LOS ANGELES — Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight’s access to visitors and phone calls have been completely cut off at the request of sheriff’s investigators.

Court records show Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan on Friday cut Knight’s access to phone calls and non-attorney visitors. The order was issued at the request of a sheriff’s detective investigating Knight’s murder case, in which he is charged with running over two men, killing one, outside a Compton burger stand in January 2015.

Marion ‘Suge’ Knight is being held on $10 million bail and has pleaded not guilty to driving over two men last year, killing one. The Associated Press

Details about what prompted the order to restrict Knight’s access to visitors are under seal. The order came a week after Knight reshuffled his legal team for the fifth time.

Knight is being held on $10 million bail and has pleaded not guilty. . Under the new order, Knight loses all mail, phone and visitation privileges from everyone except his attorneys, and they are only allowed to visit him outside regular visiting hours. While Knight can speak by telephone with his attorneys, Ryan’s order states Knight’s lawyers cannot conduct a conference call or transfer the call to anyone else.

Knight, 50, was a key player in the gangster rap scene that flourished in the 1990s, and his Death Row Records label once listed Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg among its artists. He lost control of the company after it was forced into bankruptcy.

He faces potential life sentences if convicted in either case because of prior convictions for armed robbery and assault with a gun.

Knight is due back in court on Feb. 22.

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