Suge Knight to Hire New Attorney in Celebrity Photographer Robbery Case

The photographer accuses the Death Row Records co-founder and comedian Katt Williams of taking her camera last year

A judge is giving Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight time to hire an attorney in a robbery case filed after a celebrity photographer accused him and comedian Katt Williams of taking her camera last year, according to The Associated Press.

Knight appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday chained to a wheelchair. The judge pressed Knight, facing a murder charge in a separate hit-and-run case, about whether he wanted a new attorney in the robbery case.

Knight's previous attorney, David Kenner, said in a filing he no longer wanted to represent Knight, but the judge told Knight in court Wednesday he needed to hear that from him.

The judge told Knight, "I need it from your mouth. Is Mr. Kenner fired?"

"Mr. Kenner's fired," Knight, seated at a courtroom table in a jail orange jumpsuit, responded.

Knight has until May 27 to hire a new attorney.

Wednesday's hearing was relatively uneventful, in contrast to previous recent court appearances. Last month, 49-year-old Knight collapsed in court after prosecutors asked he be held on $25 million bail in the murder case stemming from a fatal hit-and-run at a Compton burger stand.

His attorney in that case, Matt Fletcher, said Knight told him he had not had his medication that morning.

Earlier last month, Knight told a judge he was suffering from blindness moments before he was taken to a hospital. He said he was blind in one eye and had only about 15 percent vision in his other eye during a brief court appearance.

Knight is accused of running down two men, killing one of them, on Jan. 29. He has pleaded not guilty in what his attorneys have characterized as  a case of self-defense, contending a group of men ambushed and attacked Knight.

 

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