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Last Updated on Friday, 8 August 2008 12:54 Written by rslcpol Friday, 8 August 2008 11:11
From Freep.com:
Shortly after Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wakes up in jail this morning — still reeling from becoming the first sitting mayor in Detroit’s 307-year history to spend a night behind bars — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is expected to charge him with felony assault.
The announcement will come just 25 hours after the onetime political wunderkind went to court Thursday, with plans to waive a preliminary examination and speed his way to trial on perjury and other charges from the text message scandal. Instead, he wound up getting locked up.
Kilpatrick appeared devastated when 36th District Judge Ronald Giles, speaking in low-key tones from the bench, made his blockbuster ruling: The mayor’s unauthorized trip to Windsor last month, a bond violation, had earned him a court-ordered trip to the Wayne County Jail.
Immediately.
Watch the video below of Michigan GOP Attorney General Mike Cox…