Posted on 03/23/2008 1:06:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
DETROIT - A prosecutor poised to reveal the results of her probe into whether Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide committed perjury or other crimes insists her own re-election bid did not affect the investigation.
On Monday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy will put an end to two months of speculation when she announces what she found in her independent review of a text-messaging sex scandal that has consumed the city.
"We're not the ones that created this scenario," Worthy said Friday. "We are the ones who simply want to do the right thing and do a thorough job."
She wouldn't give any hint of what, if any, charges would be filed against the mayor and ex-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.
Despite the wide interest in the case and its potential effect on Kilpatrick's career, Worthy doesn't consider this the toughest assignment she's had.
As an assistant prosecutor, Worthy, who is black, prosecuted two white police officers in the 1992 beating death of a black motorist. She won second-degree murder convictions against the officers.
"I still say that is probably the largest because of the significance and the timing of that case," she said. "It gave people a newfound belief in the criminal justice system."
Worthy says she and her staff have pored over more than 40,000 pages of documents since January, when the Detroit Free Press published excerpts of sexually explicit text messages sent to Beatty's city-issued pager in 2002 and 2003.
The messages contradict statements Kilpatrick and Beatty gave under oath during a whistleblowers' trial last summer when each denied a romantic relationship.
"There is nothing happy about this situation," Worthy said. "Something like this is just not good for anyone. It's tragic for the city, whether we charge or not. What happens in this city, county and region is very important to me.
"At the same time, it's still not going to stop me from doing what I think is the right thing to do."
Worthy started as a contract worker in the prosecutor's office before being hired in 1986. She then had a nine-year career as a judge before being appointed the county's first black and first female prosecutor in January 2004 when then-Prosecutor Mike Duggan resigned. She ran unopposed for the position later that year.
This is a re-election year, and Worthy says she understands that a decision to prosecute or not prosecute Kilpatrick will open her to criticism.
"The fact that I happen to have a political campaign this year is completely different and has nothing to do with this particular investigation," she said. "If this investigation had come along last year or the year before, or would come along next year after the election is over, we would handle it the same way.
"Political considerations have no place in the investigation, at all. When you start playing politics, and politics enters your decision-making, you become ineffective."
Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy addresses the media in her office in Detroit, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. The investigation into whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide committed perjury or other crimes during testimony in a highly publicized whistle-blowers' trial is all part of the job for the Wayne County prosecutor. And she doesn't even consider it the toughest assignment she's had since she's been in the prosecutor's office. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)
TICK-TICK-TICK-TI.......
As always, Thanks to the ‘keyworders’ at FR and HaPPy EasTer to All!!!
Perjury wasn’t the worst thing these racists would do.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gives his State of the City address in Detroit, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. A prosecutor says she will announce in two weeks whether she will file perjury charges against the mayor and his former top aide. The case stems from a criminal probe of whether Kilpatrick lied under oath when he denied an affair with former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty that was revealed in the text messages. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Hoping by this time tomorrow it is being pursued and that this thug and his cronies are on the way out.
What is your opinion? Is she going to get after the king of hip hop mayors? Or is there something going on we can’t see.
I am not sure of the political angle re the DA, can only remote view into this like anyone else ;-)
fwiw, I subscribe to how can the DA do justice here and also springboard herself up the ladder a few rungs, this would clearly send a message to other riff raff rap happy in office and is she taking into account the city wants him kicked to the curb,, muoy pronto.. does she have any ambitions? in this case, I sure hope so. ;-)
I expect her to do just fine, issue multiple charges and prosecute him to the hilt.. and offer a plea bargain , once.
Will never be convicted,even if charged and I doubt that he will be charged.
Worthy was relentless when she prosecuted the two policemen who were convicted of attacking Malice Green...maybe in ‘92? Since this was right after Rodney King, the verdict, in my opinion, was inevitable. Still, she never let up. She’s been on CourtTV, she’s all over the place.
I think she’s getting ready for an elective office—a big one.
The fact that she mentions her own re-election means she will not diligently pursue any charges against him. She's another political hack, just like the mayor and his extended family entrenched all through city government. The City of Detroit is the city's largest employer, with the Detroit Medical Center, now run by Wayne County democRAT hacks, the next largest. Nothing can be allowed to rock those boats.
I could see federal charges against Kwame, such as denial of civil rights under color of law, or something involving interstate wire transactions, but the feds know enough not to touch the guy. Worthy will probably say the evidence isn't "compelling" enough to convince a jury of his peers (nobody would dare move the trial out of Detroit) of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Nightline did a feature on this story. They interviewed 2 black police officers who blew the whistle on the crooked mayor. One of them said he doesn’t go into the city of Detroit any more for fear of reprisal.
This country is starting to resemble a third world banana republic in some areas. Where is justice?
Until then, reflect upon a statement given some time ago by another mayor with a large capital D following his name:
The b*tch set me up!"
-Marion Barry, D
My God, she’s gotten fatter.
That's the root of the problem. There is a dead hooker involved, and indications she may have been killed by a cop on Kwame's bodyguard detail. All the firings, perjury, and payoffs are covering something much darker.
Murder-to-avoid-embarrassment is even juicier than sex-lies-and-taxpayer-money. It's also the one thing that Kwame might not walk away from. Everything else could be considered a career enhancement for a RAT.
Neither conviction stuck. They were both eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
What a travesty. I’d never even heard of this case before.
They showed the jury the movie MALCOLM X repeatedly during their deliberations? And told them that they were preparing for riots if they didn’t convict?
And men spent time in jail on this?
We give millions to Goddamned crooks who happen to be innocent (or at least not verifiably guility) of some crime, but these men get harassed by that?
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