Biggie Smalls' Mom Wants Grand Jury on Murder

But, Kading says, Robinson's clues pointed to a dozen groups, neighborhoods, addresses and nicknames that had nothing to do with mortgage broker Harry Billups, who had changed his name to Amir Muhammad after becoming a Muslim. "There's no way that description points to [Mack and Billups]," Kading declares. "Mack and Billups should have been disqualified based on the [weak] clue, not made the focus of the investigation."

In fact, in 2005, Robinson recanted, saying under oath in Voletta Wallace's civil lawsuit that he got the possible descriptions and names of the potential shooter from somebody while he was in jail and then pretended to have direct knowledge of the purported clues.

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Third, and interestingly, Billups/Muhammad was never asked by LAPD why he wrote down a false Social Security number, even though that act fueled years of speculation and news coverage.

It wasn't until a June 2004 deposition that Billups, with his mortgage-broker background and knowledge of identity scams, explained that he hadn't put his real number down on the log because criminals could potentially see it.

Poole is saddened to hear that Voletta Wallace is questioning his tainted-cops theory, but he stands behind his conviction that Mack was involved.

"I've been by Mrs. Wallace's side this whole time," Poole says, "and my life has changed a lot because I stood up for Mrs. Wallace, so I am sorry to hear it. I still believe Mack and Billups were involved and, contrary to what [Kading] believes, they haven't been eliminated. We agree that Suge Knight was involved, but his Poochie theory doesn't add up to me."

Sanders agrees that jailhouse informant Robinson's clue was muddled from the start and that Robinson's now-recanted claims can't be narrowed down beyond a vague description of a Muslim or person of Middle Eastern descent.

However, when it comes to Kading's denial that Mack or other dirty cops were involved, Sanders says, "Greg and I just disagree over the logic of certain things. That's all we're doing."

Voletta Wallace says she now is leaning toward believing that the case was "solved a long time ago.

"And the LAPD is doing nothing about it just because of some little theory or thing that my attorney is saying? That doesn't sound right to me," she continues. "Who cares what my attorney says? Who cares what Voletta Wallace says? Mr. Sanders and I can't make LAPD make an arrest. And if they won't do a grand jury, then maybe Mr. Sanders was right all along."

Sanders and Wallace are so frustrated that the district attorney has not summoned a grand jury to look into Knight that Sanders says he's looking into whether a citizen can convene one.

"The idea has been given some modicum of thought," Sanders says. "I think there's a lot of people in the world who, given the chance to convene an ad hoc grand jury, would do so."

The burden of proof is far lower in a civil trial than in a criminal trial, which begs the question of why Sanders has not filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Knight.

Kading thinks it's because there's no money in suing Knight, saying, "Suge Knight is broke and Mrs. Wallace's attorneys know it."

Sanders says he will not discuss civil litigation.

"There is a strategy, but it's not one I float first in the newspaper," Sanders says. "I'd like to think, however, that the District Attorney's Office of Los Angeles has the spine, fortitude and determination to see this come to fruition. That's what I'd really like to think."

Kading, however, has a plan that he believes could conceivably compel prosecutors to consider a grand jury. It involves combining Swann's statements and testimony with a shocking new piece of evidence he claims exists.

"According to federal sources directly involved in the investigation," Kading says, "the FBI is in possession of a tape in which Suge Knight alludes to his and Theresa Swann's own involvement in the murder. If true, and in fact the tape exists that contains incriminating evidence between Suge Knight and Swann, that should be more than enough to justify the prosecution of Knight."

Sanders says he is unaware of the alleged tape. The Weekly was unable to confirm whether law enforcement possesses it.

In the alleged tape, "Knight's statements corroborate Swann's statements to the LAPD," Kading says. "That's what the grand jury needs. But it will only happen if the DA is willing to go with Swann, the testimony of law enforcement and this corroborating tape, and that's a decision they need to make, along with LAPD."

Voletta Wallace now is listening closely to Kading, and doesn't care how her son's killers are brought to justice, so long as someone is held responsible.

She is frustrated with the police and the prosecutors, and with the disagreement brewing among her supporters.

"Based on [Kading's] book," she says, "I hope to God that these men in the district attorney's office, who claim to represent the people, really will represent the people. Right now it's like they're killing us, they're stabbing us, they're murdering my son all over again."