(The Center Square) – Closing arguments are set to begin Wednesday at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago.
Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of bribery, racketeering and official misconduct in a trial that began with jury selection on Oct. 8.
Chicago attorney Sam Adam Jr. represented Rod Blagojevich in the former Illinois governor’s first corruption trial in 2010. Adam said the government has to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
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“Just because it may look like smoke and smell like smoke, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Is the evidence so clear that it has to be fire? That’s the only way you can convict, because it has to be
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