Back in August, music mogul Suge Knight was arrested for beating his girlfriend up in a parking lot.  He had a knife in his hand, and drugs on his person.  To be more specific:

“A citizen sees the beating in a parking lot; police get there fast; they see him beating her. It’s a good, solid case,” Las Vegas police Lt. Chris Carroll said.

The woman was not stabbed, but she was treated at a hospital for injuries that Carroll said were not life-threatening.

Police did not release the woman’s name or age but said she identified herself as Knight’s girlfriend of three years.

“This is a very large man,” Carroll said, estimating his weight at more than twice the woman’s. “He was on top of her, actually in the act of violently beating her when the officers arrived, with the knife in his hand.”

At least one officer drew a Taser stun gun as they approached Knight, said Officer Jacinto Rivera, a police spokesman. He said he did not know whether the officers drew their handguns.

Knight dropped the folding knife and was taken into custody without incident, Carroll said.

He was booked into the Clark County jail on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor charges of possession of dangerous drugs without a prescription and domestic violence.

Knight had the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone when he was arrested, Carroll said, but it was not clear whether he or the woman had used drugs or alcohol before the arrest.

Like the officer said, seems like a solid case, right?  No.  Yesterday charges were dismissed without prejudice against Knight due to witness and discovery problems.  And I’m sure those “problems” were that the DA was pretty convinced that he’d come home one day to find his family members all shot in the back of their heads.

The district attorney’s office did file paperwork that it may try to recharge Knight.  What do you want to bet that never happens?