Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday for a bond violation in his perjury case, his pleas for leniency rejected by a judge who made it clear the mayor would get no special treatment.
Kilpatrick, charged with perjury and other felonies over his testimony in a civil trial, apologized and acknowledged that he made a mistake when he visited Windsor, Ontario, minutes away from Detroit, for city business last month. But District Judge Ronald Giles was not moved, saying he needed to treat the mayor like any other defendant.
I guess he thought that the law only applied to common folks. It is nice to see our judicial proceess actually working to make justice equal. Although we all know there are always holes in the system. It is still nice to say for once that the law applies to others than just myself.
Hagins, Jonathan C.
POS1041
1135
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment