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Jamal Trulove is an American actor from California and the victim of a wrongful conviction. He appeared in the 2019 film The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Wrongful conviction. After he was framed by police for the 2007 murder of an acquaintance, Trulove was convicted in 2010, sentenced to 50 years to life, and imprisoned for six ...
Oct 10, 2019 · Trulove was transferred to jail in San Francisco, charged with first-degree murder, and brought to trial in early 2010. Despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime—and...
Mar 20, 2019 · Jamal Trulove spent more than six years in prison before being acquitted in 2015. A jury found police deliberately fabricated evidence and withheld exculpatory material.
- Trulove Was Awarded a $13 Million Settlement Over Police Officers’ Fabricating Evidence After a Jury Rewarded Him $14 Million in Damages. In March 2019, Jamal Trulove received a $13.1 million settlement from San Francisco, the Los Angeles Times reported.
- A Witness Who Didn’t Identify Him in an Early Roundup Said He Was a Shooter & Was the Only Evidence Against Him. In 2007, Seu Kuka, 28, was shot nine times on the streets of a public housing project in San Francisco, according to the University of Michigan’s National Registry of Exonerations.
- On Appeal, a Jury Found that Detectives Fabricated Evidence, Exculpatory Notes Were Erased, & the Witness Was Questioned Numerous Times Before Identifying Trulove.
- Kamala Harris was DA When Trulove Was Convicted & Praised the Witness’s Bravery. This Post was deleted by the Post author. Learn more. Kamala Harris, who was San Francisco’s District Attorney in 2010, spoke praises about the “brave witness who stepped forward from the crowd,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported at the time.
May 28, 2024 · EXCLUSIVE: Jamal Trulove, who made a breakout splash starring in The Last Black Man in San Francisco and then was found to have been framed for a murder, is building back his mojo.
May 12, 2023 · Actor and rapper Jamal Trulove, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and exonerated, is making a film about Rudy Corpuz Jr., a former gang member and drug dealer who became a mentor and activist. The film, SoMa: The Movie, is based on Corpuz's life story and his nonprofit United Playaz.
Apr 7, 2018 · A federal jury found that two San Francisco police officers fabricated evidence and withheld information to convict Trulove of murder in 2007. Trulove served 6 and a half years in prison before a retrial acquitted him in 2015.
