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Suge Knight Seeks Wrongful Death Trial Delay Amid Challenge to ‘Unlawful’ Prison Sentence

Suge Knight seeks delay of his November retrial over his Tam's Burgers fatal hit-and-run as he challenges his 28-year prison sentence

Suge Knight says he was “coerced” into an “unlawful” 28-year prison sentence for killing a man with his truck in a Tam’s Burgers parking lot nearly a decade ago – and now he’s asking a California judge to postpone his fast-approaching November retrial over the wrongful death civil lawsuit brought by the widow and daughters of his victim. The lawsuit was originally filed in June 2015, five months after Knight hit the gas on his F-150 truck and fatally struck Terry Carter while injuring another man, Cle “Bone” Sloan, in the parking lot of the Compton-based burger stand on Jan. 29, 2015. Kenner wrote in his filings that the “brief” delay is necessary because he’s hopeful Knight will prevail with his pending challenge to his imprisonment, called a writ of habeas corpus, and gain his release after spending a decade behind bars.

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