Detroit Mayor Rejects Deal In Assault Case

(AP)  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's legal team is rejecting the offer of a plea deal in the assault case against him.

The surprising offer came this morning from the Michigan attorney general's office. What it was, basically, was: Resign by September 3rd in exchange for dismissal of one of the two assault charges.

But Kilpatrick's attorney says the legal team is "preparing for trial."

The mayor is accused of shoving a sheriff's detective into another investigator while they tried to serve a subpoena on a Kilpatrick friend last month. He's pleading not guilty.

It's one of two criminal cases against the mayor. A conviction on the assault charges carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.

Separately, Kilpatrick and his former top aide, Christine Beatty, are charged with conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Kilpatrick is a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver. Thomas said last week the mayor is interested in attending but conditions of his bond in the assault case prevent him from traveling outside the metro Detroit area.

A hearing was scheduled for Monday on Kilpatrick's bond conditions.

Separately, Kilpatrick and his former top aide, Christine Beatty, were charged in March with conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office, mostly tied to their testimony in a civil trial. Sexually explicit text messages between the pair, published by the Detroit Free Press in January, contradict their sworn denials of an affair, a key point in the trial last year involving a former deputy police chief.

Meanwhile, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is scheduled on Sept. 3 to consider a request from the Detroit City Council to have Kilpatrick removed from office. Under Michigan law, a governor can remove an elected official for misconduct. That hearing could last several days.

Granholm declined Friday to discuss anything involving Kilpatrick.

[cepe10-2009]

The sheriffs deputy sounds full of *** in the story they have come up with. Pure political corruption in my opinion - prosecutor and the law enforcement. They could have served him in his office easily enough - this is pure corruption and harassment.

[milesbrown49]

All the charges now sound bogus and the DA sounds desperate. What arsewholes are in Detroit now. If that man and that woman had an affair, it had nothing to do with his job. Someone should hire a detective to find out the DA''s low downs too!!!

[gramto8]

Republican lawmakers never get "deals". They never need them for they are honest and never get into any trouble. Republicans are corruption free leadership.

Posted by gop_forever at 11:58 AM : Aug 22, 2008
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gop_forever: You must really feel awful possessing a single digit IQ

Posted by rixmix98 at 12:22 PM : Aug 22, 2008
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Gop forever
I would love to meet you! I bet you love it every time one of these people fall for your BS! You have got to be having the time of your life making all these folks think, or just do a quick knee-jerk and react. Thanks for many a good laugh!!

[honestabe8]

Keithe: White people don''t make excuses?

[patriot12436]

usmcvn1
Let me get this straight, you blame the white flight as part of the poroblem, yet you admit you were part of the flight. I had a friend who was black and fled Detroit. I still remember him talking about how bad it was to live there.

[keithle1]

Stop making excuses for black men. Whites don''t make excuses for the bad things that white men do.

[honestabe8]

brianbwb: don''t forget bad roads, too

[platteman]

KK is an arrogant black man. He thinks he is above the law and so why should he even consider a deal. He doesn''t think he will convicted, so why deal.

Problem is this. 8.4 million dollars that the taxpayers had to pay out. He hid his affair, used city equiptment to text messages, who knows what else he has done.

I hope BO picks him for a cabnet post. We need another thug in the party.

[usmcvn1]

P.S.........GO BEARS!!!

[usmcvn1]

Once again I agree. Young was not the whole problem, but his "hate" did not help. The auto companys showed thier racism as did the whites with the big "white flight" escape. I do remember that at the time everybody was blaming anything and anyone "black". In the the early 70''s the draw down and end of the "war" caused a recession that did''nt help nor did the blame factor. I would think as I now look back, that we cannot blame any "one factor or person" I agree with what you say about Washington.

Also, let us remember, Detroit was the biggest "HILLBILLY TOWN" is the Northern United States. Which also caused a lot of division and hate.

I cannot form an opinion of todays problems in Detroit as I have been so far removed by the years. However, it seems Mr.K is not as bad as the press makes him out to be! Perhaps the inbred hated of Detroiters is going to destroy him.


Well, as I said, I''m in agreement with you. I perhaps
have a differant way of explaining it. What you have to say makes a lot of sence. I wonder, where do we go from here? Not only Detroit, the the country as a whole.
Obama/Bidin 2008!!

I have to go, have a good one Brian.