A federal judge has allowed the family of Notorious B.I.G. to include Deathrow founder Suge Knight and various Los Angeles authorities as defendants in their wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles....B.I.G., whose real name is Christopher Wallace, was shot and killed on March 9, 1997 after a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
The Wallace’s lawsuit accuses two convicted cops, Raphael Perez and David Mack, of conspiring with Knight and a former LAPD officer, Reggie Wright, Jr., to kill B.I.G. The suit also claims the city of L.A. helped cover up the involvement of the aforementioned cops in B.I.G.’s murder because it would have made them liable in a lawsuit. According to The Associated Press, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled Friday (November 16) that the Wallace family can amend the lawsuit because new evidence shows Perez was on duty the night of B.I.G.'s slaying and may have been at the scene. Cooper, who declared a mistrial in the Wallace’s first lawsuit against L.A. in 2005, also revealed that the new evidence which was found after the mistrial shows that Knight, Wright and three other LAPD detectives may have been involved in B.I.G’s slaying. An attorney representing Los Angeles, Thomas Reichert, called the new evidence “old wine, new bottles”
