Judge will release text messages in Beatty trial
A Wayne Circuit Court judge today ordered the release of most of the estimated 200 text messages in the criminal trial of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief of staff, Christine Beatty, but gave defense attorneys until Thursday to obtain a stay from the Michigan Court of Appeals.
The messages will be released Thursday barring any appeals court action.
Wayne Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny listened to arguments from prosecutors, who want to unseal a 200 message sample from more than 625,000 communications obtained under subpoena now being offered to verify Kilpatrick and Beatty sent and received the texts on city-owned pagers.
The judge told lawyers last week that the law favors release of at least some of the messages. He said he was concerned about specifically protected conversations, like discussions with lawyers or with spouses. But he warned Beatty's lawyers that he wasn't convinced by written arguments against release previously submitted to the court.
"Unless there is some good reason given, they aren't supposed to be sealed unless there is some compelling reason to do so," Kenny told the lawyers on Thursday. "Otherwise this is supposed to be done in the sunshine."
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Good job to Wayne Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny.
Please allow justice to follow this through.
Christine Beatty's lawyers delayed only in the hopes of avoiding the media spotlight before her nasty cooter talk is divulged to the world.
Well Christine sorry but we are going to read every nasty piece of trash you wrote in order to ...no, not to get off.... but to get to the bottom of the corruption involved in your insipid administration.
Welcome To Detroit
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