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The circus Kilpatrick created because he wanted to lie, lie, and lie some more about his mistress weighed on the city for nearly a year. Kilpatrick is also serving a four-month jail sentence as part of his plea. See Full Coverage
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Do you think Beatty deserves to do time for lying, or does the punishment outweigh the crime?
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** FILE ** 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)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses the media during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a "no-confidence" vote. The council doesn't have the power to force Kilpatrick to step down. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses the media during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a "no-confidence" vote. The council doesn't have the power to force Kilpatrick to step down. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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** FILE ** Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox speaks during an interview in this April 11, 2005, file photo, in Lansing, Mich. Cox said Wednesday, March 12, 2008, that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should resign because he's a liar and a race-baiter "on par with David Duke and George Wallace," and no longer fit for office. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, file)
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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)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gives his seventh State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick points towards his family before the start of his seventh State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
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The parents and sister of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (L), Ayanna (C) and Bernard Kilpatrick stand before the start of Mayor Kilpatrick's State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
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DETROIT - MARCH 11: Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings says the Pledge of Alligiance before Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City address March 11, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Several members of the city council protested the Mayor by sitting in the audience instead of sitting on stage with the Mayor. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
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Protestors demonstrate outside of Orchestra Hall where Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was giving his State of the City address March 11, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Four members of the nine-member council declined to take their customary seats onstage with the mayor, who is in the midst of a text-messaging scandal involving charges of sexual misconduct and of perjury related to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by former police officers against the city. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY == (Photo credit should read BILL PUGLIANO/AFP/Getty Images)
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By: jazi on 12/02/2008 2:11PM
In the words of Robin Harris....."Gotta Go..Gotta Go!
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By: phineinphilly on 12/02/2008 2:15PM
In the words of Robin Harris....Gotta Go...Gotta Go!
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By: H. Martin on 12/02/2008 2:18PM
I think she should do the time for what she did, but I feel for her because she'll live with the shame for what...because in the end Kwame went back to his wife. I guess this is a lesson for all women to learn from that having a affair is just not worth it.
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By: Tonya on 12/02/2008 2:24PM
Unfortunately, lying is the easiest law to break, and lying while under oath is the easiest way to go to prison. You are already doomed if you are sitting in front of the Grand Jury. You are forced to disclose any and every question that is asked of you. You cannot plead any of the ammendments(like the 5th), that protects you from answering based on the probability of incrimination, and that is all you have. They were doomed from the start.
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By: Ellie on 12/02/2008 2:45PM
I hope it was all worth it for Kilpatrick and Beatty. They've destroyed themselves,embarassed and humiliated their families, ruined the lives of other people and for what? Now they can sit back now and wait for the civil suits that will take every penny that they don't have now and any that they might have in the future.
I hope that their spouses have taken the children and run. They don't have jobs, won't have any money and have shown a complete and utter disrespect for their spouses and marriages, so who needs them.
The courts were much too lenient on them. For the havoc that they wreaked on the city of Detroit, their punishment should have been much more severe.
If they had any character, and we now know that they don't, they would get as creative with bedsheets while in prison as they were with their lies. It would save everyone a lot of trouble.
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By: Deb on 12/02/2008 4:13PM
I think that she should do the time because what goes around comes around. She knew that this man was married in the first place and for her to lie on the witness stand took things to far so do the time.
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By: sherry dailey on 12/02/2008 5:10PM
"and they all fall down"
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By: Dre' Smith on 12/02/2008 6:09PM
Big BROTHER is alway's watching. Text Messages sent back in forth was not the crime, your AZZ can't go to jail for that. You may have a pizzed off Hubbie or Wifey. U can't lie under oath to a Grand Jury. That Shizzum will get u a 1000 years.
Should of just fessed up to the husband/wife and said yeah I was banging them.
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By: Fo sho on 12/04/2008 9:37AM
The tramp should do time, give her rusty azz 10 years........
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By: iamherenow on 12/04/2008 9:41AM
I believe they both got off way to easily. When I think back to her being questioned by the courts and her rolling her eyes and neck like "please", it just disgusts me. They were both so arrogant as they did their dirt to the City of Detroit as well as their families.
I hope they lose whatever civil trials are thrown at them because what they did to that city was a shame and I don't think it would be right for them to serve only 4 months of prison time and then be able to just go back to their regular lives. The city of Detroit is gonna be suffering from a long time because of their selfish indescretions...
P.s. Please tell me they'll be in the full population with the other CRIMINALS and not in solitary confinement just chilling...
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