M.L. ELRICK, Detroit Free Press - Wayne County Circuit Judge Thomas Jackson just ruled that a lower court judge did not abuse his discretion in sending Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail, meaning the mayor will remain behind bars. Jackson’s decision came moments after prosecutors arguing to keep Kilpatrick behind bars for violating his bond just told [...]
Justice Thomas wrote a brief concurrence in Giles expressing the view that the statement at issue – made by the victim to a responding officer after an alleged assault – was not testimonial in nature. He regarded it as indistinguishable from the statement made to a responding officer in Hammon v. Indiana . I believe he is right that they are materially indistinguishable; of course, I think that the...
A prosecutor on Monday accused Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of violating his bond in an assault case by spending time over the weekend with his sister, one of 11 witnesses listed by authorities. Kilpatrick and Ayanna Kilpatrick were together at their mother’s house Saturday, a day after he was released from jail for violating bond in a [...]
An Obambi superdelegate goes to jail: Judge Ronald Giles sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to Wayne County Jail for failing to notify the court of his trip to Canada and violating the terms of his bond. Despite Kilpatrick’s humble apologies...
Detroit mayor charged with 2 felony assault counts Moments after a judge ruled that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be released from jail if he pays a $50,000 bond, Michigan’s attorney general announced he was charging the mayor with two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff’s detective. The detective accused the mayor [...]
sometimes you gotta wonder bout what type of people elected THIS clown. ---- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/us/09detroit.html'ref=us Detroit Mayor Charged With Assaulting Officer By NICK BUNKLEY Published: August 8, 2008 DETROIT Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, already fighting eight felony charges including perjury, was charged Friday with two felony counts of assaulting or obstructing a police officer....
Detroit's mayor was ordered jailed on Thursday for violating travel restrictions imposed on him while he awaits trial on perjury and official misconduct charges....
COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE, Associated Press - A judge ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his bond in his perjury case, a decision the judge said he would have made for any “John Six-Pack” defendant. The mayor made an unauthorized trip to Canada last month, leading the county prosecutor’s office [...]
From the Detroit News: A judge on Thursday ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail, shocking the city and plunging the leadership of the nation’s 11th-largest city into uncertainty. Despite a plea from Kilpatrick that invoked his sons, his respect for the judicial process and his love of the city, 36th District Judge Ronald Giles was unmoved. He [...]
Dice Productions have made a new film which stars Mr Thomas Reid as Giles Quinton, a man who has left his worldly possessions to live outside with nature. Our reporter (Ian Ravenscroft) went to meet him to see his new life outdoors If you like it then don’t forget to tell them so on the Dice Productions [...]
I am very fond of short stories. I read a lot of them. Most of the time they are pleasant reads. Some of them have intriguing ideas or plots. Some of them are not interesting. What I hope to find in a short story is the numinous. I want to set it down at completion and [...]
I can’t be the only one scratching my head at the Conservative Party’s summer holiday reading list. It’s week 2 of silly season, I grant you, and journalists will take pretty much anything on offer, but this just smacks of column filling (that said perhaps some of the larger tomes will act as wind breakers [...]
Took a break from blogging, will ease back in now. The Raptors announced their initial summer league roster on Monday and the only guy on there that makes you shake your head go tsk tsk is Joey Graham. After three years of NBA ball the need for summer camp still exists for Joey [...]
