The judge appeared to give no weight to Kilpatrick’s lengthy and emotional court oration, in which he apologized for his lies in the text-message scandal, but said he is a different and better person today.
As Kilpatrick spoke, the judge mostly looked at papers on his desk.
"Probation is no longer an option," Groner said when Kilpatrick had finished. "That ship has sailed."
Kilpatrick, the judge said, had shown a lack of candor, remorse, humility and forthrightness, during the course of the on-again, off-again restitution hearing, which plodded on for roughly a year.
In a trial where the race card was played with abandon, the facts spoke for themselves... Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath after-all... and it appears justice is being served. His spokesman likened the sentencing to "apartheid"- whatever
More today at the Detroit Free Press -here-