Overview
- Prosecutors rested after calling about two dozen witnesses and playing hours of Duane “Keffe D” Davis’s interviews, and the defense then rested without calling Davis so closing arguments are set for Monday and jury deliberations will follow.
- The state’s case leaned heavily on Davis’s own recorded interviews, jail calls and passages from his 2019 memoir to place him in a Cadillac, describe procuring a gun and portray him as the organizer of the retaliatory drive-by.
- Defense lawyers argued Davis fabricated or embellished his accounts for money and notoriety and stressed the prosecution never produced the Cadillac or a murder weapon to independently confirm his claims.
- Witnesses acknowledged major investigative gaps: a retired detective who interviewed Davis said he could not verify key details, and several men alleged to have been in the car have since died, leaving limited forensic corroboration.
- If the jury convicts under Nevada law that allows charging someone who arranged or supplied a weapon, Davis faces a possible life sentence and the verdict would be the most significant legal resolution yet in Tupac Shakur’s nearly 30-year-old killing.