Judge Rejects Suge Knight's Effort To Peek At Dr. Dre Bank Records

Suge Knight will have to chill til the next episode.

The notorious music exec's attempt to subpoena Dr. Dre's banking records and prove a wild murder plot got snuffed out by a judge — at least for now — on Tuesday.

Issued in a quest to bolster Knight's theory that Dre paid gunmen to get rid of him, the subpoena failed to list the exact bank documents sought, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brian Currey said.

Knight's lawyer quickly vowed to try again.

"It was too broad. We weren't descriptive enough. We'll resubmit," Knight's lawyer Thaddeus Culpepper told the Daily News after the hearing. "We'll make it more tailored."

Knight is hoping to get at one alleged bank check in particular, Culpepper said.

Now behind bars fighting a murder charge, Knight believes Dre used a personal check to pay a man who was at Tam's Burgers in January 2015 when Knight ran over two men with his truck, killing Compton entrepreneur Terry Carter, 55, the lawyer said.

Culpepper said his side believes Dre paid a man named Dwayne "Knob" Johnson to carry out an armed assault on Knight at Tam's — and Knight was fleeing for his life when he accidentally hit Carter.

"And if one check came out of his personal account, maybe there are more," Culpepper said Tuesday.

Knight formalized the contract murder claim in an October court filing that was a cross-complaint in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Carter's widow and daughters.

The founder of Death Row Records claimed Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, wanted him dead to get out from under an alleged lifetime management contract entitling Knight to 30% of the millions Dre made selling his Beats headphones business to Apple and producing the hit flick "Straight Outta Compton."

Knight claimed Dre first hired a gunman to shoot him inside the 1OAK nightclub in West Hollywood in August 2014, then funded the alleged ambush at Tam's.

Dre's camp scoffed at the allegations in October and fought the subpoena for the banking records. A lawyer in court Tuesday said his side wasn't even served with the paperwork.

"Given that Dre has had zero interaction with Suge since leaving Death Row Records in 1996, we hope that Suge's lawyer has lots of malicious prosecution insurance," an attorney for Dre said in an October statement to The News.

Judge Currey urged both sides Tuesday to try to work on their discovery disputes before filing motions and rushing to court.

Carter's daughter Nekaya Carter attended the hearing to keep track of the case, she said.

"They're just fishing," she said of Knight's attempts to get at Dre's bank documents.

"It's frustrating this is taking so long," she said, referring to the ongoing civil litigation and the recent postponement of Knight's murder trial, which had been scheduled for Feb. 22 but now won't happen until May at the earliest.

"We just want justice. Whoever is responsible," she said. "This is about getting justice for my family."

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