Motion for a Continuance

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Includes Correspondence from Winters to Reid.

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- Criminal Justice
Topic
- Police Accountability
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organization
- LDF
Matter
- Garner v. Memphis Police Department
Case
- Garner v. Memphis Police Department
U.S. state
- Tennessee
Collection
- Case Files
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- d51e67dd-26a8-f011-bbd3-000d3a53d084

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Case Files, Garner Hardbacks. Motion for a Continuance, 1979. d51e67dd-26a8-f011-bbd3-000d3a53d084. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3dc703ad-2615-4e77-80ce-f17c4c7992b7/motion-for-a-continuance. Accessed February 12, 2026.

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October 22, 1979

Hon. J. Franklin Reid
Clerk, U.S. District Court

for the Western District of
Tennessee, Western Division

950 Federal Building
Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Re: Garner v. Memphis Police Department
____________Civ. No. C-75-145___________

Dear Sir:
Please find enclosed the original and one copy of
Plaintiff's Motion for a Continuance in the above
noted case together with two (2) copies of a letter
to the Hon. Harry W. Wellford. Please file these
in accordance with the local rules.
Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Steven L. Winter
cc: Walter L. Bailey, Jr., Esq.

Henry L. Klein, Esq.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE

WESTERN DIVISION

CLEAMTEE GARNER, Father and next of kin
of EDWARD EUGENE GARNER, a deceased
minor.

Plaintiff,

MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT; CITY OF
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE; WYETH CHANDLER,
Mayor of Memphis, and JAY W. HUBBARD,
Director or Memphis Police,

Defendants.

Civil Action No,
C-75-145

MOTION FOR A CONTINUANCE

In its order of October 15, 1979, this Court set an oral
hearing in the above cause on the issue of whether further
hearings and trial are necessary. Plaintiff respectfully requests
a continuance. Plaintiff's counsel has a conflict on the date
set by the Court, having already accepted a request to serve as
faculty at a lawyer training institute in New York on Thursday,
November29 and 30, 1979.

Accordingly, Plaintiff respectfully requests the Court to
grant a continuance and reset the date for the oral hearing.
Plaintiff's counsel will be available any Friday in December
so that the hearing may be scheduled at the Court's convenience.

Respectfully submitted.

Steven L. Winter
Suite 2030
10 Columbus Circle
New York, New York 10019

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Motion for
A Continuance has been served by posting same in the United
States Mail, postage prepaid, on Henry L. Klein, Esq., Suite
3500, 100 North Main Building, Memphis, Tennessee 38103.
This ______ ̂ day of October, 1979.

Steven L. Winter

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Motion for a Continuance

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