Jamal Trulove on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
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''.
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 sentenced to 50 years to life and imprisoned for six years. Jamal successfully appealed his conviction and subsequently sued the city of San Francisco. A California appeals court overturned his conviction in 2014 and he was retried in 2015 and acquitted. In 2016 he sued the city of San Francisco. In April 2018 a jury found the two officers accused of framing him guilty of fabricating evidence and failing to disclose exculpatory evidence. In 2019 theSan Francisco Board of Supervisors
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the board of supervisors, legislative body within the government of San Francisco, government of the San Francisco, City and County of San Francisco in the U.S. state of California.
Government and polit ...
voted to approve a settlement of $13.1 million.
Media appearances
In 2008, Trulove was selected by a public vote to appear on the VH1 dating show ''I Love New York 2
''I Love New York 2'' is the second season of the VH1 reality television series ''I Love New York''. ''I Love New York 2'' starred Tiffany "New York" Pollard who was on a quest to find her true love. Her relationship with season one's Victor, T ...
'', where he was nicknamed "Milliown". Tiffany Pollard
Tiffany Pollard (born January 6, 1982) is an American television personality. She starred on the first two seasons of the reality show '' Flavor of Love'' (2006), where she was given the nickname "New York" by rapper Flavor Flav. Pollard later ...
eliminated him in the first episode.
Trulove appeared in the 2019 film ''The Last Black Man in San Francisco
''The Last Black Man in San Francisco'' is a 2019 American drama film directed and produced by Joe Talbot in his directorial debut. He wrote the screenplay with Rob Richert and the story with Jimmie Fails, on whose life it is partly based. It ...
.''
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trulove, Jamal People from San Francisco Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American people wrongfully convicted of murder