Juror on sentence: ‘It was a good amount of time’

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Updated: January 9, 2012 10:14AM

The judge nailed it, said jurors who heard the evidence against Rod Blagojevich.

Not only was the 14-year prison term appropriate, but the reasoning U.S. District Judge James Zagel used in coming up with the punishment answered a lot of questions, said Naperville’s Connie Wilson, the forewoman of Blagojevich’s 2011 retrial.

“It was just refreshing to know that things going through his head were things we had talked about in deliberation and things we could not discount,” she said.

Juror John McParland of Villa Park said he was pleased to hear Blagojevich’s apologies, “but hopefully they’re true.

Kimberly Spaetti of Winthrop Harbor said she agreed with Zagel’s sentence; “I thought it was a good amount of time.”

Lauren FitzPatrick, Steve Metsch, Beth Kramer, Steve Lord