Deadline Detroit | In This Council Race, One Candidate Was Convicted of Domestic Violence; The Other Was Evicted From Lafayette Towers

Willie Burton and Renata Miller

In what’s likely to be a hotly contested Detroit City Council race in November, Chrysler retiree Renata Miller, 57, faces Detroit Police Commissioner Willie Burton, 46, in District 5, a seat currently held by mayoral candidate Mary Sheffield.

Detroit News reporters Louis Aguilar and Anne Snabes examine the two candidates troubles in the past.

In 2004, Miller was found guilty in Oakland County Circuit Court of domestic violence misdemeanor, The News reports. During a preliminary exam, a married man who was having an affair with Miller alleged that she assaulted him outside his Oak Park home in 2003, the day after he broke up with her.

She also allegedly smashed a car window with a tire iron and threatened him with it, the man testified. She was sentenced