*According to 106.1 KMEL’s Max Rosenhaus, Jamal Trulove stopped by the Sana G Morning Show – heard exclusively the Bay Area’s #1 source for Hip Hop & R&B – and shared his story of being framed by several San Francisco Police officers for the murder of his friend, and then fighting for his freedom for 6 years from behind bars and then finally being freed and granted $10 million for his suffering!
Trulove detailed exactly how he was set-up by SFPD and how life has change since being freed from 6 years of false imprisonment and granted $10million.
He also talked about his plans for his new money, shared his new music, and how his time on “I Love New York 2” was interrupted by the set-up.
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Here’s what SFGate.com is reporting about Jamal Trulove’s case …
A federal court jury awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a San Francisco man who spent six years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.
Jamal Trulove accused four San Francisco police officers of framing him for a 2007 killing at the city’s Sunnydale public housing complex. An eight-member jury in Oakland heard three weeks of testimony and deliberated for two days before unanimously finding Friday that the two lead homicide inspectors on the case, Michael Johnson and Maureen D’Amico, had violated Trulove’s rights by fabricating evidence against him and withholding evidence that might have helped him.
Jurors found no wrongdoing by a third inspector, Robert McMillan, or by Officer John Evans, the crime-scene investigator. All four officers are now retired. The city is responsible for the damages.
“It’s about time,” said Kate Chatfield, a lawyer for Trulove. “Justice is not (merely) being acquitted for a crime you did not do. This was finally justice.”
Shawn Gant-Benalcazar has yet to say anything to the jury in his capital murder trial, but on Friday the jury continued to listen to him speak on a video recorded three years ago.
Her co-counsel, Alex Reisman, said Trulove was in tears after the verdict was read.
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Trulove, now 33, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for the murder of a friend, Seu Kuka, who was shot in the back in July 2007.
The main evidence against him came from a neighbor who testified that she saw Trulove chase down Kuka and shoot him after a late-night argument. Her first identification was tentative, but she affirmed it after seeing Trulove three months later as a guest on the reality TV show “I Love New York 2.”
A state appeals court overturned Trulove’s conviction in 2014, after finding that the prosecutor had made an unfounded claim to the jury, telling jurors that the neighbor had been threatened and risked her life by coming forward.
A second trial resulted in a jury acquittal in 2015.
In his damage suit, Trulove accused police of coercing the witness to identify him.
Get the rest of the story at SFGate.com.
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