In April, a judge ruled that Suge Knight would undergo a murder trial for his alleged hit-and-run, and possible murder, of Terry Carter. The former Death Row label head is now seeking a dismissal of the charges after pleading not guilty.
According to The Associated Press, Knight's lawyers recently moved to have his charges dismissed on the basis that one of the victims, Cle "Bones" Sloan, has refused to identify Knight as the driver of a red truck that ran down the two men.
"There is nowhere in this transcript that Mr. Sloan ever identifies Marion Knight, the defendant, as a murderer," Matt Fletcher, an attorney for Knight, wrote. "There is nowhere in the entire transcript that Mr. Sloan even identifies Marion Knight as a driver of the red truck in question; the red truck that hit the victims."
XXL also notes that Knight has now hired Thomas Mesereau, the attorney who successfully defended Michael Jackson on child molestation charges, to represent him.
A Los Angeles judge decided to push the motion back until July 7 in order to give Mesereau time to further familiarize himself with the case and to file additional documents should he deem them necessary.
Earlier this month, Knight made headlines when it was reported that he refused to remove a bullet that hit him during the Tupac shooting.
As previously reported, Knight frequently passes out and physicians want to perform an MRI to see what's going on, but there is a bullet fragment stopping them. The fragment has reportedly been logged in Suge Knight's head for the past 19 years. He was hit with the bullet as he drove the car Tupac rode in the night of the shooting on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas.
Last month, Knight was hospitalized following a hearing tied to his murder charges.
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