Chicago Democrat William Beavers is asking a judge to toss his tax-evasion conviction, arguing that the selection of jurors in the district is fundamentally flawed and resulted in no black men on his jury.
Jurors endured hours of dry testimony Monday morning, as prosecutors led Beavers’ accountant through a line-by-line explanation of four years’ worth of tax returns and earnings documents.
The judge in the tax-evasion trial of an influential Chicago Democrat has imposed a gag order on attorneys a day after a defense lawyer said jury-pool selection was rigged.
