Judge Jails Kwame Kilpatrick After Ordering Mayor & His Jumpoff To Proceed To Trial!!!

Detroit Continues To Be a Mess and Noone is Minding The Store!

Judge Ronald Giles of the 36th District court has granted a request by Kwame Kilpatrick's legal team to go directly to trial after Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran said he had no objection. Giles, however, later revoked hizzoner's bond and jailed the shady politico for violating the terms and conditions of his release.

Similiar to a trial, a preliminary examination usually is conducted so the prosecution can present at least some initial witnesses and evidence to a judge, who then decides whether there's enough to proceed to trial. Now those arguments are essentially moot and the case will go forward with a new judge to be determined by blind draw.

But problems continue to mount for America's embattled "hip hop mayor," now looking at new charges for assaulting a police officer trying to serve him with a subpoena, and because he traveled to Canada without first seeking permission from the court. Kwame Kilpatrick had previously agreed and accepted that he was not allow to leave the country. Being a lawyer, he should know better and Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, also African American, was not having it!!!

The timing could not be worse, although it comes on the heels of his mother, U.S. Rep Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick winning a hotly contested re-election bid.

In March, Worthy charged Kilpatrick with perjury, misconduct in office, obstruction of justice and conspiracy, eight felonies in all. The charges followed a Free Press investigation that revealed in January that the mayor and Beatty lied under oath during a whistle-blower trial about their sexual relationship while both were married, and then giving misleading testimony about the firing of a police official who knew about what was going down.

The newspaper later reported that the defiant brother brokered a secret settlement in the case by using $8.4 million of city money to hide his damaging text messages, in which the lies were revealed.

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THE R KELLY JURY DID WHAT???

Robert Kelly is one happy camper right about now, thanks to a Cook County jury who just acquitted the R&B pied-piper of child pornography charges. This marks the end of a high-profile trial chocked full of courtroom drama.

The 41-year-old superstar long denied charges that he videotaped himself engaging in a variety of sex acts with his then-underage goddaughter.

Authorities said the female in the video could have been as young as 13 at the time. The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for 7 ½ hours before finding Kelly not guilty on all 14 counts.

"R Kelly was found not guilty because they had the best jury that Cook County could produce," said Kelly's attorney Sam Adam Jr. "Two things happened today. R. Kelly got his name back and [his goddaughter] never had to lose hers," Adam said.

Prosecutors struck a somber note about a case that's lasted more than six years, using their statements to thank witnesses, profess faith in their case and acknowledge they had an uphill fight to prove it.

"As we must, we accept the verdict of the jury in this case," said Cook County State's Atty Richard Devine. "This prosecution is one we have no reservations about."

Shauna Boliker, the lead prosecutor in the case, reserved her comments to thanking witnesses who came forward. "It was a difficult thing for them to do, but they did it very eloquently and courageously," she said.

In the moments before the verdict was announced, Kelly could be seen praying in the courtroom. As the verdicts rolled in, each count not guilty, Adam said he heard Kelly saying, "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus."

Kelly left the courtroom surrounded by his entourage, who kept reporters away from the singer and escorted him to a waiting sport-utility vehicle as some 50 supporters shouted support to him.

Though Kelly did not speak to reporters, he did salute and wave to fans.

Allan Mayer, a Kelly spokesman, said, "Robert has asked me to speak on his behalf for now. Robert has said all along that he believes in our system, and he believes in God. And that when all the facts came out in court, he'd be cleared of these terrible charges.

"He did not expect that it would take 6 ½ years. It's been a terrible ordeal for him and his family, and at this point all he wants to do is move forward and try to put it behind him. He wants to thank his lawyers who defended him so brilliantly. He wants to thank his fans who stuck by him and supported him with such love.

"Most of all, he wants to thank God for giving him the strength to get through this. He's going to have more to say about all of this very soon. But for right now, he'd be more inclined to be with his family, collect himself and get strong again. But we'll be hearing from him soon about all of this.

"Again, he thanks everyone for their support, and he thanks our system of justice for seeing him through. And he thanks God for his strength and his love."

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Did R. Kelly Molest His Niece???

Got A feeling R. Kelly Isn't Doing a Lot Of Laughing Now

Things may begin to heat up and take a major turn in the long anticipated R Kelly trial. It seems his brother, Carey Kelly is scheduled to take the stand this week. While we can't be certain of exactly what Carey will say, here are some of the allegations Carey made against his brother in a recent DVD:

- R Kelly was both emotionally and physically abusive towards his ex-wife.
- R Kelly and his ex-wife had an off the wall sex life, that includes frequent ménage-a-trois...
- R Kelly has had a number of inappropriate relationships with underage women - including a sexual relationship with deceased singer/actress Aaliyah.
- R Kelly molested his own niece.
- R Kelly has engaged in numerous gay relationships and his hit song Trapped in the Closet is loosely based on R Kelly's life.

This scoop courtesy of MediaTakeOut.com