Detroit Mayor Rejects Deal In Assault Case

One Charge Against Kwame Kilpatrick Would Have Been Dropped If He Resigned By Sept. 3

(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.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by dan_8951

As usual, blaming the symptom, and not the cause, let me correct you.

Why the City of Detroit sucks?

1)Winter
2)No viable economic circulation
3)Underfunded, obsolete infrastructure
4)Lack of diversification
5)Lack of international economic ties
6)Racial intolerance
7)Local government corruption
8)State government corruption
9)Federal Government corruption
10)The Detroit Lions

[brianbwb-2009]

"The police are honorable until proven otherwise." Posted by ApprxAm

You obviously don''t know the history of the Detroit police department, a group of people whose Mob connections, links with suburban "White" supremacist groups, and penchant for terrorism go back generations, perhaps in it''s heyday second only to the NYPD in its corruption.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by usmcvn1

I would posit that Detroit''s downfall began long before Young, the riots started in ''67, on 12th and Pingree streets, two blocks from where our family used to live. They started well before Coleman young''s first term, and were an indication that things had already reached the breaking point for a large part of the residents.

The big four moved out, not because of Young, if that were the case, they wouldn''t have moved all the way to Asia, but to someplace like Auburn Hills, a la the Pistons. They moved abroad to take advantage of slave labor, and import breaks that made it favorable to do so, and that policy was from Washington, not Detroit.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by ApprxAm

Your argument and insult is aimed, not surprisingly, in the wrong direction. My assertion was that something smelled on both sides.

Fighting rumors? Spread by whom, and why, this obvious question you repeatedly ignore.

Scandals? Get real, this is the 21st century, a man''s personal erotic predilections are no longer scandalous, except to hypocrites.

Criminal charges? You yourself wouldn''t see a day in jail if you were charged with such "crimes".

As I said, Mr. K. is obviously not the brightest of bulbs, but there is an obvious and blatant attempt to force him from office, and those behind it are not above extortion to do such, and last time I checked, extortion was also illegal.

Parents? What proof do you offer to condemn a persons parents, I am sure you also did not turn out to be what your parents wanted either, it is called "free will", look it up.

Jackass? I won''t dispute that either, we are both probably jackasses, but at least I am not a blind one.

[usmcvn1]

Posted by brianbwb at 05:48 PM : Aug 22, 2008......................

Brian, What ya said is very true! I was born and grew up in Detroit(proper). Left for the service a few months before the ''67 riots. Returned in 1990, it was unblievable what the city had become. I blame the big four and people living in the ''burbs who own land in Detroit and therefore can vote.

When the *** Coleman Young was voted in the downfall of Detroit began, the big four ran away from Detroit. Coleman also helped destroy the city. And let us NOT forget the people who live in the ''burbs, but can vote in Detroit local elections because they own land in the city, they too have helped destroy Detroit.

BTY, don''t let anyone blame the 1967 riots on the "Blacks" only, was the films, there are many White rioting and looting also.

The Mayor has taken the path of Coleman Young and dishonored himself. Homie, Homie, Homie!

I left Detroit in 1997, and have not returned.

[apprxam]

Brianbwb...Step-up or not, this jackasss needs triming. Was it smart to offer the break in assault charges for a resignation? Sure it was, but he''s too stupid and selfish to quit. Honor know not the man!!!!

Auto industry, 60''s riots, legacy of bad governance...boo freakin hoo. Since taking office, Kwame has spent 90% of his tenure fighting rumors, scandals and criminal charges. Inspite of GM''s bad business affairs, Kwame is an elongated extention of the poor past of Detroit, true, but stupid thugism isn''t hereditary; though he was spoiled by his criminal parents. Not one singletary child has been improve by actions of this administration.

The police are honorable until proven otherwise. These men had no known on-the-job troubles. Your provarications mean very little and does even less to answer the question: Does Kwame need to accept resoncilbility for failing the city residents of Detroit.

Those who protect jackasses are...well, JACKASSES!

[chinesespy78]

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[chinesespy78]

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[chinesespy78]

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[chinesespy78]

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