It wasn’t a pardon. He still has the multiple convictions on his record. The sentence was commuted to time served.
The local news covered those hearings. The same judge that presided over the trial was hearing all Kilpatrick’s whining. I could tell from the judge’s body language that he was soooo tired of Kilpatrick’s shucking and jiving.
For a while, Kilpatrick was in the Federal jug in Milan, MI, which is right next to US23. As I was driving past, on my way to my aunt’s, I would laff in his direction and say “don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time, you sack of slime”.
Steve