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- Detroit General Counsel Says Mayor's Texts May Be Fakes
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Mar 26, 2008GeneralThe city of Detroit’s General Counsel says charges against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick might be thrown-out…because the evidence they are based on is flawed…and possibly fabricated.
WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter has more…
The Wayne County Prosecutor charged Kilpatrick with eight felony counts of perjury and obstruction of justice…for allegedly lying under oath about having an affair with his former Chief of Staff…and conspiring to fire policemen investigating them.
The prosecutor became involved after text messages surfaced that appear to have been sent between the Mayor and former top aide Christine Beatty.
But the Kilpatrick Administration’s General Counsel – Sharon McPhail – says there is no proof either Beatty or Kilpatrick actually sent the texts themselves.
“The alleged text messages. I’m sure you remember the Nixon tapes – whether or not they’re real…valid…altered – all of that. The whole issue of whether or not these tapes were illegally obtained…which I believe they were. There are going to be a number of challenges to just the use of that so-called evidence.”
McPhail predicts that the Wayne County Prosecutor will release even more text messages in an attempt – she says – to taint any potential jury pool.