Mayor Kilpatrick Ordered To Jail - Start Your Stopwatches

Mayor Kilpatrick ordered to jail on bond violation

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, agreed Thursday to waive their preliminary hearings and proceed to trial on multiple felonies, but a judge still must determine whether the mayor has violated the terms of his bond.They expect to be arraigned in Wayne Circuit Court on Aug. 14.

One major issue, though, remains for Giles to decide Thursday: Whether Kilpatrick violated the terms of his bond with a recent trip across the Detroit River to Windsor.

Saying that Kilpatrick "isn't taking responsibility" for violating his bond, Assistant Prosecutor Robert Moran asked 36th District Judge Robert Giles to cut off all travel for the mayor -- business and personal. Kilpatrick was supposed to notify the court 48 hours in advance of out of state travel, but slipped for 45 minutes to Canada on July 23.

"He didn't notify anyone ... he left country, he left the state ...but we found out about it from the media," Moran said. "That is a flagrant violation of bond."

"This is just not serious to him," Moran said. "We want the travel cut off ...this court should be outraged."

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Giles was considering the request about 10:30 a.m. Earlier, he was annoyed that he wasn't notified of the trip until he learned about it from a reporter.

"Who was dying? Who was sick?" Giles said.

"The city of Detroit," responded James C. Thomas, an attorney for Kilpatrick.

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The trip also happened the day before Kilpatrick allegedly had a physical confrontation with a Wayne County sheriff's detective that resulted in Giles increasing the mayor's personal recognizance bond to 10 percent of $75,000, tightening his travel restrictions and ordering random drug tests.

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I am watching this on CNN as I read it online, incredible.

More bad notoriety for Detroit.

The prolific amount of ego needed to feel court orders do not apply to you must make Kwame's head hurt.

If You or I left the country in direct violation of a court order, there wouldn't be a hearing, our asses would be in Stalag 13 uber schnell.

"The city of Detroit is dying" good one....if I were the judge I would have warned the defense attorney to properly respond to the context of the questions from the court or come back when he gained a healthier respect for the court and held his client in a holding cell in the meantime.

What a smart ass.

I recommend giving the patient an immediate infusion of the $9,000,000.00 the mayor lost for Detroit by lying to the court in the first place.





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