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Midnight Mike
2008-10-28, 05:48 PM
DETROIT (AP) - A judge has sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to 120 days in jail, nine months after a newspaper story about text messages ignited a scandal at City Hall. Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner ordered the sentence Tuesday afternoon and noted Kilpatrick would not be given an opportunity for early release.
The Democratic ex-mayor pleaded guilty last month to obstruction of justice, admitting he lied about an affair with his chief of staff while testifying in a civil lawsuit in 2007. He also pleaded no contest to assaulting a sheriff's detective.

The hearing was moved to a larger courtroom Tuesday to accommodate the news media and spectators.

The 38-year-old Kilpatrick left office Sept. 18 after nearly seven years as mayor.

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