The Detroit Free Press is reporting that its lawyer, Herschel Fink, filed a motion this week asking Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen to unseal some depositions in a lawsuit against the city of Detroit by the family of Tamara Greene, who was murdered in 2003. Her family claims that the city thwarted the investigation of the murder.
Among the depositions is that of state Attorney General Mike Cox; Fink said there is “no constitutional support for the court appointing itself as the gatekeeper for what the public should, and should not, know about what occurs in the people’s courts …”