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Sorry Kwame: U.S. Supreme Court Passes on Hearing Appeal

June 27, 2016, 10:15 AM by  Allan Lengel

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Kwame Kilpatrick's travels through the federal court system came to an end on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment his request to appeal his conviction. 

A federal jury in 2013 convicted Kilpatrick, 46, of public corruption charges. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison and is currently serving his time in a federal prison in El Reno, Okla.

He appealed his case to U.S. Court of Appeals, which refused to overturn the conviction.

The odds were against the Supreme Court taking the case. It takes so few and usually looks to see if a case brings up new legal issues that need clarification.

One key issue of the appeal, his attorney Harold Gurewitz argued, was that the trial judge gave federal agents too much latitude by letting them interpret for jurors written communications involving Kilpatrick. 

 



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