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Court will determine if Suge Knight will stand trial for murder today

Suge Knight.
Suge Knight.

A court hearing to determine if former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight should stand trial on murder and other charges for allegedly running down two men in a Compton parking lot, killing one of them, will continue today.

Knight, 49, is charged with murder, attempted murder and two counts of hit-and-run for allegedly injuring Cle “Bone” Sloan, 51, and killing 55-year- old Terry Carter on Jan. 29 in the parking lot of Tam’s Burgers in the 1200 block of West Rosecrans Avenue.

Knight’s attorney contends his client was the victim of an unprovoked attack by Sloan and others and was acting in self-defense.

On Monday, Sloan testified during the preliminary hearing but said he appeared only because he had been subpoenaed and insisted he would not be used as a “snitch” to put Knight behind bars. He repeatedly said he remembered little about what happened in the parking lot.

He even hesitated when he was asked to identify Knight in court, suggesting the man sitting in court “doesn’t look like the guy who was out there.”

Attorneys, however, read from a transcript of his interview with detectives shortly after he was struck and Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes later played a recording of the conversation for the court. In that hospital interview, Sloan said he had argued with Knight earlier at a film set and was driving to another location when he spotted the rap mogul in a parking lot, and heard Knight bad-mouthing him and making threats. Sloan told detectives he jumped out of his car and started punching Knight through the window of Knight’s truck.

Defense attorney Matthew Fletcher said Sloan told police he was “enraged” and that there had been “bad blood” between Sloan and Knight for years.

On the stand, Sloan testified that Knight “always gets under my skin” and acknowledged that he was “mad” but denied being “enraged.”

Sloan said Knight had been harassing the producers of a film called “Straight Outta Compton,” including Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and director Gary Gray, since last summer when the film was shot. The movie is about the emergence of the rap group N.W.A.

On the day in question, filming of some promotional ads for the feature had been shut down at one location until Knight left the set because the producers were scared of the former rap mogul, Sloan said.

Knight’s defense attorney said Sloan had been hired as security to “deal with Suge Knight” and suggested Sloan had a gun at the confrontation at Tam’s — an allegation Sloan denied.

Fletcher also accused Sloan of reaching into Knight’s truck and hitting the gear shift.

“You’re the one who put the car in gear and ran him over,” he said to Sloan, who denied it.

Sloan was reminded that he had been granted immunity by prosecutors for whatever role he might have played in the events of Jan. 29. That seemed to do little to jog his memory, but he expressed regret.

“That’s the whole tragic thing … if I didn’t make that right turn (into the parking lot), I wouldn’t be sitting here,” Sloan said.

Knight, who was free on bail in a robbery case when he was charged with murder, remains jailed in lieu of $25 million bail.

Members of Carter’s family as well as Suge’s supporters were in the courtroom Monday and one woman blew a kiss to Knight as he exited in handcuffs.

Knight, a Compton native and former football player, co-founded Death Row Records, which in its heyday in the early 1990s generated revenues of up to $100 million per year.

He helped launch some of rap’s biggest acts, including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur. Knight was with Shakur when the rapper was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996.

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