DETROIT, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A lawyer who resigned from her position overseeing police reform in Detroit says her affair with then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was a "transgression."
The Detroit News obtained a transcript of a disciplinary hearing last month for Sheryl Robinson Wood. She agreed to accept censure for the affair.
"At the time I considered it, and since then, to be a moral transgression on my part," Wood said. "And, you know, something that I obviously greatly regret. … . I understand certainly now, and have come to understand, that it was also a violation of my duties as a lawyer."
In 2003, the Detroit Police settled a civil rights lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department that alleged brutal police conduct, illegal arrests and bad conditions in city jails. The settlement included the appointment of a monitor.
Wood stepped down from the job in 2009 after the FBI obtained e-mails between her and Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign from office in 2008 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice.
