Federal district court judge Gerald Rosen has dismissed a case brought by the family of Tamara Greene against the city of Detroit and former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Greene was killed in a shooting in Detroit back in 2003. Her family sued the city and Kilpatrick for sabotaging Tamara Greene's murder investigation.
There had been rumors that Greene danced at a party at the mayor's residence in 2002. It was never proven that the party happened.
More from the Detroit Free Press:
Schapka, the city lawyer on the case, had urged Rosen to dismiss the lawsuit, saying years of litigation, dozens of sworn depositions, 10,000 pages of Detroit police and fire documents and more than 11 million pages of police computer files dating from Greene’s death failed to substantiate the party rumor or prove that Kilpatrick or others obstructed Greene’s murder probe. Two federal magistrates waded through 626,638 text messages retrieved from city-issued pagers during the period surrounding the party and Greene’s death, but only 36 had any relevance to the lawsuit and none shed any light on the killing or the murder investigation, the city said.
