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Sg9018
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 10:54 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Kilpatrick fights disbarment
in the Detnews,
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20081111/M ETRO/811110390

and Free press,
http://www.freep.com/article/2 0081111/NEWS06/811110341
Kilpatrick attorneys are preparing an appeal they hope will allow him to keep his law license.
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Crumbled_pavement
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 1:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

He should have thought about all this when he was banging Beatty and firing police officers to cover it up....
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Chrissy_snow
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You can't appeal your own plea agreement - can you? After all, he even had plenty of time to think about it and he still signed and agreed. He needs to sit down and shut up now.
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Detroitbred
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You got that right! He'd be a lousy lawyer anyway!
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Detmsp
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 5:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

how can he fight against the plea agreement he signed?
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Mschievous
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 5:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sigh - he's NEVER gonna go away is he?
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Smogboy
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

When he signed this plea agreement, did anyone see any strong arm tactics being applied to him? Were there thugs on either side of him forcing him to sign? Did he not read it? Was there coercion going on here??

As far as I'm concerned, he signed it and should abide by it.
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Thames
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I thought a felony conviction meant automatic disbarment, so the loss of his law license was not part of the plea agreement, but rather a consequence of it.
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Mschievous
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How does he manage to find all these lawyers to work for him? I guess it IS all about the Benjamins, eh? He must have some serious cash stashed away somewhere.
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Bobl
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Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 6:06 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Better a slimy lawyer than a teacher of impressionable children.
This story will go on and on.
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Choquant
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Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 11:31 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I seriously don't understand why he would fight this. He would be disbarred anyway; the attorney grievances commission is very strict when it comes to offenses like this. He's just looking for another way to stay in the media's eye I guess.
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Smogboy
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Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 11:13 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"He's just looking for another way to stay in the media's eye I guess."

Puhleeze tell me he's not some 300 lb. version of Paris Hilton now.
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Crumbled_pavement
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Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 12:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

Originally posted by Smogboy:

Puhleeze tell me he's not some 300 lb. version of Paris Hilton now.



Quick, somebody photoshop this!
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Smogboy
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Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 1:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'd be honored if someone did, Crumbled_pavement!

Thanks for the call out!
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Sg9018
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Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 5:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Worthy: Kilpatrick may have violated plea agreement
By fighting the revocation of his law license.
More in the free Press,
http://www.freep.com/article/2 0081202/NEWS0101/81202083
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Lodgedodger
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Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 1:19 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Worthy: Kilpatrick broke deal

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20081203/M ETRO/812030372

Just more evidence ThugBoy wouldn't know the meaning of honor if he were handed a dictionary. He agreed to the plea agreement. Shameful.
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Chrissy_snow
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Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 4:03 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

All of this is only because Kwame doesn't fully understand agreements that don't include a cash payment to himself, thus, the agreement he signed in court wasn't clear to him. In contrast to every other contract he signed while in office, no one slipped him any money when it was done, so he doesn't even remember signing it!
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Mama_jackson
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Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 11:30 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So, if he wants to voilate the agreement, he should have more jail time tacked on. Like an amount of time closer to what he really deserves.
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Crumbled_pavement
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Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 12:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Kwame should be renamed to Can't Get Right. He just like that character in the movie Life. Kwame "Can't Get Right" Kilpatrick - that should be Kwame's new legal name.

From the article posted by Lodgedodger:
Kilpatrick could face a lengthened jail sentence if Groner is convinced that Kilpatrick's appeal to the state's Attorney Discipline Board was a willful violation of probation.

In the words of Monica Conyers, "DO IT BABY!"
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Mrsjdaniels
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Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 12:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

on to a trial - yay!

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