Editing Openai/693062f3-58f0-800b-9460-07f52a49ae27 (section)

==== You’ll sometimes see people online say, “New evidence proved he was innocent and the prosecution lost it.” The actual record is less dramatic: ====
* During trial, the prosecutor disclosed that photos of the accuser’s chest taken the day after the alleged attack had been misfiled and only recently found.Encyclopedia.com<ref>{{cite web|title=Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/tupac-shakur-trial-1994-95|publisher=encyclopedia.com|access-date=2025-12-04}}</ref>
* Withholding evidence can be grounds for a mistrial, and the defense did raise this as a possible appeal issue — but: - The judge did not throw out the case. - The jury still returned a guilty verdict on sexual abuse. - There is no indication in appellate decisions that some magic “exonerating” evidence later appeared and cleared him; the conviction stands in the case law.vLex<ref>{{cite web|title=vLex|url=https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/people-v-shakur-885908254|publisher=case-law.vlex.com|access-date=2025-12-04}}</ref>

So those “lost evidence proves he’s innocent” narratives trace back to a real discovery issue, but not to any verified finding of false accusation.