Detroit Mayor Jailed For Jumping Bail

Kwame Kilpatrick, Awaiting Trial On Perjury Charges, Wasn't Allowed To Leave Country

(CBS/AP)  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to the county jail after a judge found he violated the terms of his bond by going to Canada and not informing the court.

The ruling by Judge Ronald Giles came after the mayor apologized to the court, saying it won't happen again.

The judge says he would have given the same treatment to any criminal defendant.

"What matters to me though is how the court overall is perceived and how if it was not Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat, if it was John Six-Pack sitting in that seat, what would I do? And that answer is simple," he said.

Kilpatrick's attorneys immediately headed across town to circuit court where they intended to ask a judge there to release their client on appeal.

"The judge did what he thought was right. We don't agree," said defense lawyer James Thomas.

Earlier Thursday, Kilpatrick waived his right to a preliminary examination and will head to trial on perjury and other criminal charges that could land him in prison for up to 15 years.

He has denied the charges.

Lawyers for the mayor and ex-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty asked Giles to waive next month's preliminary examination. The criminal case now heads to Wayne County Circuit Court for trial.

Kilpatrick attorney James Parkman said going straight to circuit court will speed up the case.

Kilpatrick and Beatty are charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice. They are accused of lying about having an intimate relationship and their roles in the firing of a police official.

Beatty also denies the charges.

Giles asked the defendants during Thursday morning's hearing if they freely agreed to waive their rights to a preliminary exam and both said they did.

The judge then set a circuit court arraignment date of Aug. 14.

The preliminary exam - a hearing where a judge determines whether there's probable cause to hold a trial - had been set for Sept. 22.

The Wayne County prosecutor's office on Thursday also asked Giles to punish Kilpatrick because it said the mayor failed to notify the court of a trip to Canada.

Assistant prosecutor Robert Moran argued Kilpatrick should have told Giles of the trip. The mayor went across the border last month to push the sale of the city's half of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

Kilpatrick is required to alert the court of all travel plans.

Kilpatrick and Beatty denied under oath during a civil trial last year that they had a romantic relationship in 2002 and 2003.

But excerpts of sexually explicit text messages recovered from Beatty's city-issued pager and first published in January by the Detroit Free Press contradicted their testimony.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Kilpatrick and Beatty less than two months later. Fingerprinted with their booking photos broadcast across the country, the pair were accused of lying under oath about their relationship and about their roles in the firing of a police official.

More text messages released in April revealed the evolution of flirty and sexually explicit exchanges to professions of love and promises of marriage.

Kilpatrick and his high-priced team of attorneys have questioned the authenticity of those and other text messages, while fighting battles on several legal and political fronts.

A split city council voted in February to ask Kilpatrick to step down. The nine-member group later asked Gov. Jennifer Granholm to remove the mayor for misconduct and plans to hold forfeiture of office proceedings against him.

The council accused Kilpatrick of violating the city charter by not revealing a confidentiality agreement linked to an $8.4 million settlement in the civil lawsuit.

Through it all Kilpatrick has remained defiant.

[lochlan-2009]

The judge says he would have given the same treatment to any criminal defendant.


Give this judge a metal, (no sarcasm). These are the type of people this country needs to represent the legal system.
Congratulations Judge, for being just in a country that justice is seldom seen anymore.

[promaclaura]

On a serious note, Kwame Kilpatrick you need to step down. Think of the people of Detroit now, instead of your overinflated ego. Your trial cost the taxpayers millions of dollars and you lied under oath. It would have been better if you had just fessed up. With a floundering Detroit and a school system that is in the toilet your spending millions to protect your overinflated vision of yourself is beyond the pale. Your Mama won her election just barely, and ol Jenny Granholm can''t protect you much longer, we all realize it was the Detroit vote and your Mother that got her elected.

Although I must say that Detroit dug their own hole when they voted him in. Kwame''s opponent was likeable and showed the necessary skills to help Detroit, but he didn''t play the "home-boy" role that Kwame used to fool his constituents. Why is it the "fake flash" (earring, gold jewelry, fancy cars, rowdy parties, huge bodyguard brigade, expensive vacations) that draw these people in?

[promaclaura]

Bailiff, whack his pee pee


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Posted by pirmin3 at 06:55 AM : Aug 08, 2008

That was funny.

[mydiatribe]

LIBERALS do not believe the morality of their public officials should EVER be brought into question publicly. Like Bill Clinton, who also lied under oath to cover up his dalliances.
Is there a pattern here?

LYING under oath is a CRIME = PERJURY, period, a complete contempt for the law.

