A US district judge has postponed the wrongful death case being brought by the family of slain rapper Notorious BIG, real name Christopher Wallace, against the city of Los Angeles, to give the family's attorneys more time to obtain information from the defence. The retrial was set to go ahead on 16 Oct, but now Judge Florence Cooper has set a new date of 16 Jan.
As previously reported, this is the second time the case has gone to court. A mistrial was declared last summer following the discovery that an LAPD detective deliberately withheld information potentially linking two police officers, David Mack and Rafael Perez, to Biggie's murder. Lawyers for the late hip-hop star maintain that the new officers helped to organise his killing, on the orders of Death Row mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight.
Earlier this year the city of Los Angeles was ordered to pay the Wallace family $1million compensation over the withheld evidence.