Rap mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight has pleaded no contest to manslaughter following a fatal hit-and-run in 2015 and faces 28 years in prison as part of a plea deal with prosecutors in Los Angeles.
Knight, co-founder of the label Death Row Records, entered the no contest plea - the equivalent under California law of a guilty plea - before he was due to face trial for murder.
Prosecutors had said Knight ran down two men in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant in the Los Angeles area of Compton in January 2015. Knight's attorneys had argued he was acting in self-defence and was fleeing armed attackers.
Fifty-five-year-old Terry Carter was killed, while another man, CleBone Sloan, survived his injuries.
Fifty-three-year-old Knight is due to be sentenced on October 4. As part of the plea agreement the murder charges will be dismissed by prosecutors, along with other charges against Knight of robbery and making criminal threats.
