Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is grandstanding with his plea deal offer for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation, a mayoral spokesman said today.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is grandstanding with his plea deal offer for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation, a mayoral spokesman said today.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
... head Friday morning in Wayne County Circuit Court as Prosecutor Douglas Baker of Attorney General Mike Cox's office offered to drop one of the two felony assault charges against Kilpatrick if he would resign and plead guilty to a single charge.Pleading guilty to a felony would cost the mayor his job, result in suspension of his law license and expose him to potential jail time.Baker said...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... him his job and his law license.The talks do not cover assault charges brought by Attorney General Mike Cox, who accuses Kilpatrick of shoving investigators trying to serve a subpoena on his friend Bobby Ferguson in July. In that case, Cox's prosecutor made an offer for Kilpatrick to resign, plead guilty to one felony and see the other assault charge dismissed -- with sentencing left to...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... him his job and his law license.The talks do not cover assault charges brought by Attorney General Mike Cox, who accuses Kilpatrick of shoving investigators trying to serve a subpoena on his friend Bobby Ferguson in July. In that case, Cox's prosecutor made an offer for Kilpatrick to resign, plead guilty to one felony and see the other assault charge dismissed -- with sentencing left to...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... him his job and his law license.The talks do not cover assault charges brought by Attorney General Mike Cox, who accuses Kilpatrick of shoving investigators trying to serve a subpoena on his friend Bobby Ferguson in July. In that case, Cox's prosecutor made an offer for Kilpatrick to resign, plead guilty to one felony and see the other assault charge dismissed -- with sentencing left to...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... provide a venue for an announcement of a plea deal. It would be likely to involve Attorney General Mike Cox, who brought the assault charges.Kilpatrick -- whose new lawyers have been in talks since last week with Worthy's assistants -- is apparently willing to plead guilty to some of the eight felonies stemming from a police whistle-blower trial last year, but he does not want to return...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... provide a venue for an announcement of a plea deal. It would be likely to involve Attorney General Mike Cox, who brought the assault charges.Kilpatrick -- whose new lawyers have been in talks since last week with Worthy's assistants -- is apparently willing to plead guilty to some of the eight felonies stemming from a police whistle-blower trial last year, but he does not want to return...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... provide a venue for an announcement of a plea deal. It would be likely to involve Attorney General Mike Cox, who brought the assault charges.Kilpatrick -- whose new lawyers have been in talks since last week with Worthy's assistants -- is apparently willing to plead guilty to some of the eight felonies stemming from a police whistle-blower trial last year, but he does not want to return...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... has been rocky.The State Police and the attorney general began investigating Jones and Officer Mike Martin, another bodyguard in 2003, after a former member of the security team accused them of billing the city for overtime they did not work. The officer, Harold Nelthrope, also alleged that Jones and Martin covered up auto accidents they had in police vehicles.The Free Press reported in...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... Free Press exposed in January and two assault charges levied against the mayor by Attorney General Mike Cox. The mayor is charged with shoving a sheriff's deputy into his partner in July.Sources with knowledge of the plea negotiations have told the Free Press the mayor is willing to accept a felony conviction but does not want jail time. The mayor served a night in jail earlier this month...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
... pending criminal cases: an assault case, being prosecuted by the office of state Attorney General Mike Cox, and perjury and other felony charges stemming from Kilpatrick's testimony last summer in one of the whistle-blower cases and efforts to hide the text messages.The mayor is under enormous pressure to settle the criminal matters this week, a deal that would almost certainly call for...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
For six months, I've been sure that no Michigan politician ever had a lower opinion of the voting public than Kwame Kilpatrick does. But now state Attorney General Mike Cox is giving Detroit's cynical mayor a run for his money.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
... the courtroom, Baker, who is prosecuting the assault case on behalf of state Attorney General Mike Cox, said the only thing he has discussed with Kilpatrick's legal team is adjourning the bond hearing.In a separate case, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged the mayor with eight felonies, ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office and obstruction of justice, in the wake...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
... Mateo apologized. Prosecutor Douglas Baker, who is handling the case for Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, told Groner the lawyers weren't trying to decide the matter without his involvement.Still, Groner said "I'm shocked and surprised."Kilpatrick was not in court today. Groner said Mateo and Baker agreed before today's proceedings that the mayor need not be present.
