Suge Knight: Another Lawyer Bites the Dust

Suge Knight said goodbye to lawyer #4 Thursday morning, when Tom Mesereau left the case.

Our sources say Suge and Mesereau had a bitter disagreement over confidential information. We're told Suge claims the info made its way to authorities and he became enraged.

Here's what's odd ... the judge allowed our camera in the courtroom but then pulled the plug a minute after Suge's case was called and then cleared the entire courtroom so no member of the media or public could hear the reason for the laywer/client split.

We called Mesereau -- one of the top criminal defense lawyers in L.A. who won acquittals for Michael Jackson and Robert Blake -- but he was not reachable.