Schwartz said Kilpatrick had been singled out for special treatment, “and that's not the way this is supposed to work.”
He said he considered this a political case from the beginning. “They wanted to destroy this man … and that's what they did to him.”
Schwartz said the prosecutor's office was not interested in restitution, but aimed to “destroy one human being because they didn't like him.”
Schwartz acknowledged that Kilpatrick's lifestyle in Texas with the large house and large cars may have upset some people but said, “Listen, that is not a violation of probation.”
He also said he thought the judge had made up his mind.
Schwartz said Kilpatrick “was fully aware that this could happen.”
He said Kilpatrick's talk to the judge was his “sincere honest, feeling.”
Schwartz said that Kilpatrick was not shirking responsibilities. “He indicated it's his fault…these things happened due to his stupidity.”
Schwartz clarified that the stupidity concerned Kilpatrick's confusion about the probation rules, and not a willful desire to defy the court.
When he hired Kilpatrick, Peter Karmanos indicated he was giving him another chance.
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