Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick Enters Plea Deal; Will Resign, Serve 4 Months In Prison

September 4, 2008 11:25 a.m. EST

Detroit, MI (AHN) - Detroit's Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agreed on Thursday morning to step down and entered a guilty plea to a pair of felony obstruction of justice charges in a sex scandal.

Along with resigning from office, Kilpatrick will spend 120 days in a jail cell, then spend five years on probation and pay $1 million to the city of Detroit in restitution.

Kilpatrick had lied about an affair with an aid.

He grew up in Detroit and was elected mayor at age 32, becoming the city's youngest mayor when he was elected in 2001. Now he has the distinction of becoming the city's first sitting mayor to be convicted of a crime.

His critics think that power might have gone to Kilpatrick's head. The once-rising star in the Democratic Party once had a promising political future.