Duane "Keffe D" Davis Fails to Dismiss Tupac Shakur Murder Case Despite Claims of Immunity
The only suspect charged in the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, has lost his attempt to dismiss the case against him. A Clark County District Court judge ruled that Davis failed to provide evidence of any immunity agreements, stating that the state of Nevada has never offered him such a deal. Davis, now 61, argued that he should not have been charged due to supposed prior agreements with authorities.
During a recent hearing, Davis and his attorney, Carl Arnold, claimed that the 27-year delay in prosecution constituted an egregious violation of Davis’s constitutional rights. However, prosecutors maintained that Davis had not shown proof of immunity despite interviews conducted in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Davis has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
The trial is scheduled to commence on March 17, where evidence against Davis includes his own admissions of orchestrating the shooting in his memoir. The prosecution argues the evidence is compelling, as it links Davis, who was part of a gang and is accused of providing a handgun used in the shooting, to the crime that took Shakur's life just a week after the incident.
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