After derailing a partial settlement last week and claiming he wanted a full-blown trial, Suge Knight made another about-face today and agreed to a $1.5 million settlement in his wrongful death civil case. The last-minute pact averted a retrial over claims filed by the wife and two daughters of Terry …
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When Suge Knight sped away from Tam’s Burgers in Compton, California, on Jan. 29, 2015, he left two men lying on the asphalt behind him. He had just shifted gears and barreled over the pair with his two-ton Ford Raptor truck. One of the men, Terry Carter, would die from …
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Suge Knight’s wrongful death retrial veered wildly off course Tuesday when the Death Row Records founder dramatically contradicted his lawyer’s claim that he had agreed to a last-minute deal in the long-running civil case. The partial settlement would have allowed Knight to avoid facing a jury over claims he recklessly …
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As he heads into a second wrongful death trial involving the fatal 2015 hit-and-run of Compton businessman Terry Carter, Suge Knight is digging in, refusing to let his longtime lawyer, David Kenner, withdraw from the case. A judge ruled Monday that Knight’s resistance meant jury selection for the civil retrial …
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Two years after Suge Knight sought to overturn what he called his “illegally imposed” 28-year prison sentence in his hit-and-run manslaughter case, a California judge has rejected his bid, calling it both too late and based on evidence described as “not sincere.” In a new ruling issued Tuesday and obtained …
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Suge Knight says he was “coerced” into an “unlawful” 28-year prison sentence for killing a man with his truck in a Tam’s Burgers parking lot nearly a decade ago — and now he’s asking a California judge to postpone his fast-approaching November retrial over the wrongful-death civil lawsuit brought by …
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Suge Knight’s civil trial over allegations he negligently mowed down Terry Carter with his truck amid a dispute linked to the movie Straight Outta Compton ended in a mistrial Wednesday. Jurors deadlocked seven to five in favor of finding Knight liable. Carter’s family vowed to bring the case again. “It …
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Jurors declared themselves “deadlocked” Friday at the California civil trial over whether Suge Knight should be held liable – and pay millions in damages – for killing married Compton dad Terry Carter with his Ford Raptor truck seven years ago amid a parking lot dispute with another man linked to …
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Death Row Records founder Suge Knight should be forced to pay $81 million to the family of Terry Carter, a lawyer representing Carter’s widow and his two daughters told a Los Angeles County jury Tuesday. Knight was convicted of voluntary manslaughter when he ran over Carter with his Ford Raptor …
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Appearing remotely from a cinderblock room painted neon white, jailed Death Row Records founder Suge Knight testified for the first time Wednesday about the day in early 2015 when he tried — but failed — to get a meeting with Dr. Dre at an office for the movie Straight Outta …
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