Troopers to answer questions in Greene Case

Michigan State Police will allow three officers to be deposed in the lawsuit brought by the family of slain stripper Tamara Greene, Inspector Greg Zarotney said Friday. Detective Lt. Curt Schram, Detective Sgt. John Figurski and Detective Sgt. Mark Krebs will allow attorney Norman Yatooma to question them, but some questions and documents cannot be answered or released, Zarotney said.

The officers “object to the production of any documents and to any questions to elicit testimony about documents, evidence and/or information obtained” during an investigation into former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick “in 2003 unrelated to the Tamara Greene homicide,” State Police said in court filings.

Greene, a stripper known as Strawberry, was shot in a drive-by killing April 30, 2003. Her slaying remains unsolved.

According to one version of a never-proved rumor, then-Mayor Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, assaulted Greene after she arrived home at the mayoral residence around Labor Day weekend 2002.
The lawsuit claims city officials conspired to thwart any investigation into her death.