Overview
- A 16-person panel of 12 jurors and four alternates has been seated in Las Vegas and opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday, marking the first trial in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing.
- Prosecutors plan to call roughly 35 to 45 witnesses and will center their case on Davis’s 2019 memoir and earlier recorded interviews to show he ordered the retaliatory attack and supplied the gun.
- There is no recovered weapon or white Cadillac tied to the shooting and three other men alleged to have been in the car have died, so the trial will hinge on witness credibility and admissions rather than new physical evidence.
- Davis has pleaded not guilty and faces a potential life sentence if jurors convict him under Nevada law for organizing or facilitating a murder even if he did not fire the gun.
- Beyond legal stakes for Davis, the trial carries deep cultural significance for fans and the music community and could reshape public understanding of a decades-old, unresolved killing.