Defense lawyer says don't trust ex-gang leader's own accounts of killing Tupac Shakur

(23 Apr 2024)
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Las Vegas - 23 April 2024
1. Duane “Keffe D” Davis enters court
2. Duane “Keffe D” Davis speaking with lawyer Carl Arnold
3. Judge Cari Kierny
4. Court room
5. Prosecution and defense
6. Duane “Keffe D” Davis standing in court
7. Judge Cari Kierny
STORYLINE:
The attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas said Tuesday his client's accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction.
Arnold said prosecutors don't have proof that Davis was in Las Vegas at the time, don’t have the gun or the car used during the shooting as evidence.
Davis has been jailed on $750,000 bail since his arrest in September, and Arnold said Tuesday he has been unable to raise the 10% needed to obtain a bond to be released to house arrest.
Davis, 60, is originally from Compton, California. He is the only person still alive who was in a car from which shots were fired in September 1996, killing Shakur and wounding rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight in another car at a traffic signal near the Las Vegas Strip. Knight, now 58, is serving 28 years in a California prison for an unrelated fatal shooting in the Los Angeles area in 2015.
Arnold told reporters outside the courtroom that he believed Davis may be able this week to finish raising the $75,000 to obtain a bail bond and be freed to house arrest with electronic monitoring. A source hearing could take place within 30 days, he said.
Davis was arrested outside his home in suburban Henderson. He pleaded not guilty in November to first-degree murder and has remained jailed at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Prosecutors say they have strong evidence that Davis incriminated himself during police and media interviews since 2008, and in his own 2019 tell-all memoir of life leading a Compton street gang.
Arnold on Tuesday echoed comments by Davis’ previous attorneys, telling reporters that Davis wrote the book to make money, as others including a police investigator had done. He also noted that police and prosecutors do not have a murder weapon or the car from which shots were fired. He said the state will have to prove that Davis was in Las Vegas the night Shakur was shot.
Davis wrote that he was promised immunity from prosecution in 2010 when he told authorities in Los Angeles what he knew about the fatal shootings of Shakur and rival rapper Christopher Wallace six months later in Los Angeles. Wallace was known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls.
Shakur had five No. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted in 2017 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He received a posthumous star last year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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