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Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Mark Zuckman said in
court that Knight, the 49-year-old co-founder of influential
hip-hop label Death Row Records, "suffered some medical
condition and was taken via ambulance to an undisclosed
hospital."
Knight was later returned to jail, said Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department Sergeant Steve Wyatt. "He's back in a
general population jail so he's obviously OK," Wyatt said.
This marked the second time this month that Knight was taken to
a hospital on a day he had a court hearing. Sheriff's officials,
citing patient confidentiality, have released no details about
his ailments.
Knight and comedian Katt Williams, 43, were scheduled to appear
in court in Los Angeles. Both men have pleaded not guilty to
robbery charges in the Sept. 5 theft of a camera in Beverly
Hills. Knight had been expected to enter a plea to a new charge
of terroristic threatening.
Knight was taken by ambulance from the courthouse, Zuckman said,
but he did not make an appearance in court.
If Knight is convicted in the camera theft case, he faces a
possible sentence of 25 years to life under California's
three-strikes law, which gives stiffer sentences to those
previously convicted of serious felonies, prosecutor Keri Modder
said last week.
Knight has convictions from 1997 on two counts of assault with a
deadly weapon, according to court documents filed by the Los
Angeles District Attorney's Office.
In a separate case, Knight drew national attention when he was
arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and
hit-and-run in a Jan. 29 altercation outside a burger shop in
Compton, a mostly poor suburb of Los Angeles. He has been jailed
without bail in that case.
(Reporting by Michael Fleeman, Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis;
Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Doina Chiacu and Eric Beech)
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