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rocktivity

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Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:39 PM Jan 2018

JANUARY 2018 UPDATE: Suge Knight's ex-lawyers arrested (Witness Tampering)

ABC News.com: Matthew Fletcher and Thaddeus Culpepper...attorneys who represented former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, were arrested Thursday on warrants alleging they were accessories after the fact to a felony...

In a court filing in August, prosecutors accused Fletcher and Knight of witness tampering in the rap mogul's pending murder case. Transcripts of recorded conversations suggested the two had discussed fabricating testimony and Knight had tried to pay off potential witnesses with his lawyer's help, the filing said. 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.

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'll give Knight, his fiancee, and his business partner the benefit of the (reasonable) doubt and forgive them for not knowing that jailhouse phone conversations can be listened to by the authorities -- but Knight's attorney, not so much!


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