FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, speaks to reporters as his wife, Patti, listens at the federal building in Chicago, after Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years on 18 corruption counts. On Monday, March 28, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Blagojevich's appeal of his corruption convictions that included his attempt to sell the vacant Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors say they won't retry former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on the five counts tossed by a federal appeals court and have requested a resentencing date.
Federal prosecutors made the filing on Wednesday, two days after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Blagojevich's appeal of his remaining corruption convictions. Those convictions included his attempt to sell an appointment to the vacant Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama.
The high court was one of the 59-year-old Democrat's last hopes to reduce his 14-year prison sentence.
A federal appeals court in July vacated Blagojevich's convictions on five counts and told prosecutors to retry or resentence him.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they wouldn't retry him and asked for a resentencing date.
FILE - In this March 14, 2012 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accompanied by his wife Patti, speaks to the media outside his home in Chicago. The Supreme Court on Monday, March 28, 2016, rejected Blagojevich's appeal of his corruption convictions that included his attempt to sell the vacant Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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