Overview
- Jury selection, which begins Monday, Aug. 10, will start a trial expected to last about four weeks with Nevada prosecutors presenting their case.
- Prosecutors say Davis supplied the 40‑caliber Glock used in the shooting and seek to convict him as a principal under Nevada law even though he is not accused of firing the gun.
- The government intends to center the case on Davis’s 2019 memoir, a 2008 police interview and recorded 2023 jailhouse remarks that undercut his claims a ghostwriter wrote the book.
- A judge has ruled the memoir and the 2008 interview admissible, and prosecutors have disclosed a broad witness list that is expected to include Marion “Suge” Knight.
- The trial revives one of hip‑hop’s most enduring mysteries and could reshape how courts treat self‑published accounts and decades‑old statements in cold‑case prosecutions while offering possible closure to Tupac’s family.