Overview
- Jury selection for Duane “Keffe D” Davis is scheduled to begin Monday, Aug. 10, with the trial expected to run about four weeks and Davis remaining jailed after pleading not guilty.
- A judge recently ruled that prosecutors may introduce Davis’s recorded 2008 police interview and his 2019 memoir, decisions prosecutors say let them rely on his own accounts to link him to the 1996 drive-by that killed Tupac Shakur.
- Clark County prosecutors filed a supplemental witness list naming more than 200 potential witnesses, including Marion “Suge” Knight, who was in the BMW with Tupac and is the only surviving direct eyewitness from that vehicle.
- Investigators never recovered the white Cadillac used in the shooting or the firearm, so the case will hinge on witness testimony, grand jury transcripts and Davis’s public statements rather than new physical evidence.
- Prosecutors allege Davis acted as the “shot caller” and supplied the weapon under Nevada law that lets organizers be charged as principals, a theory that, if accepted by jurors, could bring life without parole and will test how decades-old statements and conflicting accounts are weighed in court.