- Posted January 18, 2013
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Cop in probe of stripper's death can sue bosses
DETROIT (AP) -- A former Detroit police officer who claims his career was harmed because he was investigating the death of a stripper will get a chance to press his case in court.
The Michigan appeals court says high-ranking officers are not immune to the lawsuit. The decision means Odell Godbold's case stays alive in Wayne County Circuit Court.
Godbold says bosses interfered in the investigation of the fatal shooting of Tamara Greene. He says they demoted him, closed the cold-case unit and then reopened it after Godbold felt induced to retire.
Greene was killed in 2003 while sitting in a car. Greene's family claims then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and police thwarted an investigation of her death. He denies it, and a judge in 2011 threw out a lawsuit against Kilpatrick.
Published: Fri, Jan 18, 2013
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