Suge Knight Says He Deserves To Be Released: “Let Me Take My Plea Back”
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Suge Knight hopes to be released from prison, citing alleged legal shortcomings in his trial. During an interview with Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop, the 58-year-old explained why he should be allowed to walk free, at least temporarily, claiming his rights were violated during his 2015 hit-and-run case.
According to the report, Knight believes he incorrectly had three strikes on his record when he accepted the plea deal in 2018. Additionally, Knight claims a judge did not allow him to represent himself after he fired his attorneys.
“So an unfixable error, the only thing you got to do is you got to make a deal and let me go home or show I was right or you let me take my plea back and start all over,” explained the former CEO of Death Row Records. “But it’d be harder to start all over because you did all this bullsh*t with my case.”
He continued to elaborate, “This [is] my bed… If they allowed me to go to trial, I would have won my case. I would have beat my case. But they didn’t. OK, I understand that, right? My crime carries two, six, 11 [years], if I was guilty. Naturally, they going to give me the high term, right? So my past, who I am, definitely is going to make sure I get some time. And I’m fine with that. But you don’t have the right to double me up.”
Suge Knight, legal name Marion Knight, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in 2018 and was sentenced to 28 years behind bars for the death of Terry Carter. In 2015, Knight struck and killed Carter with his truck during the production of the N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, following an argument with Cle “Bone” Sloan. Knights’s legal team attempted to argue that their client was acting in self-defense.
“You don’t have the right to give me time and a half. You don’t have the right to not let me have a lawyer,” shared Knight with AllHipHop. “So, I wasn’t pushing the envelope as hard at first because I know I got to do some time. But I’ve been gone for nine years, so I did my time already.”
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