In what’s been a long road of twists and turns in the aftermath of the hit-and-run accident that sent him to jail, Suge Knight’s attorney recently filed a motion to have the charges against him dropped because the surviving victim of the incident refuses to positively identify him in court.
According to Billboard.com, on Friday, May 29, Knight’s attorney, Matt Fletcher, filed a motion requesting all charges against Knight, including attempted murder, be dropped.
In April when Cle “Bone” Sloan took the stand at the preliminary hearing in the matter, he refused to confirm that it was Knight who was behind the wheel of the red SUV that ran over him saying “I will not be used to send Suge Knight to prison.”
Terry Carter, the other man allegedly hit by Knight, died of the injuries he sustained shortly after the incident.
“There is nowhere in this transcript that Mr. Sloan ever identifies Marion Knight, the defendant, as a murderer,” Fletcher said in his motion. “There is nowhere in the entire transcript that Mr. Sloan even identifies Marion Knight as a driver of the red truck in question; the red truck that hit the victims.”
Despite sticking to the “no snitching” code used in the courtroom, Sloan reportedly gave an account of the incident to detectives that all but said Knight’s name. Additionally, there is surveillance footage of incident reportedly showing someone believed to be Knight driving the red SUV that hit Carter and Sloan before driving off.
Knight is scheduled to return to court in the matter on July 7.
