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Embattled mayor of Detroit steps down

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• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in Wayne County Circuit Court.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stands with attorney Gerald Evelyn and pleads guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. The mayor made the plea during a court hearing Thursday morning in a perjury and misconduct case. He later offered a no contest plea in an assault case.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Former mayoral top aide Christine Beatty reacts as she waits for her appearance before Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner. Attorneys asked for a week extention to her case. She and Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who pleaded guilty to felony charges are accused of lying under oath about an affair and their roles in the firing of a deputy police chief. Beatty did not plead guilty and next will appear in court on Sept. 11.
• June 30, 2008: Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr., yields the floor during a meeting in Detroit. Cockrel will succeed Kwame Kilpatrick as mayor until a special election is held. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty Sept. 4, 2008, to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listens to his attorney Juan Mateo in Wayne County District Court.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Carlita Kilpatrick watches as her husband, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, pleads guilty to felony obstruction of justice charges.
• Sept. 3, 2008: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm heads a public hearing in Detroit on Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's role in a $8.4 million settlement with fired police officers who sued the city. Council members say they didn't know the deal also covered up steamy text messages between Kilpatrick and his top aide.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick leaves court after pleading guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city.
• Sept. 2, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's monitoring tether is seen on his leg during a bond hearing in Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner's courtroom in Detroit.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stands with his attorney and pleads guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. The mayor made the plea during a court hearing Thursday morning in a perjury and misconduct case. He later offered a no contest plea in an assault case.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, center, leaves with his wife, Carlita, after pleading guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. The mayor made the plea during a court hearing Thursday morning in a perjury and misconduct case. He later offered a no contest plea in an assault case.
• Sept. 3, 2008: Attorney Michael Stefani, left, speaks with City Council attorney Bill Goodman during the State of Michigan Administrative Hearing for the Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in Detroit. The City Council is trying to have Kilpatrick removed, saying it was misled when it approved an $8.4 million settlement last year with fired police officers.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, stands left center, with his attorney Juan Mateo, center, and Doug Baker, a special prosecutor with the attorney general's office, in Wayne County Circuit Court.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm holds up the resignation letter from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as she officially suspends mayoral removal hearings at Cadillac Square in Detroit. Kilpatrick struck a plea deal Thursday that included his resignation.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Carlita Kilpatrick, center, wife of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, is escorted out of Frank Murphy Hall of Justice after Mayor Kilpatrick plead guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice by committing perjury.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick salutes onlookers as he leaves out the back entrance to Frank Murphy Hall of Justice after pleading guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice by committing perjury.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Kwame Kilpatrick sits in Wayne County Circuit Court.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Kwame Kilpatrick sits in Wayne County Circuit Court.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Kwame Kilpatrick sits in Wayne County Circuit Court.
• Sept. 4, 2008: Kwame Kilpatrick sits in Wayne County Circuit Court.
• Aug. 7, 2008: This photo, supplied by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, shows Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as he was booked following his jailing by a Detroit judge for violating the terms of his bond.
• Sept. 3, 2008: Mike Mulholland carries signs for his American Foundation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 207 in front of Detroit's Cadillac building where Michigan's Gov. Jennifer Granholm will hold a removal hearing against legally embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
• Sept. 3, 2008: Duane Montgomery, front center, of Detroit, was first in line for chance to view the hearing being held by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm regarding the removal of legally embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in Detroit.
• Sept. 3, 2008: A security vehicle blocks an entrance to the Manoogian Mansion, the Detroit mayor's home. Prosecutors accusing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of lying on the witness stand to cover up an extramarital affair with a top aide said Wednesday that a plea deal is expected soon in the case.
• Sept. 2, 2008: Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Ziolkowski is seen on the bench in Detroit. Ziolkowski refused to interfere with a hearing that could force Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office, a decision that puts Gov. Jennifer Granholm in control of his political fate and further pressures him to settle two criminal cases. The judge rejected arguments that Granholm is biased and that Michigan law is vague about the definition of misconduct.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick attends a hearing in 36th District Court in Detroit, Mich.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick attends a hearing in 36th District Court in Detroit, Mich.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is escorted out of court by court officers after a hearing in 36th District Court in Detroit, Mich.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Judge Ronald Giles listens to attorneys during a hearing for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in 36th District Court in Detroit, Mich.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty, the mayor's former Chief of Staff attend a hearing in 36th District Court in Detroit, Mich.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listens as Judge Ronald Giles orders him to the Wayne County jail for violating the terms of his bond.
• Aug. 7, 2008: Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans talks with reporters about Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick outside the Wayne County Jail.