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Criminal

Aug. 5, 2000

Death Row Honcho Is Next in Line

The Public Eye: by Ross Johnson. Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, when will Death Row Records honcho Marion " Suge" Knight walk out of Mule Creek State Prison? And what kind of reception will he get from the police, prosecutors and, not least, the L.A. lawyers to whom he threw so much business back in the days when he was at the front of the gangsta rap gravy train?


        By Ross Johnson
        
         Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, when will Death Row Records honcho Marion "Suge" Knight walk out of Mule Creek State Prison? And what kind of reception will he get from the police, prosecutors and, not least, the L.A. lawyers to wh...

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