chief. Don't bank on the defendant taking the stand.

If Blago skates on most of the charges, FItzgerald takes a hit.

Federal prosecutors (especially in an esteemed office like the Northern District of Illinois, IMHO the second best federal prosecutors office in the US, slightly behind the Southern DIstrict of New York) don't generally take cases unless they are dead-bang winners.