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Former reality show guest awarded $10M after jury finds police framed him for murder

Jury found detectives fabricated, withheld evidence

Jamal Trulove’s wrongful conviction for killing his friend in 2007 was thrown out.
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Former reality show guest awarded $10M after jury finds police framed him for murder

Jury found detectives fabricated, withheld evidence

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 city바카라 게임 웹사이트s 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 D바카라 게임 웹사이트Amico, had violated Trulove바카라 게임 웹사이트s 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.바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s about time,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Kate Chatfield, a lawyer for Trulove. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Justice is not (merely) being acquitted for a crime you did not do. This was finally justice.바카라 게임 웹사이트Her co-counsel, Alex Reisman, said Trulove was in tears after the verdict was read.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 바카라 게임 웹사이트I Love New York 2.바카라 게임 웹사이트A state appeals court overturned Trulove바카라 게임 웹사이트s 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.In a ruling Feb. 27 that allowed the case to go to trial, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers cited evidence that Johnson, one of the inspectors, questioned the eyewitness shortly after the killing, pointed to a clipboard and asked, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Are you sure it wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t Jamal Trulove?바카라 게임 웹사이트 The witness replied that she didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t know, the judge said.Later, Gonzalez Rogers said, Inspector D바카라 게임 웹사이트Amico showed the witness a single photo of Trulove rather than the usual police practice of presenting photos of different people and asking the witness to identify the perpetrator. Johnson, the judge said, showed the same witness a suggestive photo array consisting of Trulove and others she had already discounted as being the shooter.There was also evidence that the officers were aware of another possible suspect who was never investigated, the judge said.The city바카라 게임 웹사이트s lawyers denied that the officers had coerced the witness and also argued that their alleged misconduct was irrelevant because San Francisco prosecutors, using the evidence the officers presented, made an independent decision to charge Trulove. Therefore, the lawyers contended, the officers바카라 게임 웹사이트 actions had no effect on the case.But Gonzalez Rogers said the decision to prosecute Trulove didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t necessarily exonerate the officers, because it wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t clear that the prosecutors who made that decision had been aware of evidence of the officers바카라 게임 웹사이트 바카라 게임 웹사이트coercive and suggestive conduct.바카라 게임 웹사이트During the trial in his damage suit, Trulove testified about his life in prison. Chatfield said he described 바카라 게임 웹사이트the fear from the time you get up ... the daily humiliation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 and the four years he spent without visits from his family because he was held in a remote location.She said he now works at an after-school program for at-risk children in San Francisco.John Coté, spokesman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, said the verdict was disappointing. He noted that Trulove had initially sued 14 officers, most of whom were dismissed as defendants, and had sought $26 million in damages.바카라 게임 웹사이트We are analyzing the jury바카라 게임 웹사이트s findings and will determine from there how to proceed,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Coté said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Our goal is always to ensure that justice is served.바카라 게임 웹사이트

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 city바카라 게임 웹사이트s 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 D바카라 게임 웹사이트Amico, had violated Trulove바카라 게임 웹사이트s rights by fabricating evidence against him and withholding evidence that might have helped him.

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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.

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Her co-counsel, Alex Reisman, said Trulove was in tears after the verdict was read.

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 바카라 게임 웹사이트I Love New York 2.바카라 게임 웹사이트

A state appeals court overturned Trulove바카라 게임 웹사이트s 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.

In a ruling Feb. 27 that allowed the case to go to trial, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers cited evidence that Johnson, one of the inspectors, questioned the eyewitness shortly after the killing, pointed to a clipboard and asked, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Are you sure it wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t Jamal Trulove?바카라 게임 웹사이트 The witness replied that she didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t know, the judge said.

Later, Gonzalez Rogers said, Inspector D바카라 게임 웹사이트Amico showed the witness a single photo of Trulove rather than the usual police practice of presenting photos of different people and asking the witness to identify the perpetrator. Johnson, the judge said, showed the same witness a suggestive photo array consisting of Trulove and others she had already discounted as being the shooter.

There was also evidence that the officers were aware of another possible suspect who was never investigated, the judge said.

The city바카라 게임 웹사이트s lawyers denied that the officers had coerced the witness and also argued that their alleged misconduct was irrelevant because San Francisco prosecutors, using the evidence the officers presented, made an independent decision to charge Trulove. Therefore, the lawyers contended, the officers바카라 게임 웹사이트 actions had no effect on the case.

But Gonzalez Rogers said the decision to prosecute Trulove didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t necessarily exonerate the officers, because it wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t clear that the prosecutors who made that decision had been aware of evidence of the officers바카라 게임 웹사이트 바카라 게임 웹사이트coercive and suggestive conduct.바카라 게임 웹사이트

During the trial in his damage suit, Trulove testified about his life in prison. Chatfield said he described 바카라 게임 웹사이트the fear from the time you get up ... the daily humiliation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 and the four years he spent without visits from his family because he was held in a remote location.

She said he now works at an after-school program for at-risk children in San Francisco.

John Coté, spokesman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, said the verdict was disappointing. He noted that Trulove had initially sued 14 officers, most of whom were dismissed as defendants, and had sought $26 million in damages.

바카라 게임 웹사이트We are analyzing the jury바카라 게임 웹사이트s findings and will determine from there how to proceed,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Coté said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Our goal is always to ensure that justice is served.바카라 게임 웹사이트