Rapper Suge Knight To Serve 28-Year In Prison For Hit-And-Run Case
- Suge Knight is to serve 28-year in prison for the hit and run case of January 2015.
- The 53-year-old rap mogul was sentenced after he pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the incident.
- Knight was convicted of two counts of a s sault with a deadly weapon; he pleaded no contest in 1995 and was sentenced to five years.
Former rapper Marion "Suge" Knight has been sentenced to 28 years in prison after he pleads no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the January 2015 hit-and-run incident.
The 53-year-old rap mogul made his plea in a Loa Angeles courthouse on Thursday to avoid charges of murdering one man and attempting to kill another with his pick-up truck.
Knight will formally be sentenced in October. People confirmed the plea deal calls for the rapper to serve 22 years on the voluntary manslaughter count, five years as it is a third strike violation and one year for deadly weapon allegations.
Knight avoided two other pending criminal cases; he was charged with stealing a camera from a woman in September 2014 and for making criminal threats in August 2014.
Knight was previously convicted of two counts of a s sault with a deadly weapon. He pleaded no contest in 1995 and was sentenced to five years.
He was given parole in 1996 and consecutively he was sentenced to nine years in prison in February 1997, after he broke the terms of his parole. Then, he engaged in a fight at a Las Vegas hotel before Tupac Shakur was wounded in a drive-by attack.
