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Blago Attorneys Want to Delay Trial
CHICAGO (AP) -- Attorneys for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich say they want to delay a retrial now set for January by five months to give them more time to prepare.

A motion filed in federal court in Chicago on Friday says a drastically reduced number of lawyers on the defense team means they'll need until May to get ready.

Now that the broke ex-governor will have to rely on taxpayers to foot his legal bills, Judge James Zagel has said Blagojevich can only have two attorneys and a paralegal. Blagojevich's attorneys say they had more than a dozen lawyers on the case at the first trial.

Zagel could rule on the matter at a Friday afternoon status hearing.
Blagojevich was convicted of lying to the FBI in his first trial, but jurors deadlocked on 23 other counts.

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