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B.i.g Case Thrown Out.
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 Coolness: 151180 | Notorious B.I.G. Lawsuit Thrown Out Of Court At Family's Request 07/07/2005 4:30:00 PM
(ChartAttack) A mistrial has been declared in Notorious B.I.G.'s wrongful-death lawsuit, on claims of a witness deliberately withholding information. The rapper's family is expected to file a new lawsuit. After a media frenzy, claims of crooked cops and a mere three days of testimony, it's back to the beginning for the family of murdered rapper Notorious B.I.G. Ending speculation that began earlier this week, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial in the civil case after claims that the L.A.P.D. deliberately withheld information pertaining to the case. It is expected that the rapper's mother and widow — R&B singer Faith Evans — will file a new lawsuit attempting to convince the court of a connection between his death and an L.A.P.D. corruption scandal. The prior lawsuit was filed against the city of Los Angeles and its police department. It claimed that Death Row Records boss Suge Knight arranged for L.A.P.D. officer David Mack to kill New York-based B.I.G., which the L.A.P.D. then covered up. The family alleges B.I.G.'s 1997 murder, as yet unsolved, was ordered in retaliation for the killing of California-based rapper Tupac Shakur. B.I.G.'s family will refile their lawsuit with new allegations against Mack's former partner, Rafael Perez. The withheld information dealt with Detective Steven Katz's notes detailing Perez's alleged job as a security officer for Death Row Records on the night B.I.G. was killed. Perez had been working for the L.A.P.D.'s Rampart division, devoted to the reduction of gang violence, for nine years when he was arrested in 1998. He allegedly stole six pounds of cocaine from an evidence room. To gain partial immunity from prosecution the next year, Perez accused about 70 Rampart officers of abuse and misconduct while on the job. B.I.G. family attorney Perry Sanders Jr. told the Associated Press that the new lawsuit will "get to the bottom of Rampart. We're about to peel the onion back to its rotten core." Sanders said B.I.G.'s family didn't want to go through another trial but were prepared to do so anyway. B.I.G. was killed in L.A. in March '97 and Tupac's murder occurred six months earlier in Las Vegas, where he had been watching a Mike Tyson boxing match. Both were shot multiple times while sitting in the front passenger seats of their vehicles. Both murders remain unsolved. —Angela Kozak |
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