The family of the late B.I.G. was awarded US$1 million by the city of LA, after the city's police department was found guilty of withholding evidence
- Jan 24, 2006
AceShowbiz - The family of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. are celebrating after a Los Angeles federal judge ordered the city to pay $1.1 million to them as sanctions for intentionally withholding evidence during the family's civil lawsuit trial.
United States District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial in the civil case last summer, after ruling that Los Angeles Police Department detective Steven Katz had withheld statements linking former LAPD officers David Mack and Rafael Perez to the rapper's still unsolved 1997 slaying.
At last Cooper concluded the "overlooked" information as important that it could help the family prove important evidence in the murder case of B.I.G. And so a retrial is scheduled for later this year.
