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What should be the take-away from the Blogo verdict and the Clemens indictment?

By Douglas A. Berman

Unsurprisingly, the two biggest federal criminal justice events of the week -- the incomplete jury verdict in the criminal trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (noted here) and the indictment of former all-star MLB pitcher Roger Clemens (available here) -- have both generated lots of media punditry and lots of comments on this blog and elsewhere.  I am wondering, however, if readers have an ability and interest in connecting the two stories.  Specifically, I am wondering if most folks view both cases as involving similar interests and concerns and thus consider both prosecutions as of equal value in the expenditure of federal prosecutorial time and resources.  Or, do some see it especially important and valuable that the feds went after a particular one of these two blowhards, but especially problematic and wasteful that the feds are going after the other...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 21, 2010 (boomark / email).