Overview
- Jury selection began the week of Aug. 10, 2026, and the trial is expected to last about a month in Clark County District Court.
- Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement while prosecutors say he acted as the shot caller rather than the shooter.
- A judge ruled that passages from Davis’s 2019 memoir and a 2008 police interview can be used at trial, and prosecutors plan to call roughly 35 to 45 witnesses to link his statements to the killing.
- No gun or the Cadillac involved has ever been recovered and the three other men who were in the Cadillac that night are dead, leaving the case dependent on decades‑old accounts and witness credibility.
- The trial will test whether historic statements and new witnesses can deliver criminal accountability, affect a pending civil wrongful‑death suit by Shakur’s family, and offer partial closure after 30 years.