Los Angeles authorities have agreed to pay late rap star Notorious BIG’s family $1.1m (£632,000) for errors made during his wrongful death trial.
Lawyers have said that an appeal to overturn a judge’s order to pay compensation was now unlikely.

LA police were found to have withheld relevant documents during a civil case last year and a mistrial was declared.

The investigation into the rap star’s shooting in 1997 has been reopened with a new team of detectives.

Notorious BIG – whose real name was Christopher Wallace – was killed on a street in March 1997, after seven shots were fired into his vehicle. The shooting took place after the Soul Train Awards.

Notorious BIG’s family say they will go ahead with a retrial of their wrongful death case, alleging a police officer was involved in the shooting.
bbc.co.uk

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