Suge Knight Beats Another Charge — For Now
Coming on the heels of O.J. Simpson getting a relatively stiff sentence for a robbery case, it’s disappointing to see Suge Knight beating the rap again:
A Las Vegas judge has dismissed drug and battery charges against Marion Knight, known as Suge, the hip-hop mogul and founder of Death Row Records, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Knight, right, was arrested in August when police officers said they saw him beat Melissa Isaac while holding a knife in a parking lot near the Strip. A complaint filed by the district attorney’s office of Clark County, Nev., also said that Mr. Knight had the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone in his possession at the time.
Sounds like a pretty good case. The cops witness the attack. The drugs are on his person. What went wrong?
Mr. Knight’s lawyer, David Chesnoff, said prosecutors had “discovery problems and witness problems.”
Witness problems? What, the cops didn’t show up to the prelim?
I thought it was only L.A. where Suge Knight had cops on the payroll.
Oh, well. The report says the case may not be over, and the D.A. may go to the grand jury. Let’s hope so.
Dear Patterico,
i know you won’t like this, but the simplest solution is that is taken care of on the street.
at least it’ll be NHI, unless some poor bystander gets roped in.
redc1c4 (27fd3e) — 12/8/2008 @ 2:16 amJust another example of rich man’s justice being different from everybody else’s justice. But I think redc1c4 has a point, this will be taken care of on the street, eventually.
J. Raymond Wright (d83ab3) — 12/8/2008 @ 8:43 amProbably bad reporting, but I read it as Melissa Isaac holding the knife.
htom (412a17) — 12/8/2008 @ 9:45 amPerhaps Melissa Isaac is now co-operating with Knight instead of the police (witness problem) in a way that vitiates the probable cause for the search that revealed the drugs (discovery problems).
kishnevi (81e410) — 12/8/2008 @ 6:27 pmOf course, an invitation to testify under oath before the grand jury might put a different light on the witness problem, at least.
district attorney David Roger told las vegas sun, that he expects to refile criminal charges against Suge Knight in the near future.
But they have problems finding the corrections officer who allegedly found the illegal drugs on Suge Knight when he was booked into Clark County Detention Center.
happyf (13b825) — 12/10/2008 @ 9:04 am