Overview
- Jury selection opened Monday, August 10, 2026, in Clark County, Nevada, starting a trial expected to run about a month to decide Davis’s criminal responsibility.
- Davis, 63, faces a Nevada charge that he aided or organized a murder to benefit a gang; prosecutors say he provided the Glock and arranged the September 7, 1996, retaliatory shooting but do not accuse him of pulling the trigger.
- The prosecution’s case rests largely on Davis’s own public statements over the years and his 2019 memoir, while Davis’s defense denies he wrote the book and says he was not in Las Vegas that night.
- Prosecutors plan to call roughly 35 to 45 witnesses, including Marion 'Suge' Knight, former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, then-officer Joe Lombardo and Reggie Wright Jr., even as missing physical evidence and deaths of key actors complicate the facts.
- The trial reopens a long-cold homicide tied to 1990s gang and East/West hip-hop tensions and runs alongside a separate civil suit by Tupac’s family, and its outcome could affect how old public admissions and memoirs are used in other stalled cases.