Prosecution rests; Blagojevich defense to present case next week

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

In a remarkably slimmed down case, federal prosecutors rested Thursday afternoon in the retrial of former governor Rod Blagojevich.

The prosecution, which had publicly estimated it would take five weeks to put on a case, rested after just 11 days of witness testimony.

After hearing from jurors in Blagojevich’s first trial, prosecutors reordered witnesses and cut down their testimony considerably. They also eliminated some witnesses all together.

The prosecution ended with Special Agent FBI Dan Cain on the witness stand.