Overview
- Jurors on Thursday were played a 2008 recorded LAPD interview in which Duane “Keffe D” Davis said his nephew Orlando Anderson fired the shots that hit Tupac Shakur, and the transcript of that audio was shown in court.
- Prosecutors told the court they plan to present a multi‑hour video exhibit reported to be about five hours long as part of a case built largely on Davis’s interviews, podcast remarks and his 2019 memoir.
- Defense attorneys have urged jurors to reject those public statements as unreliable or self‑serving, urging them to consider the lack of independent physical corroboration such as a recovered gun or the Cadillac.
- Witness testimony this week included retired investigators and former associates who described Davis’s differing 1998 and 2008 accounts, and a Death Row witness on the stand said he was hostile and reluctant to identify participants.
- With three other men the prosecution ties to the Cadillac dead and Nevada law allowing conviction of an organizer who supplied a weapon, the trial turns on credibility and could reshape long‑running theories about who ordered the attack.