DETROIT, Mich. -- Former Detroit Police Chief Jerry Oliver is on the witness stand at the Detroit Whistleblower trial. Oliver is testifying for the defense.

He answered questions about his role in the controversy surrounding Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Oliver said Harold Brown did not follow proper procedures.

When asked if he heard about the alleged party at the Manoogian Mansion.

He answered, "I heard that rumor. Almost from the beginning. Beginning time I arrived in Detroit."

He also said he never investigated the rumors.

Oliver said he was called to a meeting with the Mayor and was ordered to fire Brown.

He said at first he did not agree with the Mayor's orders until he was given documents showing Brown was investigating Kilpatrick without Oliver's knowledge.

Earlier this morning Psychiatrist Gerald Shiener, who examines officers for the Police Department, said officer Harold Nelthrope was exaggerating his claims of stress in asking for a duty related disability. Nelthrope says his efforts to investigate the mayor effectively cost him his job.

Judge Michael Callahan will not call Republican Attorney General Mike Cox to testify, despite earlier mentions. Callahan ruled that Cox’s investigation on the infamous wild Manoogian Mansion parties was nothing more than an urban legend.

The defense continued its case in the whistle-blower lawsuit against Kilpatrick and the city on Wednesday by expounding upon previous allegations set against them.

The lawsuit was brought by Nelthrope and Brown. The men sued Kilpatrick and the city in 2003, claiming their whistle-blower rights were violated.

Kilpatrick's former bodyguard and driver, Nelthrope, claimed under oath that he witnessed the mayor meet a "Jamaican woman" outside the Mr. G's Polo Salon at the corner of Leslie and Livernois in Detroit in the summer of 2002.

Nelthrope said the mayor took the woman into the shop and then into a back room for 20 to 25 minutes while he and another bodyguard, former officer Walter Harris, stood guard outside the door.

Harris later testified to that same event, adding that the mayor kissed the Jamaican woman "square on the lips" in a non-platonic way prior to entering the barbershop.

Both Nelthrope and Harris testified that they were taken aback by the mayor's behavior and even noticed the mayor's wife, Carlita, drive by the shop during the mentioned meeting.

At the time, the mayor frequently used the barbershop that was only a few blocks from his house.

The mayor's attorney, Sam McCargo, called Kenneth Wallace to the stand. He had worked as a barber at the barbershop during the time in question.

Wallace testified that the mayor routinely visited the barbershop during the daytime for haircuts. But Wallace also said that the mayor asked twice for special nighttime haircuts that required the barbershop to stay open late.

Wallace said the first time was the inaugural in 2002, and a second time in July 2002.

Wallace testified that on the night in question the mayor arrived with only his two bodyguards and there was no woman with them.

Wallace said he could not remember if Nelthrope was there that time. Wallace said he was sure that the mayor simply received his haircut and left.

The second defense witness to the stand was late and Callahan excused the jury until 9 a.m.

At 9 a.m., testimony continued with the former Detroit Personnel Director Lenise Bryant-Weeks.

The defense asked Bryant-Weeks about Brown's departure from the police force after the mayor removed him as deputy chief.

An important point in the defense's case is "Reversion Rights," a system within the police department where a high-ranking officer, if removed from office, can revert back to the rank of lieutenant and continue working at lower pay.

The defense maintains that Brown was not fired from the force but merely demoted and therefore cannot claim a firing without cause.

Bryant-Weeks testified that Brown clearly understood his reversion rights because they were discussed several times. Brown decided to retire from the police force rather than accept the demotion, Bryant-Weeks said.

Bryant-Weeks also said that while Brown could have been forced to retire at the rank of lieutenant, the mayor allowed Brown to retire at the rank of deputy chief.

Brown testified earlier in the lawsuit that he was issued a box, had his security card taken from him and was told to empty his desk. He was then escorted from the police department and "un-appointed" by the mayor.

Brown testified that he felt fired at the time.

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