LOS ANGELES (AP) – Former rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight and comedian Katt Williams are scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday to be re-arraigned in a robbery case.
The hearing comes two weeks after a judge determined the men should stand trial on robbery charges filed after a celebrity photographer accused the pair of stealing her camera in Beverly Hills in September 2014.
Williams’ attorney acknowledged that the comedian briefly took the photographer’s camera but said at an Oct. 13 hearing that he did so only to erase images of Knight’s son. The photographer testified that a confrontation with Williams and another woman left her with a concussion and wrist and hand injuries.
Knight’s attorney denies the Death Row Records co-founder was involved in taking the camera. Attorney Thomas Mesereau said at the hearing that threats Knight made toward photographer Leslie Redden were attempts to get her to not shoot photos of his young son.
“The only evidence that exists is he didn’t want his son photographed,” Mesereau said. “Any father would have acted as he did.”