Overview
- Jury selection began Monday in Clark County District Court and the trial is expected to run several weeks with seating in the main courtroom decided by a daily lottery.
- Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement while prosecutors say he ordered the attack and provided the gun though he did not fire it.
- A judge has admitted large swaths of Davis’s 2019 memoir and his 2008 police interview as evidence, which prosecutors say revived the decades‑cold case and form the centerpiece of their proof.
- The defense disputes authorship and credibility of the memoir and points to the lack of a recovered weapon and that most other in‑car participants are dead, leaving credibility fights likely to shape the trial.
- The case carries heavy human stakes for Shakur’s family, could prompt further civil suits to identify alleged co‑conspirators, and will hinge on testimony from surviving witnesses and grand‑jury transcripts rather than physical evidence.