Kilpatrick will stand trial for alleged assault

Source: The Detroit News

DETROIT -- A Detroit judge bound Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over to Wayne County Circuit Court for trial on assault charges Friday after a preliminary examination that lasted more than five hours.

Judge Ronald Giles of the 36th District Court made the ruling shortly before 2:30 p.m., saying it was clear Kilpatrick knew the man who approached his sister's front door to serve a subpoena was a police officer and the contact between Kilpatrick and the officer was not accidental.

Friday's development adds to a long list of legal woes the mayor is facing. His next court date on the assault charges is Aug. 22.

Brian White, a Wayne County sheriff's detective assigned to the county prosecutor's office, and JoAnn Kinney, a former Detroit police officer working as an investigator for the county prosecutor, both testified at the preliminary examination that on July 24 Kilpatrick shoved White, knocking him into Kinney.

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Does anyone support him anymore?

He is tethered and can't go anywhere except for the three neighboring counties. And they don't want him at the convention anyway according to what I know.

WUOM (Universtiy of Michigan Public Radio) just made the announcement. Kwame said that he didn't want to be a distraction at the convention.

Thank God!

Ann Arbor-

I like how he is making the noble gesture to not go except if he isn't out of the tether he couldn't go anyway. Every morning in paper I am either greeted by his ugly face or his name. No one can know how depressing that is. He just needs to resign and disappear and take his buddies with him.