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Friday, April 26
Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was imprisoned yesterday for violating bond on charges related a text-message scandal, was booked again today on new, separate charges of assaulting a sherriff's deputy. Detroit journalists are wondering why Kilpatrick's Chicago-based attorney Dan Webb was nowhere to be seen in the legal fracas that ensued, although Webb maintains that Kilpatrick is still a client.