Kwame Kilpatrick Goes to Jail

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is learning the hard way that laws and court rulings actually do apply, even to him. Judge Ronald Giles sent the gangsta' administrator to jail this morning for violating provisions of his bond that denied him travel out of the state without prior approval of the court. Kilpatrick, apparently a lawyer with no remedial training in geography, violated the terms by traveling to Windsor (the last time I checked out of city, state and country) for city business.

Prosecutors learned of the infraction through the media.

Said Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran,

"The defendant left the state of Michigan, left the country, without prior notice to the court. All you have to have him do is call me...he has my cell phone, he can call me anytime...we would never say the mayor of Detroit cannot travel for an emergency matter.

That is a flagrant violation of this court's order. At the very least we are going to ask the court to cut off all travel to the defendant...for business or personal, because he violated the very generous terms that this court has set up.

It's not serious to him that he's a criminal defendant."

Unless Kilpatrick posts the entire $75,000 bond himself or has the decision ordering him to jail overruled, Kwame will be spending the night at a location with no plush curtains or table dancers. At least none with shaved legs.

h/t Michelle Malkin