LOS ANGELES _ Comedian Micah "Katt" Williams will have to attend a year of anger management classes after pleading no contest Monday to a robbery charge stemming from a 2014 incident in which prosecutors say he and rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight snatched a camera from a photographer.
Under the terms of the deal, Williams, 54, also received three years' probation when he entered the plea to second-degree robbery, according to the Los Angeles district attorney's office. The comedian had faced up to seven years in prison.
Prosecutors say Williams and Knight, who co-founded Death Row Records, chased a celebrity photographer and snatched her camera outside a Beverly Hills studio in September 2014.
Knight, who is still facing a murder charge in a separate case, has pleaded not guilty in both the murder and robbery cases.
This month, a judge set a trial date for January 2018 in the murder case. Knight, 51, is accused of barreling his red truck into two men in the parking lot of a Compton burger stand in late January 2015, killing Terry Carter, 55. Footage from a security camera shows Knight _ who says he acted in self-defense _ plowing his truck into the men. Knight fled but later turned himself in.
Other criminal charges have been filed against Williams in recent years. He was charged with misdemeanor battery after getting into a fight with a woman at a Los Angeles hotel in July, and he was accused of disorderly conduct in Georgia months earlier after getting into an altercation with a teenager.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney's office could not immediately comment on the battery charge.
