Suge Knight's Former Attorneys Charged With Bribing Witnesses

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Source: NPR

Two former attorneys for Marion "Suge" Knight, a co-founder of the seminal West Coast rap label Death Row Records, have been indicted for attempting to bribe potential witnesses for an upcoming murder case against Knight.

In the indictment, unsealed Monday by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, Knight's former attorneys, Matthew Powell Fletcher and Thaddeus Julian Culpepper, are charged with bribery, accessory after the fact and attempting to convince someone to commit perjury, among other crimes. The two are described as having tried to cultivate witnesses to testify on Knight's behalf during his pending murder trial.

The murder charges stem from a hit-and-run incident involving Knight in Jan. 2015 that left Heavyweight Records co-founder Terry Carter dead and severely injured filmmaker Cle "Bone" Sloan. Knight is accused of hitting the two men near the set of the Oscar-winning, 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, and has claimed he was attempting to flee the scene because he feared for his safety. Last year, Knight was also indicted on charges that he threatened the director of Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray.

According to the indictment, Knight's fiancee, Toi-Lin Kelly, texted Mark Blankenship, Knight's business partner, saying "Matt [Fletcher] had put some bread out there" to get witnesses to "come around." As well, in March, 2015, Fletcher is said in the indictment to have "told ... Knight that witness Marvin Kincy would say there were guns at the murder scene and they would give Marvin money for his testimony," which could bolster Knight's self-defense claim, and that "20-25 thousand dollars was a fair investment to secure his freedom." Cle "Bone" Sloan is said to have "needed to be paid money for his testimony," which Knight is said to have agreed to. The two attorneys face a maximum sentence of three years and eight months.

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[rocktivity]

1. Self-snitching at its finest

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ABC News.com (1/2018): ...The alleged talks of bribery came in a series of recorded calls in 2015 between Knight, who was in jail, and Fletcher, along with Knight's fiancee and his business partner. The(y)...discuss payments of as much as $25,000 to witnesses to say the victims or others at the burger stand were armed at the time, bolstering Knight's argument that he was acting in self-defense...

Fletcher said he would "pay anything" to bikers who were at the scene. Fletcher...said he was talking about bikers who may have had cellphone video that could be useful to the defense.

Do correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't jailhouse phone conversations monitored and recorded as a matter of course? And aren't all the parties in the phone conversations specifically informed of that before the conversation starts?

The filing also included accusations that Thaddeus Culpepper had contacted a sheriff's department informant and had agreed to pay for his testimony that he was present at the time of the crime and witnessed events that would favorable for the defense's case...

I didn't know there was a Velvet Jones LAW school of technology. The good news is, Knight's NEW lawyers have a perfect foundation for an insanity defense!


rocktivity | More Self-Snitching At Its Finest

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. .

Velvet Jones!

[brooklynite]

3. I seem to recall another Lawyer who offered up money to hide potentially embarassing revelations...

Can't put my finger on the name right now.....