LOS ANGELES : Hearing Delayed on Bid to Drop Rapper’s Murder Case
A judge Friday postponed a hearing until May 19 on whether to drop murder charges against rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg and two others in a case in which some prosecution evidence has been lost.
Prosecutors and attorneys for the rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, were scheduled to resume the hearing that began last week.
At issue is why police destroyed bloody clothes, a bullet and a shell casing related to the Aug. 25, 1993, killing of Philip Waldermariam. Lawyers for Broadus, 23, his bodyguard McKinley Lee, and Sean Abrams, both 25, contend that police detectives destroyed the evidence on purpose because it might have helped the defense.
Prosecutors say it was an accident blamed on a computer error and that the evidence was of minor significance.
Lee, Abrams and the rapper are accused of pulling up to Waldermariam and shooting him in the back. Each says the shooting was in self-defense.
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