San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously approved paying $13.1 million to a man city police framed for a friend's murder.
The board approved the settlement Tuesday as part of its consent agenda and with no comment. The payment to Jamal Trulove settles a civil rights lawsuit he filed against four officers and the city.
A federal jury last year determined two homicide detectives fabricated evidence, coerced a key eyewitness and withheld vital information that may have exonerated Trulove. A federal jury awarded Trulove and his lawyers $14.5 million, but the city appealed.
The city agreed to drop its appeal in exchange for the lower payout.
Trulove was an aspiring actor and hip-hop artist when a jury convicted him of murder in 2010. An appeals court overturned the conviction and he was acquitted in a 2015 retrial.
The two detectives have retired.
