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Criminal

Jan. 30, 2018

Rapper’s attorneys say their arrests made no sense

Rap impresario Suge Knight’s attorney and former attorney said they don’t know who signed the warrant.

LOS ANGELES -- After being briefly taken into custody, rap impresario Suge Knight's attorney Thaddeus Culpepper, and his former attorney Matthew Powell Fletcher, said Monday the reasons behind their arrests were flimsy and nonsensical and neither knew which judge signed the warrant.

After being jailed for a day and half last week, Fletcher said, "I was told it was a DA reject. It means some people in the DA's office looked at it a...

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