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Two-time presidential candidate John Edwards did not accept illegal campaign contributions from a Virginia heiress, a North Carolina jury ruled Thursday after more than eight days of deliberations. But whether he’ll face up to 25 years for conspiracy, lying on campaign finance reports, and illegally taking other contributions could take years to sort out. After jurors deadlocked on five of the six charges filed against Edwards, U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles on Thursday agreed to defense attorney Abbe Lowell‘s request for …

Two-time presidential candidate John Edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up an extramarital affair and hide his mistress, in violation of campaign finance laws, prosecutors argued in opening statements Monday. Edwards, 58, a Democrat and former U.S. senator from North Carolina, faces four charges of collecting illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy and one of making false statements. The six felony charges could cost him a maximum of $1.5 million and land him in prison …

By  Dan Abrams, attorney, legal analyst and longtime television news anchor. Currently Dan is the Legal Analyst for ABC News and the founder of the Abrams Media Network of web sites. John Edwards is a broken man. The one time luminary of the Democratic Party has become a political footnote, a cautionary tale and an almost universally reviled human being. But he is not likely to become a convicted criminal. Typically, when a political leader is caught in some sort …