Suge Knight opts for 28 years behind bars, dodges life imprisonment
Former Rap mogul and founder of Death Row Records, Marion 'Suge' Knight, 53, has opted for a no-contest plea on the charges of voluntary manslaughter.
A no-contest plea has the same effect as pleading guilty, but it doesn't mean that the defendant pleads guilty.
It is a plea where the defendant neither admits nor disputes a charge. Suge Knight took the decision just days before he was supposed to stand trial.
The formal sentencing is said to be scheduled for October 2018.
Knight's plea sees him being sentenced to 28 years behind bars for the death of 55-year-old Terry Carter, who was run down outside an LA restaurant in 2015 following a dispute over the movie Straight Outta Compton.
His record label helped launch the careers of many artists including Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.
Parts of Knight's plea agreement sees the murder charges against him dismissed by prosecutors, along with separate criminal cases charging him with robbery and making criminal threats.
Had Knight been found guilty of murder as originally charged, he would have faced life in prison, prosecutors said.
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