Kwame Kilpatrick

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Might be headed back to jail

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...EWS01/80810051

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick violated the terms of his bond by spending time at his mother’s house in Detroit on Saturday while his sister, a witness in an assault case against him, was there, a spokesman for the state Attorney General’s Office said Sunday.



State lawyers will take action Monday in 36th District Court, according to Rusty Hills, a spokesman for Attorney General Mike Cox.

Ayanna Kilpatrick, the mayor’s sister, was present when Kwame Kilpatrick allegedly pushed Wayne County Sheriff’s Detective Brian White into JoAnn Kinney, an investigator for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, while White and Kinney were attempting to serve a subpoena to Bobby Ferguson, one of the mayor’s friends.

Also present were his brother-in-law and officers in his security detail. The incident happened July 24 at Ayanna Kilpatrick’s home in Detroit.

Cox charged Kwame Kilpatrick with two counts of felonious assault in the case.
“The order’s clear,” Hills said. “There’s not supposed to be contact. There was contact.”

Hills declined to say what bond modification the office was going to request. During a hearing in 36th District Court on Friday, Magistrate Renee McDuffee set Kilpatrick’s bond in the assault case at 10% of $25,000, or $2,500, after he spent a night in the Wayne County Jail for violating the terms of his bond in a perjury and obstruction of justice case.

Marcus Reese, a spokesman for the mayor, denied that Kilpatrick did anything wrong. He said defense attorney James Thomas clarified with McDuffee that Kilpatrick could associate with his sister, his brother-in-law and his bodyguards.

“We think the attorney general” is “more interested in political grandstanding here, than in truly trying the facts of case,” Reese said.

Hills would not comment on reports that Detroit police Sgt. Jefferson Travis, a member of the mayor’s security detail, who is also a witness in the case, was at the home of the mayor’s mother, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit.

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Mayor Kilpatrick's attorney asks about pardon from Granholm

Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's General Counsel Sharon McPhail on Wednesday sent a letter to Gov. Jennifer Granholm's attorney Thursday suggesting that Granholm offer to pardon Kilpatrick on criminal charges in exchange for his testimony at the Sept. 3 removal hearing.
In a previous letter, McPhail had asked Granholm's staff if immunity would be available to Kilpatrick if he testified. But Granholm's attorney Kelly Keenan responded saying Granholm didn't have the power to grant immunity in a criminal case.
McPhail argues that Granholm can't hold an administrative hearing while criminal charges are pending and inquire about the facts surrounding the charges if immunity is not offered.
She argued in the letter again that Granholm should hold off on the hearings until Kilpatrick's criminal charges are resolved. She said she will file motions arguing that the hearings should be delayed.