Wall Street Journal editorial calls on US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to resign

A Washington Post editorial says a re-trial would be 'persecution.'

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(PR NewsChannel) / August 19, 2010 / CHICAGO / Two national newspapers printed editorials calling for US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to back off Gov. Rod Blagojevich, one paper called on him to resign.  Earlier this week, Blagojevich was convicted on just one of 24 felony counts against him in federal court. A federal jury could agree only on the least serious charge of lying to the FBI five years ago in the case against the former governor of Illinois.

The Washington Post editorial says "Mr. Fitzgerald's team needed to convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt. It didn't...the prosecutor took his shot and lost."

(To read The Washington Post editorial, please visit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/18/AR2010081805283.html)

The Post says Fitzgerald is now bordering on the line of persecution, just as the governor said after he left the courtroom Tuesday afternoon.

In a separate editorial this morning, The Wall Street Journal calls for the prosecutor's resignation after what it calls a pattern of poor attempts for prosecution against high-profile defendants.

The Journal says, "If Mr. Fitzgerald doesn't resign of his own accord, the Justice Department should remove him. The fiasco marked another defeat for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, whose conduct more and more suggests another unaccountable federal prosecutor run amok."

(To read The Wall Street Journal's editorial, please visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437490986410482.html?KEYWORDS=blagojevich)

Fitzerald's team announced in court this week, it will seek to retry the former governor after it failed to win favor with the jury on the more serious charges against Blagojevich and his brother, Robert.

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