LAS VEGAS — Lawyers for rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight cleared up an unpaid traffic ticket case in Las Vegas on Monday, with a misdemeanor marijuana case still pending from a February traffic stop.
The 46-year-old former Death Row Records executive didn't appear in person before a judge who agreed to let attorneys Richard Schonfeld and David Chesnoff pay Knight's $425 fine on a reduced charge of driving without a license in his possession.
Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Susan Roger dismissed two other infractions and the warrants dating from November 2008 that led to Knight's arrest Feb. 8.
"We're happy to have the case resolved," Schonfeld said outside the courtroom.
No criminal charge has been filed in the marijuana possession allegation, and Schonfeld declined comment about that case.
Knight is due in Las Vegas Justice Court on a summons issued when he was released from the Clark County jail following his traffic stop arrest Feb. 8.
Police reported finding less than an ounce of pot in Knight's Bentley.
Knight grew up in the Los Angeles area, but has faced criminal charges in the past in Las Vegas, where he once played football for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
In years after college, he co-founded Death Row Records, which helped make stars of rappers such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
Chesnoff represented Knight when felony drug and battery charges were dropped in December 2008, following an incident in which Knight was accused of beating a woman while holding a knife in a parking lot near the Strip. Knight also was charged at the time with felony possession of the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone.
Chesnoff said at the time that prosecutors had trouble collecting evidence and witness accounts.
Knight was at the wheel of a car in Las Vegas in which Shakur was shot and killed in 1996. The debt-ridden record label later went bankrupt and was sold.