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The Los Angeles Superior Court hearing for Knight, 50, was
postponed until Friday because of his failure to appear in
court, the spokeswoman said.
Knight, the co-founder of influential hip hop label Death Row
Records, is charged with robbery and making a terroristic threat
in connection with the September theft of a camera in Beverly
Hills. He has pleaded not guilty.
The music executive is charged in a separate case with murder
and attempted murder stemming from a hit-and-run at a hamburger
stand in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton.
Knight is accused of deliberately running over Terry Carter, 55,
who later died, and another man with his pickup truck following
an argument on the set of a commercial for the film "Straight
Outta Compton." He has pleaded not guilty in that case as well.
If Knight is convicted at trial in the hit-and-run case he faces
a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
He has previous convictions from 1997 on two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon, according to court documents.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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