Attorneys for Duane “Keffe D” Davis say he was a 60-year-old retired cancer survivor when police arrested him – not the dangerous drug dealer prosecutors are painting him to be.
Attorneys for Duane "Keffe D" Davis, the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996, are asking a judge to toss out any evidence police obtained when they raided his Nevada home during a nighttime search.
Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed a motion this week on behalf of Davis, who was charged with first-degree murder in the drive-by shooting of Shakur off the Las Vegas Strip.Davis' attorneys say the judge granted a rare nighttime search warrant based on a "misleading portrait" of Davis as a dangerous drug dealer. They say Davis, an ex- gang leader from Southern California, left the narcotics trade in 2008 and began doing inspection work for oil refineries. He was a 60-year-old retired cancer survivor with adult children and grandchildren and had been living with his wife in Henderson for nine years when police searched his home. "The court wasn’t told any of this," his attorneys wrote in court documents. "As a result, the court authorized a nighttime search based on a portrait of Davis that bore little resemblance to reality — a clearly erroneous factual determination, in other words."At the time of the search, Las Vegas police said executing the warrant under the cover of darkness would allow officers to surround and secure the residence, and that if Davis barricaded himself, the darkness would allow officers to evacuate the surrounding homes with the least exposure to residents.RELATED: Tupac Shakur murder suspect files appeal with Nevada Supreme Court to dismiss chargesThe Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department — which conducted the search and collected Davis' electronic devices, "purported marijuana" and tubs of photographs — declined to comment to The Associated Press on Friday.Davis was arrested in September 2023. He pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and has sought to be released since shortly after his arrest.His attorneys claim Davis’ arrest stems from false public statements Davis had made in which he claimed to be present in the white Cadillac from which Shakur was shot. They say he has never offered details that would firmly corroborate his presence in the car, and that he benefited from saying he was present. He dodged drug charges by telling the story in a proffer agreement, and he has made money by repeating it in documentaries and his 2019 book, according to his attorneys.He sought to dismiss his murder charges in the Nevada Supreme Court, but in November his petition was denied.
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