LOS ANGELES (AP) – Marion “Suge” Knight is scheduled to return to court Thursday for the conclusion of a hearing in which a judge will decide whether the former rap music mogul will stand trial on murder and attempted murder charges.
Knight’s attorney will finish his cross-examination of the lead sheriff’s detective investigating the death of 55-year-old Terry Carter, who was run over by Knight’s pickup truck in late January outside a Compton, California, burger stand. Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen, who has already heard testimony from another man that Knight struck, will then determine whether prosecutors have shown enough evidence to support their case.
Coen said he found that Cle “Bone” Sloan, who was seriously injured when he was ran over by Knight’s truck, was being deceptive when he testified on Monday. Sloan refused to identify Knight in court and said he had no memory of the incident, despite giving detectives a lucid account of events shortly after the deadly encounter.
Sloan said on Monday that he did not want to be a snitch and did not want to be responsible for sending Knight to prison. He told detectives that he punched Knight through the window of his pickup truck right before the Death Row Records hit him and drove over his legs.
In addition to Sloan’s testimony, Coen has watched surveillance footage of the incident and listened to Sloan’s hour-long interview with detectives at a hospital after he was injured.