Overview
- The criminal trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis began with jury selection on Monday, Aug. 10, and is expected to last about a month.
- Prosecutors plan to use Davis’s 2019 memoir, a 2008 police interview, and a 2023 jailhouse call in which he admitted writing the book to support their claim that he orchestrated the shooting.
- No firearm or the white Cadillac tied to the attack was ever recovered and several people who were in the Cadillac that night have died, so the case does not hinge on identifying the triggerman.
- Under Nevada law prosecutors can convict an organizer or aider as a principal, and they intend to call roughly 35 to 45 witnesses including people close to both crews and former officials.
- Tupac’s family has filed a separate wrongful-death suit seeking broader answers, and the trial will revisit the 1990s East Coast–West Coast label and gang ties that prosecutors say provide motive.