The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B. I. G. Those who arrived as spectators at the Federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on July 6th expecting to observe the fourth day of testimony in the Notorious B. I. G. wrongful death suit swiftly discovered that they were on hand to bear witness to something else history. In an announcement that stunned everyone who had been following the case in the media, presiding judge Florence Marie Cooper abruptly suspended the proceedings and called a mistrial. Only a handful in the courtroom knew of the remarkable events of the previous days an anonymous late night phone tip the extraordinary lockdown of a Los Angeles Police Department division a stash of secret, incriminating documents. But the following day, Judge Cooper issued a written ruling stating that she had come to believe the LAPD had deliberately concealed a massive amount of evidence that attested to the involvement of rogue officers in the rappers slaying. L. A. Times Responds to Biggie Story. The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B. I. G. A Special Report Did the LAPD suppress evidence that rogue cops conspired with Death Rows Suge Knight to assassinate. Unlimited free The Notorious B. I. G. music Click to play Juicy, Hypnotize and whatever else you want Christopher George Latore Wallace May 21, 1972 March 9. Sean Diddy Combs made a surprise appearance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on what would have been The Notorious B. I. G. s 45th birthday to pay tribute to the. On what would have been his 45th birthday, Notorious B. I. G. was honored at the Billboard Music Awards. Hip hop music, also called hiphop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by innercity African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a. Russell Poole, the former LAPD detective who was the main investigator in Notorious B. I. Gs murder, passed away. Bad Boy OVO Diddys back with new music. Taking over OVO Sound Radio today, Puff premiered his new record with Rozay featuring B. I. G. s Youll Sees. The implications of the judges decision extended far beyond the mystery of B. I. G. s unsolved murder. For months, Los Angeles most prominent political figures and police officials, along with the citys most influential media, had been insisting that this legal claim by B. I. G. s family was nothing more than a nuisance suit, based on an outlandish conspiracy theory that attempted to tie a group of LAPD officers affiliated with Suge Knights Death Row Records and the Bloods gang to not only the murders of B. B.I.G Music' title='B.I.G Music' />I. G. and Tupac Shakur, but also to the origins of the biggest police corruption case in Los Angeles history, the so called Rampart scandal. Yet here was one of the most respected district court judges in Southern California declaring in open court that the LAPDs lead investigator on the B. I. G. murder case for the past six years had deliberately concealed hundreds of pages of documents. The contents of these pages not only supported the conspiracy theory, but also implicated the central figure in the Rampart scandal the disgraced detective who was the source of the whole sorry, sordid affair as one of those involved in the rappers death. The judges declaration of a mistrial provided one of those breathtaking moments when the facade of a Big Lie is peeled back to reveal the men behind the curtain. Suddenly, the central figures in this scandal were not the collection of corrupt police officers whose double faced criminality has been the focus of both public and private investigations, but rather the people who hold the levers of control at the citys most powerful institutions. Rolling Stones 1. Greatest Album of All Time Ready to Die by The Notorious B. I. G. Back in 2. 00. But in the spring of 2. L. A. media were explored by articles in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. Perry Sanders, the iconoclastic lawyer who would spearhead the wrongful death lawsuit, first became involved in the case in June of that year. An attorney for murdered rap star Notorious B. I. G., a. k. a. Christopher Wallace, asked Sanders to read the Rolling Stone article. I thought there were grounds for filing a lawsuit just based on reading the story, says Sanders. Because he takes cases only on contingency, however, the attorney had to decide whether he could justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and several years of his life to sustain a federal court claim against the city of Los Angeles. Notorious B. I. G. Killed in Los Angeles. Angular and fit, the fifty one year old Sanders is a mercurial Louisianan whose shaved head and pale eyes give him the look of a more intelligent Bruce Willis. The son of Perry R. Winzip Win7. Sanders Sr., one of the Souths best known Baptist ministers, the attorney had devoted much of his young adulthood to the music business he performed as a guitarist and vocalist all across the Southern club circuit during his years in college and law school. By the time he passed the bar in 1. Sanders co owned the Baton Rouge recording studio Disk Productions, where he and two partners composed and recorded jingles for companies including Hilton and Honda. Within a few years, Sanders moved on to Nashville, working in entertainment law by day and as a writer and producer at night, then to L. A., where he was a partner in the studio West Side