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Former rap mogul "Suge" Knight is expected to be sentenced on Thursday to about three decades in prison at a Los Angeles court hearing that comes about four years after he killed one man and injured another with his truck outside a Compton burger stand.

On September 20, the 53-year-old Death Row Records co-founder struck an astonishing plea deal with prosecutors, just a few days ahead he was to have stood trial for murder and attempted murder.

Knight instead pleaded no contest to intentionally murder and agreed to a prison sentence of 28 years.

The sentence represents the low point of a drawn-out diminution for Knight, one of the most significant personalities in the history of hip-hop.

Earlier, Knight had felony convictions for armed robbery and assault. After it was forced into bankruptcy, he lost control of Death Row.

In January 2015, he got into a fight with a longtime rival, Cle "Bone" Sloan, a consultant on the N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton."

In an instant captured on surveillance video, Knight backed his truck into Sloan, who was injured, then drove it forward into businessman Terry Carter, who died from his injuries. Knight's lawyers have said it was an act of self-defense.

Voluntary homicide would usually bring a sentence of 11 years imprisonment, but Knight's conviction along with his former felonies triggers California's three strikes law. That doubles the sentence for manslaughter and adds an extra six years.

The agreement as well as clears Knight in two other cases, both from 2014. He was accused of thieving a camera from a woman and of sending menacing text messages to "Straight Outta Compton" director F. Gary Gray.

By Sowmya Sangam