The family of slain rapper Biggie Smalls continues to pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles.

While the murder has spawned books, documentaries and magazine articles exploring possible conspiracy theories, the rapper’s family continues to subscribe to the rogue cop account publicly championed by Russell Poole, an LAPD detective assigned to the case who later left the police force and became an expert witness for Wallace’s family.

Now, with a trial set for this summer in federal court, newly disclosed police documents shed light on how that theory took shape and how police themselves discounted key parts of it almost immediately.

Poole’s theory: Los Angeles rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight conspired with a corrupt LAPD detective, David A. Mack, to kill Wallace as part of a bicoastal rap feud linked to the Las Vegas killing six months earlier of Tupac Shakur.

Both Knight and Mack, who is now in prison for robbing a bank, deny any involvement and have been dropped as suspects by both the LAPD and the FBI. No one has been charged in the killings of Shakur and Wallace.

Perry Sanders, the attorney representing Wallace’s family, said that "there are documents that we have looked at in the LAPD file that support our theory. The documents indicate that David Mack killed Christopher Wallace."

Lt. Paul Vernon, an LAPD spokesman, declined to comment, citing the pending lawsuit and the ongoing investigation of the Wallace slaying.

According to the LA Times the new documents disprove several aspects of Poole’s theory; particularly that Mack offered another officer a security position working for Knight.

Source : LA Times