SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on San Francisco’s $13.1 million payment (all times local):3:15 p.m.San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved paying $13.1 million to a man city police framed for a friend’s murder. A federal jury awarded Trulove and his lawyers $14.5 million, but the city appealed. A federal jury last year determined two homicide detectives fabricated evidence, coerced a key eyewitness and withheld vital information that may have exonerated Trulove. ——12:05 p.m.San Francisco plans to pay $13.1 million to a man who spent more than six years in prison after city police framed him for murder. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is expected to approve the payment to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by Jamal Trulove.

Source: National Post March 19, 2019 22:07 UTC