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LOS ANGE CALIFORNIA FBI Discards Theory, Halts Probe of Killing FBI.from Page B1 ering up po- K3Znz[3)] ement in her son's kill Ang. scheduled to go to trialApril 12 in federal court in Los Angeles. her lawyers intend to elicit from Carson. he FBI's Los Angeles field office, said this week that C evidence he had gathered and ers.But they said that had no bearing on the de SEEKING DAMAGES: Voletta Wallace, nother ofthe rap Notorious B.I.G., has filed a lawsuit aceusing the LAPD of covering was part ofa standard adminis up police involvement in her son's killtng. trati e review" conducted when ack,may have been involved February 2004, testify.He sald the bureau found visited Mack at a federal prison no improper conduct on Car- robbing a bank. He had becn on in Alabama.Mack has said Car son suos lace's killin his 14-ye for Volctta Wallace. took issue Detectives learned that Mack obery f he cooperated in the owned a black Chevrolet Impa sald he aid the LAPD" e.Aw erted political pressure on the ness said he saw Mack outside FBI to lay o confidential source" whom he Ihen-Det.Russell Poole st agent I had eve t."Mack would not identify vanced the idea that Mack wrote.It was obvious that ne.. planned the killing at Knight's This week, FBI officials dls the theory however, and detect by invcstigators did not su ng that Car offered to his investigation was re seek a reduction in his sentence. which they said would have vlo results were submitted to the hammad, a Southland mortgage In September, FBI omcials broker, have all denied any role in say.they asked Carson to attend insufficient for prosecution.Sc Since we dropped it." potential witnesse a plaintiff's list of ued to promote his theory in During the meeting, Carson's a music industry party at the Pe shows.Voletta Wallace's lawsuit the mid-wilshire district LAPD detectives have ness forthe plaintins 1s theories in their ef Carson. the FBI agentbegan that Carson might have been in- fluenced by the Wallace lawyers that the killing. like that of r mer of 2003, court docume l in the su could embarrass the bureau, the earlter, stemmed from a f show sources said. BI ag are permt interviewed othcr detectives they have information relevant contact civil atto s to s the brightest sta around the country at the sug witnesse informants to a criminal investigation.But sociated witn Bad Boy Records neys, records show. tion with them. sharing investigative inforn insults and threats on stage al veillance of Muhammad and wired an informant in an at- with Wallace's lawyers. aidhen in recordings LAPD investigato Times staff writer Greg Kri graced former officer, David A. yielded nothing. port