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TMZ (January 2015): Death Row Records founder Suge Knight...got into a fight on the set of a film project...threw (his) vehicle in reverse...ran over a bystander...and ran over a (second) man...(who)...we're told...is dead...
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Yahoo.com: Two former attorneys for Marion "Suge" Knight, a co-founder of the seminal West Coast rap label Death Row Records, have been indicted for attempting to bribe potential witnesses for an upcoming murder case against Knight.
Matthew Powell Fletcher and Thaddeus Julian Culpepper are charged with bribery, accessory after the fact and attempting to convince someone to commit perjury, among other crimes..
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ABC News.com:...The alleged talks of bribery came in a series of recorded calls in 2015 between Knight, who was in jail, and Fletcher, along with Knight's fiancee and his business partner. The(y)...discuss payments of as much as $25,000 to witnesses to say the victims or others at the burger stand were armed at the time, bolstering Knight's argument that he was acting in self-defense...
Fletcher said he would "pay anything" to bikers who were at the scene. Fletcher...said he was talking about bikers who may have had cellphone video that could be useful to the defense.
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In the United States, it's standard operating procedure for places of incarceration to monitor and record phone conversations, and they even extend the courtesy of INFORMING you of that before allowing your phone conversation to begin. But there is a bright side -- Suge's NEW lawyers have a perfect foundation for an insanity defense!
9/2018 UPDATE: Four days before jury selection was to begin, Knight agreed to plead no contest to voluntary manslaughter (killing someone as a result of trying to injure them) and accept a sentence of 28 years.