U.S. District Judge James Zagel had briefly considered scheduling trial proceedings around the show on May 10, but said at the time that it would probably be "a little over the top." Now out of the potential pool of jurors for Blagojevich's trial, she'll get to use her four tickets and see Oprah live.

Other jurors still in the pool include a probation officer who sometimes works in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse and who knows Zagel. The defense argued to kick her out because she would have a bias toward attorneys, but Zagel said he didn't really think there was much of an "alignment" between the two.