This routine contempt for traditional laws is, I believe, a value Liberalism holds at its core.

It''s why I won''t be voting for The Liberal Barack Obama in the fall. It''s got nothing to do with his RACE, Thank You!

[pirmin3]

Bailiff, whack his pee pee

[jehovahwtnss]

Actually he was born on a military base in Panama, which is soveriegn U.S territory. Nice try.

Posted by bretster7 at 03:01 PM : Aug 07, 2008

Actually bretster7, only the military base at the Atlantic end of the canal was the freehold property of the US Government. If McCain was born anywhere else in the Panama Canal Zone, then he wasn''t born on US Sovereign Territory

[keithle1]

"Kwame"... Give me a break with that name. So many stupid, silly women giving birth. Oy vey.

Is anything critical that a white person says about black people automatically racist?

[keithle1]

"Mature men" do not want to meet mature women. They want to meet YOUNG women.

[keithle1]

Can we sell Detroit to Canada?

He wanted his momma to have a nice booking photo of him. That''s why he''s smiling.

Black mayors/politicians do get a free ride in the black community. Look what Wash DC''s former Mayor Barry got up to. "Us vs them" mentality. They won''t criticize anything the black mayor/politician does & certainly don''t want to hear it from a "non-black."
Maybe they draw the line at Satan worship & molesting children.

You have two choices for President: Democrat or Republican. Unless you have enjoyed the last eight years & think the Republicans are great, you''re going to vote for Obama. What are our options?

How many average middle class black people vote Republican? If McCain was black, do you think blacks would vote for him?

How many people who voted for Bush are happy they did?

Will they even admit they voted for Bush after the new Prez is inaugurated?

[abmitus]

What a DUMDA$$. Must be a Republican hiding in a Democrat suit.

[demwatcher]

Another Democrat politician, another criminal.

Same old story.

[brianbwb-2009]

"...But that doesn%u2019t matter, because there is just no way they would vote for McCain over Obama. Why?"... Posted by michaelt302

Because the party to which McSame claims is guilty of decades of promoting intolerance, and advocates the continuation of apartheid towards its non "White" citizens, and whose most vocal proponents include David Duke, the Pats, Buchanan and Robertson, Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Hannity, and several more examples of America''s most virulent racist sociopaths.

Any sane "Black" person would not vote for such a party, as it is a vote for their own destruction.

"...McCain is white. If you reversed the situation, it%u2019s be called racism. But, you see, blacks can%u2019t be racist. Only whites can be racist. Blacks, rather, are just supporting their own." Posted by michaelt302

The difference is clear, it is not racism, because "Black" people have a history as the victims of injustice, that continues to this day, as valid reasons not to vote for a "White" candidate, the racist "Whites" have nothiing but false stereotypes and hysterical speculation.

[coco0331]

Lets not screw up the prosicution with anything cheap. It needs to be known if his trip was really necessary, or was it being used as a ploy. he needs to resign.

[dixxson-2009]

They bleeped out my words twice, $ex, police.
They proved my case

[dixxson-2009]

Lying under oath: About ***.: *** Police. Mark Thurman kind of lies, Kills, yet where are they now, still lying. Misconduct, a matter of which side you,re on! The McNeil Martin day school child molestation case, Clinton Impeachment, Martha Stewart Travesty, Spanish Inquisitions, Salem Witch Trials, Religious Human Sacrifice, Lynchings, Beheading, Impalement, Crucifixion, things change but somehow they remain the same!

[txgrouch2006]

I smell a recall. Why has there not been one already??
Posted by smallman07 at 09:22 PM : Aug 07, 2008

Because he''d probably get elected all over again.

Remember, Marion Barry was elected BACK INTO OFFICE after he was videotaped smoking crack. Same would happen to this guy.

[smallman07]

I smell a recall. Why has there not been one already??

[txgrouch2006]

Lib Judges + Dems Politicians = Corruption of Law.
Posted by DemWatcher at 07:22 PM : Aug 07, 2008

Democrats will be Democrats.

[notfooled]

Being a Dem, a Liberal judge will give him a pass. And Libs will forget it ever happened.

Just like Barry, Jefferson, Nagin, Clinton, Kennedy . . .

Lib Judges + Dems Politicians = Corruption of Law.

Posted by DemWatcher at 07:22 PM : Aug 07, 200

We have a Rethuglican president who''s broken more laws than you shake a stick at, who''s killed a million humans in the quest for oil profits and you blather on about dems and libs.

You choose to only see what you want. How narrow and ignorant.

[beehive21-2009]

Is he Marion Barrys bro ?