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Detroit Mayor Agrees To Plead Guilty

Mayor To Leave Office

Posted: 8:33 am MDT September 4, 2008Updated: 9:07 am MDT September 4, 2008

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick accepted a plea deal Thursday in his perjury case that will end his tenure as the city's mayor and send him to jail.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner presided over the court case where Kilpatrick said he agreed to plead guilty to two counts of felony, WDIV-TV in Detroit reported.

As part of the plea agreement, Kilpatrick must resign within 14 days, pay restitution of $1 million, spend four months in jail and refrain from running for public office for five years.

He will also have to hand over his law license and his pension.

Kilpatrick, 38, who is in his second four-year term as mayor, is charged with 10 felonies in two cases.

In the first case, he and Christine Beatty were charged with perjury, conspiracy, misconduct and obstruction of justice. They are accused of lying during the 2007 whistle-blowers' trial about having an extramarital affair and about their roles in the firing of a deputy police chief.

Text messages from Beatty's city-issued pager contradicted their testimony.

In the second case, Kilpatrick is charged with two counts of assault. He is accused of shoving a Wayne County detective into an investigator while they were trying to serve his friend a subpoena.

The Michigan Attorney General's plea deal offered to Kilpatrick in the assault charges expired Wednesday. The attorney general's deal included resignation and pleading guilty to one of the two assault charges against him.

Meanwhile, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm concluded the first day of a hearing that could oust Kilpatrick from office.

The hearing will resume Thursday, one hour after the conclusion of the expected plea deal hearing, said a Granholm spokeswoman.