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GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS.

THE ALLEGED MASTERMIND BEHIND THE BRIBERY.

JURORS FOUND THAT CONTRACTORS WERE AWARDED WITH JOBS IN EXCHANGE FOR LEGISLATION PASSED.

JOINING US IS JURY MEMBER AMANDA SCHNIDTKER.

YOU HAD SO MUCH EVIDENCE.

WHAT CONVINCED YOU AND THE OTHER JURORS THAT THIS AMOUNTED TO BRIBERY?

>> IT IS NOT JUST ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT CONVINCE US ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

THERE WERE SOME KEY PIECES FOR SURE.

THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MICHAEL MADIGAN AND MIKE McLEAN, THOSE WERE PRIME EVIDENCE.

WE WOULD NOTICE THAT AFTER HE TALKED WITH MICHAEL MADIGAN HE WOULD TURN RIGHT AROUND AND TALK ABOUT IT ON THE CALL.

THERE WERE FOUR CALLS, AND McLEAN TURNED AROUND AND TALKED TO SAID THEY'LL.

THEY SAID YES AND THEY TURNED AROUND AND CALLED MADIGAN BACK.

>> SO ALL THOSE RECORDINGS, ALL THE VIDEO, ALL THAT WITNESS TESTIMONY, WHAT WAS THAT 27 HOURS LIKE?

>> IT WAS INTENSE.

IT WAS VERY INTENSE.

WE WORKED VERY HARD.

THE JURORS, WE HAD ALL GOTTEN TO KNOW EACH OTHER VERY WELL AROUND THE TIME OF THE TRIAL, WHICH WAS GOOD CONSIDERING WE HAVE A LOT TO GO OVER.

EVERYONE WAS RESPECTFUL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS.

BUT DISCUSSIONS DID GET A LITTLE HEATED AT SOME POINTS, AS IT SHOULD HAVE.

EVERYTHING WAS VERY CIVIL AND PROFESSIONAL.

>> SO THERE WERE DISAGREEMENTS ON SOME OF THE COUNTS?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

THIS IS WHY IT TOOK US SO LONG.

THOSE OF US WHO WOULD FEEL STRONGLY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER?

EVERY OTHER JURORS STOPPED, GAVE THEM TIME TO SPEAK, THEN WE WOULD DISCUSS THEIR VIEWPOINTS.

THOSE OF US WHO HAD EVIDENCE SAID THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE NOT GUILTY.

WE REALLY RESPECT THAT.

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LET ME PULL THIS EMAIL.

LET ME PULL ALL OF THIS EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY THAT I HAVE WRITTEN IN MY NOTEBOOK AND LET ME READ THAT FOR YOU.

OTHER PEOPLE DON'T GET TO HAVE THAT SAME EVIDENCE.

THAT WOULD REFRESH THE OTHER JUROR'S MEMORY AND THEY WOULD THINK ABOUT IT.

SOMETIMES WE WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND TAKE A BREAK ON THAT WHILE SOME OF THE JURORS REALLY PONDERED IT OVER A COUPLE OF HOURS, THEN WE WOULD COME BACK TO THAT.

>> THEN EVENTUALLY EVERYBODY DID COME TO CONSENSUS.

WHAT IS THE MESSAGE HERE, THE BROADER MESSAGE SENT TO OFFICEHOLDERS IN SPRINGFIELD GIVEN THIS VERDICT RELATED TO HOW MADIGAN RAN THINGS AND HOW SO MANY PEOPLE IN SPRINGFIELD HAVE RUN THINGS FOR SO MANY YEARS?

>> I THINK THAT IT IS CLEAR.

THIS IS VERY CLEAR.

WE DO NOT WANT TO STAND FOR THIS SORT OF CORRUPTION.

WHETHER THE END RESULT WAS SOMETHING BETTER THAT HAD COME ALONG IN A LEGAL FASHION, JUST BECAUSE THE END RESULT DID NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS, WE DID NOT WANT TO SEE OUR STATE RUN LIKE THAT.

THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR THAT THINGS NEED TO OCCUR ALONG PROPER CHANNELS.

WE HAVE A GREAT