NOTORIOUS RETRIAL DATE SET

Last updated: Saturday, June 10, 2006

NOTORIOUS RETRIAL DATE SET

LATEST: A retrial of the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of slain rapper NOTORIOUS B.I.G. has been set for October (06).

US District Judge FLORENCE-MARIE COOPER ruled the family's attorney had not misled the court when he claimed to have received an 11th-hour tip that the city of Los Angeles withheld documents suggesting rogue police officers were involved in the hip-hop star's killing.

The trial was halted last year (05) when the claim was made by PERRY SANDERS, and the city was ordered to pay the rapper's family over $1 million (GBP555,000) in court costs.

Despite city attorneys fighting back by alleging the plaintiffs had known about the informant's claims as early as 2002, Cooper denies deception.

Although initially agreeing that Sanders "had misrepresented to the court his surprise and shock at learning about this witness in the middle of trial," she now believes he wasn't deliberately misleading.

She says, "What shocked plaintiffs' counsel during trial was not the information allegedly confessed .. but that the police knew about it."

Notorious B.I.G. - real name CHRISTOPHER WALLACE - was shot dead in the street outside a Los Angeles party in 1997.

| Saturday, June 10, 2006

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