Kim Worthy's Prosecution of Mayor KK

Kym Worthy deliberately and meticulously researched this case before making her charges. She has thoroughly studied this issue and has now made her charges against Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty. She has charged them with lying under oath. For lying under oath they have committed perjury, and now if convicted will face probable jail time.

Kym Worthy's makes her message perfectly clear, that, besides charging Kwame with perjury, she will not tolerate lying under oath, and she fully intends to charge Kwame and not settle out of court with his lawyers. She carefully planned out this speech to show that she was not making groundless charges, and that in her process of researching the city has fought her and Kwame's
lawyers have fought her and documents that would help her case have been misplaced, hid or destroyed. She shows that no shortcuts were taken and that an entire team of prosecutors have worked together on this case to get accurate results.

Throughout her speech Kym Worthy uses logos to strengthen her implicit message of her intolerance of perjury, because without truth our whole justice system collapses. She specifically appeals to the people of the City of Detroit using appeal to logic by using facts and stating the due process she has followed. She also tells why these charges have to be made. In her address to the City of Detroit, Kym Worthy explains why it has taken so long to make her charges. She wisely shifts the blame to the mayor by blaming his offices for city lawyers blocking the investigation. She also points out that "some of the documents have been turned over, but we have been told that others have been destroyed or lost. We don’t know when or by whom." Worthy also says that her team, and herself have gone through 40,000 pages of paperwork before making her charges. By telling the process she has used to obtain information and form her charges, she uses logos to support her argument. Other processes she has followed, include forming a team of six prosecutors, with many years of experience, to support her in this case. She also states that they "had to file Motions to Compel Production of Records; we have had to appear in Circuit Court, respond in the Court of Appeals, and last Friday we had to file paperwork in the Michigan Supreme Court in an attempt to fight to get documents that we subpoenaed on January 31st that still have not been turned over." Kym Worthy make sure she emphasized the importance of truth in the justice system in her speech. She says that oaths matter and that oaths are the basis for many events in this country. She also gives the fundamentals of what the jury system is based on (few of which Kwame has kept):

Tell the truth
Take responsibility for your actions
Admit when you are wrong
Be fair and play fair
Don’t take or use things that aren’t yours
There are consequences for bad behavior

These simple rules show to the City of Detroit that Kwame has broken the rules that govern this country and he needs to be punished. She also makes it clear she believes that Kwame should get no special treatment because as in the quote she uses: no one is above the law and no one is below it.

Through all these examples, Kym Worthy uses logos to strengthen her reasons for charging Kwame. She uses simple but effective examples to suppport her reasons for charging Kwame by appealing to the peoples logic.