Suge Knight's lawyer claims 'massive scandal and cover-up' involving a hit man and Dr Dre may explain his harsh jail restrictions
- Former rap mogul Suge Knight, 50, can only communicate with his lawyers
- He has been charged with murder and attempted murder after running over two men in January 2015
- Knight was previously shot six times at a nightclub in August 2014
- His lawyer Thaddeus Culpepper filed a legal motion saying a detective working on the murder case also investigated the shooting
- Culpepper says the restrictions imposed on Knight are meant to keep him from connecting the two cases
- The motion claims that one of the gunmen who shot Knight said Dr Dre had paid him and a friend $50,000 to kill Knight
Suge Knight's lawyer has claimed that a 'massive cover-up' involving a hit man and Dr Dre explains his harsh restrictions imposed to his client in jail.
Knight, 50, has been charged with murder and attempted murder after running over two men in Compton January 2015.
He was previously shot six times at the 1Oak nightclub in Los Angeles in August 2014, during a pre-VMA party hosted by Chris Brown.
His lawyer Thaddeus Culpepper has now filed a legal motion saying his client was prohibited from communicating with anyone but his legal team to keep him from connecting the two cases, the New York Daily News reported.
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Suge Knight (pictured in court in February) faces murder and attempted murder charges after running over two men in Compton in January 2015
Secret orders currently prevent Knight from communicating with anyone except his lawyers by phone, mail and during visits.
Culpepper filed the lengthy motion on Friday in a bid to unseal these orders.
In it, he claims that the main detective working on Knight's murder case also investigated his 2014 shooting.
The motion, which has been reviewed by the New York Daily News, states that the detective previously told Knight that a man identified as Tee-Money had come forward as one of the gunmen.
Culpepper's motion claims that the same detective told Knight that the shooter said Dr Dre had paid him and a friend $50,000 to kill Knight, the New York Daily News wrote.
Lawyer Thaddeus Culpepper claims in a motion filed Friday that a detective told Knight that a gunman had said rapper Dr Dre (pictured) had paid him and a friend $50,000 to kill Knight
Knight surrendered to the authorities after the January 2015 hit and run, which killed Terry Carter (left) and seriously injured Cle 'Bone' Sloan (right)
Dr Dre, now 51, released his 1992 album The Chronic with Death Row Records, Knight's label at the time.
The filing also says that an off-duty sheriff's deputy let the gunmen inside 1Oak on the night of Knight's shooting and later helped them flee the country at LAX airport, while authorities 'inexplicably released Tee-Money'.
Culpepper says authorities stopped giving Knight any information regarding the shooting after the hit and run in January 2015.
Knight turned himself in following the crash that killed Terry Carter and seriously injuring Cle 'Bone' Sloan in Compton.
He has since pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder.
His lawyer also claims in the motion that investigators tried to use an informant named Danny Timms to lie by saying Knight had admitted to intentionally running over Carter.
Culpepper says it would be 'impossible at this juncture to assess the veracity' of the statements made in his filings, but claims Knight's constitutional rights have been violated as he awaits trial, the New York Daily News reported.
'The supervising judge and two superior court judges worked in concert to violate these rules and several others to defraud defendant Marion (Suge) Knight of his United States and California constitutional rights,' Culpepper's motion states.
The filing will be reviewed on April 21 during a hearing.
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