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Last edited Mon Feb 10, 2020, 11:52 PM - Edit history (5)
New York Times: Marion...("Suge")...Knight, the one-time rap mogul...will be sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading no contest...to voluntary manslaughter...just days before jury selection was to begin.
He had been charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run as a result of a dispute on the set of a trailer for the popular N.W.A biopic, which included a depiction of Mr. Knight. The authorities said Mr. Knight killed Terry Carter, 55, a Compton, Calif., businessman, and injured a security consultant, Cle Sloan, when he ran over both at a local burger stand. His lawyers said at the time that he was fleeing and had acted in self-defense...
Mr. Knight served nearly five years in jail for violating the terms of his probation after a 1996 fight at a Las Vegas hotel. Hours after the altercation, (Tupac) Shakur was fatally shot while riding in Mr. Knight’s car. Mr. Knight also has convictions for armed robbery and assault with a gun; in 1995, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to five years’ probation for assaulting two rappers at a studio in 1992...
(He) went through 15 attorneys...(H)is fiancée was jailed for violating probation after she was accused of selling surveillance footage of the hit and run to TMZ for $55,000...
He had been charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run as a result of a dispute on the set of a trailer for the popular N.W.A biopic, which included a depiction of Mr. Knight. The authorities said Mr. Knight killed Terry Carter, 55, a Compton, Calif., businessman, and injured a security consultant, Cle Sloan, when he ran over both at a local burger stand. His lawyers said at the time that he was fleeing and had acted in self-defense...
Mr. Knight served nearly five years in jail for violating the terms of his probation after a 1996 fight at a Las Vegas hotel. Hours after the altercation, (Tupac) Shakur was fatally shot while riding in Mr. Knight’s car. Mr. Knight also has convictions for armed robbery and assault with a gun; in 1995, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to five years’ probation for assaulting two rappers at a studio in 1992...
(He) went through 15 attorneys...(H)is fiancée was jailed for violating probation after she was accused of selling surveillance footage of the hit and run to TMZ for $55,000...
No trial? Oh, buzzkill! But seriously, folks, between the video evidence and Suge's legal track record, a sentence of life minus parole on the murder charge was pretty much guaranteed. Or maybe, after four years of incarceration and 15 lawyers, Suge just ran out of legal fee money...anyway, cue the guy with the Dragnet hammer!
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