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Suge Knight collapses as $25 million bail set
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 23 March 2015
Suge Knight last week left court in an ambulance for the fourth time since being charged with causing the death of Terry Carter back in January.
As previously reported, the one time hip hop mogul killed Carter and injured another man when he hit them with his pick up truck while speeding away from an altercation. He insists the collision was an accident, but stands accused of deliberately driving his vehicle into the two victims.
As is customary for the Deathrow Records founder, the legal wrangling since the incident has been full of drama, with various changes in legal representation and Knight usually being taken ill during court hearings. On Friday he collapsed in the courtroom, with his current lawyer Matthew Fletcher telling reporters that his client hit his head on a chair as he fell unconscious.
Knight has previously complained that he is not receiving appropriate medical treatment in jail, and Fletcher again made that claim last week, saying that Knight is diabetic and has a blood clot but had not had any treatment on the day of the court hearing.
Fletcher also hit out at the $25 million figure that has been set for Knight to post bail. As also previously reported, bail was originally set at the already steep $2.2 million, but that was revoked early on.
The new legal man on the case managed to get bail back on the agenda last week, but the incredibly high $25 million rate was set by the judge after prosecutors pointed out Knight was already on bail in relation to another robbery case. Fletcher called the £25 million figure “absurd” and “clearly excessive”.
