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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Suge Knight appeared remotely from a San Diego prison Thursday and told a judge he was surprised to hear his longtime lawyer, David Kenner, had asked to withdraw as his attorney just weeks before a major civil trial. Speaking over a phone line from his detention center, Knight told the …
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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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The self-described Crips “street legend” charged with the 1996 murder of hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur was denied release to house arrest on Wednesday after a judge reviewed banking records and remained concerned that the six-figure down payment being used to secure his $750,000 bond was tied to a deal to …
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Today, Breakbeat Media released the first episode of Collect Call With Suge Knight, a weekly podcast that Breakbeat Founder Dave Mays says will feature Knight holding phone conversations with him and other guests in the world of hip-hop and beyond. Death Row co-founder Suge Knight has long been one of …
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The arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, a former Southside Crips gang leader, in the murder of Tupac Shakur on Sept. 29, over 27 years after the legendary rapper’s killing in Las Vegas, sent shockwaves across the world. For over a decade, Keefe D had confessed that he’d ordered the …
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