The judge in Suge Knight’s robbery trial has given the former rap music mogul time to hire a new attorney after he and his previous advocate parted company acrimoniously.
Knight is accused along with comedian Katt Williams of taking a female celebrity photographer’s camera last year. In a separate case, Knight has been charged with murder in a deadly hit-and-run in which one man was killed and another seriously injured.
The 49-year-old Death Row Records co-founder, real name Marlon Knight, appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom chained to a wheelchair, having fallen at his previous hearing. Knight is diabetic and suffers from several other health issues that have caused him to be assisted out of courtrooms on four occasions since he was charged with murder in February.
He told Judge Ronald Coen he could walk and had done so “perfectly well” from State prison to the prison bus. His murder case attorney complained that the chains and wheelchair were a State attempt to humiliate his client. The judge promised Knight, 49, that he would not be brought into court in the wheelchair again as long as he was fit to walk.
Coen pressed Knight about whether he wanted a new attorney in the robbery case. His previous attorney, David Kenner, said in a filing he no longer wanted to represent Knight. Knight said he wanted to fire Kenner and has until May 27 to hire a new attorney.
