Blagojevich lawyers aim to try, try, try again

[The Northerner]

Chicago (CNN) -- Lawyers for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have filed in federal court a laundry list of alleged errors in his retrial -- which ended last month in his conviction on public corruption charges -- and asked for yet another trial.

"Rod Blagojevich was convicted based on the speculations and inferences of government witnesses (through their 'understandings') who wrongly translated innocent conversations into crimes," the document says.

The 158-page motion for judgment of acquittal, arrest of judgment or a new trial was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division.

It takes aim at prosecutors and the judge, beginning with alleged pretrial errors and ending with the court's allegedly improper denial of Blagojevich's motions for a mistrial.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/26/illinois.blagojevich/