Overview
- Both sides rested Thursday after nine days of testimony and the court set closing arguments for Monday before the jury begins deliberations.
- Prosecutors built their case largely on hours of Davis’s own recorded interviews, jail calls and his 2019 memoir in which he describes being in the white Cadillac and passing a gun.
- The defense called three witnesses, highlighted the absence of DNA, fingerprints and a recovered murder weapon, and opted not to put Duane “Keffe D” Davis on the stand.
- Retired detective Dan Long testified he could not independently verify key details Davis gave in a 2009 interview and said prosecutors told him to “stand down” when he planned to seek an arrest then.
- Under Nevada law a person who organized or supplied a weapon can be convicted as a principal, Davis faces life if convicted, and the case could produce the first legal resolution in Tupac Shakur’s nearly 30-year-old killing.