Wednesday 22 June 2022 10:23 PM Judge declares mistrial in Suge Knight's wrongful death trial trends now

A judge has declared a mistrial in the wrongful death suit against disgraced rapper Marion 'Suge' Knight, who 'ran a man over with his pickup truck and killed him' in 2015. 

Knight, 56, is already serving a 28-year prison sentence after pleading no contest to killing record producer Terry Carter and injuring consultant Cle 'Bone' Sloan by ramming his car into them outside a burger drive-thru in Los Angeles.

The tragedy unfolded when the three men starting arguing on the set of the film 'Straight Outta Compton.' 

Carter's wife and two daughters filed a civil wrongful death lawsuit five months after his January 2015 death, seeking $81 million in damages from Knight. 

After two weeks of deliberation, the jury announced no consensus had been reached on Tuesday. Seven of the jurors agreed that Knight was liable for Carter's death, while five opposed. 

In cases in which the jury can't reach a verdict, the court may 'direct the jury to deliberate further or may declare a mistrial and discharge the jury,' according to Cornell Law School. The case will be retried. 

'It was intense,' one of the jurors told Rolling Stone about the deliberation process.

'It was so intense, someone walked by the jury room and thought a real fight had broken out. There was yelling.'

In court, Knight has argued that he was not negligent when he ran over Carter and that he was suffering from post-traumatic at the time after being shot seven times at a nightclub in 2014.

Carter's wife and two daughters argued in civil court that they each deserved $1 million for each of the 27 years Carter would have lived had he not been killed by Knight. 

'It's unfortunate, but the jury worked very hard. It feels good to know we were the

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