Looks like a bad news for Suge Knight as a judge set bail at $25 million in murder trial during his bail review hearing.
On Friday, March 20, Los Angeles Judge Ronald S. Coen sided with the prosecution and set Suge Knight's bail at a whopping $25 million in his murder case and attempted murder charges.
After bail was set at $25 million, a much higher price than the rap mogul hoped for, Knight collapsed and hit his head on a chair, PerezHilton reported.
According to Variety, Knight was rushed to the hospital - the result, Matt Fletcher, his attorney suggested of Knight's failure to get appropriate treatment in jail, as he suffers from diabetes. Paramedics quickly arrived on the scene and took an unconscious Knight to the hospital.
Knight allegedly ran over two men in Crompton parking lot in Jan. while out on bail in another case. 55-year-old Terry Carter died as a result of the incident, while the other, Cle Denyale Sloan suffered severe injuries. According to prosecutors, on Jan. 29, the former record producer and music executive ran over two men with his pickup in the parking lot of Tam's Burgers on Rosecrans Avenue, near a set where crews were filming a promotion for the "Straight Outta Compton" movie, about rap group N.W.A.
According to Courthouse News Service, Knight is accused of killing his longtime friend, Terry Carter and critically injuring film technician Cle Denyale "Bone" Sloan, following an altercation related to the filming of the "Straight Outta Compton" spot.
If convicted, the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records, Suge Knight faces life in prison.
According to Knight's legal team, he was attempting to get away from "three gangbangers," in the words of Matt Fletcher.
Fletcher told the judge, "Mr Knight was attacked." Fletcher noted that the prosecutors' debate literally is that he should have sat there and gotten in more trouble. Flectcher went as far as suggesting that prosecutors were trying to cast Knight like a character out of the new hit series, "Empire."
Fletcher claimed they believed Knight is out there running all of these criminal enterprises.
Citing concerns that Knight posed a flight risk, that he is a candidate under the state's three-strike law, and as a result of the possibility of witness intimidation, his bail was initially revoked.
That said, the prosecutors cite Knight's past criminal record, police reports showing past links to robberies, assaults and battery to set his bail at $25 million. Prosecutors provided nearly 300 pages of evidence and arguments.
According to the Associated Press, prosecutors argued that Knight was a part of an extortion scheme that targeted aspiring artists or rappers who come to Los Angeles, and that he would extract a "tax" from them. In addition, prosecutors also included the summary of a police report from last year in which an unidentified person accused Knight of threatening over the forthcoming Universal film "Straight Outta Compton," which is about the rise of NWA. According to prosecutors, Knight apparently was upset that he was not compensated for the use of his likeness in the movie and not only that, he even warned that he would go after Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, former NWA members.
Following the hearing, at a press conference, Fletcher cited reports that the first man that Knight struck, Sloan, later admitted that he in fact assaulted Knight. Fletcher contends that the singer was lured to the scene.
Further claiming that even prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are treated better, Fletcher also complained about Knight's treatment in incarceration.
