Judge allows lawyer in stripper suit more time for deposition
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a lawyer in the Tamara Greene case three more hours to continue deposing a former Detroit police homicide sergeant.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen agreed to extend the deposition of retired Sgt. Odell Godbold. He had already answered questions for seven hours.
Attorneys representing the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene has asked for the extra time.
Greene, a stripper linked to a rumored party at the Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and top city and police officials, alleging they obstructed the investigation of her still unsolved murder for political reasons.
The defendants deny the allegations.
Godbold, who is separately suing the city in Wayne Circuit Court, filed an affidavit in the Greene case saying he got in trouble over his investigation of the Greene case while it was assigned to the cold case squad, which he supervised. He testified he was scolded for showing the Greene file to officers from the major crimes bureau who had requested to see it.
Defense attorneys consumed over five hours of the initial deposition and Greene’s attorneys got only about 90 minutes. Rosen said they can get three more hours while defense attorneys get an additional hour.
