It looks as though Bernie Ward will be changing his “Not Guilty” plea to something else tomorrow. As I asked in my January 28, 2008 post, “Do I smell a Plea?” When the evidence mounts up against you, you need to take a realistic look and accept the consequences for your actions.
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Late Tuesday, Kilpatrick defended himself at an east-side meeting to promote his budget plan with city residents.
“It’s unfortunate that in Detroit only, you’re guilty till proven innocent,” he told the group of about 100. “There’s a lot of bad information being presented in front of you, and hopefully by the end of this, we’ll all see things pretty clearly.”
Afterward, he told reporters: “I don’t think that, at all, this is a smoking gun that everybody thought it would be.”
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