Ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick released from state prison

[The Northerner]

(CNN) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick walked out of prison a free man on Tuesday after serving just over 14 months of a 5-year sentence at a state facility in Jackson, Michigan.

Kilpatrick had been serving time for violating probation related to a 2008 case against him.

The former mayor walked out of the prison and got into a waiting SUV early on Tuesday. He was given "a small amount of cash from the cashier's office" upon his release, said John Cordell, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Kilpatrick was expected to board a flight to Dallas, where he was to be reunited with his family. He is to check in with a Texas parole officer on his arrival, and he must serve two years of parole, Cordell said.

The former mayor pleaded guilty in September 2008 to two felony counts of obstruction of justice stemming from his efforts to cover up an extramarital affair. He also pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a police officer who was attempting to serve a subpoena on a Kilpatrick friend in that case.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/02/michigan.kilpatrick.release/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. has he learned his lesson? n/t