Duane 'Keffe D' Davis' attempt to dismiss the murder charges against him in the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur has been unsuccessful. Judge Carli Kierny ruled that Davis failed to provide any evidence of immunity agreements he claims to have made with authorities, paving the way for his trial to proceed.
Duane ' Keffe D ' Davis, the only person ever charged in connection with the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas , has failed in his bid to have the case dismissed. Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny ruled on Tuesday that Davis had failed to provide any evidence of immunity deals, stating that 'the state of Nevada has never offered' him such an agreement.
Davis and his lawyer argued that he should never have been charged with murder due to immunity agreements he claims to have reached years ago with federal and local authorities. Attorney Carl Arnold characterized the indictment against his 61-year-old client as an 'egregious' violation of his constitutional rights, citing a 27-year delay in prosecution. Arnold stated after the hearing that they would decide in the coming days whether to appeal the judge's decision to the state Supreme Court. Prosecutors countered that Davis has presented no proof that he was granted immunity by authorities who interviewed him in 1998 and the early 2000s while he resided in California. Prosecutors maintain that the evidence against Davis is substantial, including his own accounts of the 1996 shooting detailed in his tell-all memoir. Davis, a former gang leader, is accused of orchestrating the shooting near the Las Vegas Strip that killed Shakur shortly after a brawl at a casino involving Shakur and Davis' nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson. Davis' trial in Las Vegas is currently scheduled for March 17. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Davis hails from Compton, California. He was apprehended in September 2023 in his neighborhood near Las Vegas. In interviews and his 2019 memoir, which chronicled his life as a leader of a Crips gang sect in Compton, Davis claimed to have obtained a .40-caliber handgun and handed it to Anderson in the back seat of a car from which, he and authorities say, shots were fired at Shakur in another car. Shakur succumbed to his injuries a week later at the age of 25. Anderson, who died in 1998 in a shooting in Compton, had denied involvement in Shakur's killing. Two other men who were in the car with Anderson and Davis have also passed away
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