City of Detroit objects to text messages in case

DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit has objected to the admissibility of 35 of 36 text messages from city-issued pagers that could be made available to an attorney representing the family of a slain exotic dancer.

In a court filing Friday, the city said the messages were irrelevant to the case brought by Tamara Greene’s family. A federal judge cleared the messages first for review by city lawyers then by attorney Norman Yatooma.

Greene’s family is suing the city, ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other officials. Yatooma claims they stifled a police investigation into her 2003 shooting death. The 27-year-old Greene is rumored to have danced at a never-proven wild party at the mayor’s official Manoogian Mansion residence a few months before she was killed.