Sound. Eventually, he returned to Louisiana and the practice of law, specializing in environmental and civil rights cases. He made enough money by his mid forties that he could devote his considerable energies to whatever interested him. The B. I. G. case interested me plenty, Sanders says, but he and his sometime associate, Colorado attorney Rob Frank, were at that moment embroiled in a massive environmental suit against the Schlage Lock Company. Not sure if he could afford what the B. I. G. lawsuit would demand, Sanders dispatched Frank to meet with the murdered rappers mother, Voletta Wallace, in New York. After meeting with Voletta, Frank recalls, I reported back to Perry that we may or may not have a great case, but we certainly had a great client. Tall and bespectacled, Wallace still speaks in the lilting accent she brought with her when she moved to New York from Trelawny, Jamaica, as a young girl in 1. She remembers Christopher not just as a world famous rap star but also as the largest five year old in their Brooklyn neighborhood a boy who was already living with the nickname Big by the time he turned ten. She worked two jobs to raise him alone from the age of two, when B. I. G. s father, a small time Jamaican politician named George Latore, abandoned the family. To this day, she seems to be as proud of the prizes her son won as an English student at Queen of All Saints Middle School as she is of the awards he received for his rap albums. Before her sons murder, she says, I trusted everyone. I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. I had no idea there were such powerful forces involved in all of this. After reading about LAPD officer David Macks alleged involvement in her sons murder, Wallace decided to pursue a civil action. I wasnt thinking about the world that I was taking on, only that something was not right and I have to make it right. If I have to sue them for that, I was gonna do it. By early 2. Sanders had weighed what he learned from Wallace and arrived at a decision, filing a civil rights claim in the federal district court of central California. We knew it was a long shot, he admits. The lawsuit accused the LAPD of policies and practices that permitted officers to obtain employment with Death Row Records and enabled at least one of them, David Mack, to conspire with his friend Amir Muhammad in the murder of Notorious B. I. G. Even then we didnt appreciate the magnitude of what we were getting ourselves into, says Frank. As it dawned on them, each attorney drew upon the others strengths. The forty year old Frank, with his blond beard, slumped shoulders and self deprecating attitude, was a skilled legal technician who handled most of the briefs and motions, but deferred to Sanders in matters of strategy and presentation. Despite his reputation as a brilliant attorney, Sanders Southern accent and good time grin initially made it difficult for a lot of people in L. A. to take him seriously. Russell Poole, Notorious B. I. G. Murder Investigator, Dead. Russell Poole, the former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was the main investigator in the March 9th, 1. Notorious B. I. G., died suddenly Wednesday. Baixar Jogos De Sinuca Bilhar more. Poole reportedly suffered a heart attack while meeting with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs homicide investigators to discuss a cold case, the Los Angeles Times reports, and was rushed to a Los Angeles area hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B. I. G. A Special Report Did the LAPD suppress evidence that rogue cops conspired with Death Rows Suge Knight to assassinate rap star Biggie Smalls Inside the civil trial that is threatening to bring down the most powerful institutions in Los Angeles. Poole investigated the Christopher Notorious B. I. G. Wallace murder for approximately a year, and with his findings, pushed a theory that Suge Knight orchestrated the rappers drive by shooting death following a Soul Train Awards after party. Poole believed that Knight, with the help of LAPD officer David Mack and another associate, was responsible for B. I. G. s death as retaliation for the murder of Tupac Shakur a year earlier. However, as Poole said in Nick Broomfields 2. Biggie Tupac, he also believed the Death Row mogul staged the Shakur shooting to avoid paying the rapper millions of dollars in royalties. Had wed been able to aggressively investigate the B. I. G. shooting and had the heart to connect the two and do a thorough investigation, I think we probably would have found out more information, Poole said. I think the fact that law enforcement officers were working for Death Row, that was a scandal in itself Suge Knight, to me, was one of the most powerful gangsters around. He was well organized, he had a lot of power, and what gave him the power, he had dozens and dozens of police officers working in his organization. Broomfields film revolved around Pooles theory, as did a 2. Wallace family against the city of Los Angeles. That lawsuit was ultimately dismissed in 2. Poole left the LAPD in 1. B. I. G. murder. Although Poole dedicated much of his efforts to working the rappers death while pursuing work as a private detective, he also was the basis of a book titled LAbyrinth A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B. I. G., the Implication of Death Row Records Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal. Wallaces murder remains unsolved.