Update: Monday, 9:20 a.m. -- U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds has begun reading instructions for the jury before it begins deliberations. That may take about two hours. Before she began reading the instructions, she complimented the jury for being so conscientious and never calling in sick since the trial began in September. "You have been an extraordinary jury," she said.
Update: 11 a.m. -- The judge finished reading the instructions and recessed until 12:30 p.m. After the long lunch break, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Bullotta will deliver closing arguments, which should take about 2 1/2 hours. On Tuesday, the defense will begin delivering arguments on Tuesday.A.L.
After five months of testimony -- 80 government witnesses, bank checks, text messages, secret video and voice recordings -- jurors soon will weigh in on government allegations that Kwame Kilpatrick, Bernard Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson ran a criminal enterprise through the mayor's office to enrich themselves.
Tresa Baldas and Jim Schaefer in the Free Press write the government will present closing arguments in U.S. District Court on Monday, summing up months of testimony in one of the most historic public corruption trials in Detroit.
The prosecution will go a chapter at a time and try to persuade the jury that a group it has dubbed the "Kilpatrick Enterprise" ran a racket out of the mayor's office for years.
