@meghannmcuniff: Las Vegas lawyer Michael Sanft is defending Duane "Keffe D" Davis in his murder trial over Tupac Shakur 1996 fatal shooting. (note: I will spell Keffe as Keefe from here on out because that’s how he’s spelling it.) Sanft told jurors in his opening statement today (Monday, August 17) that Davis has repeatedly exaggerated his involvement in the shooting when in reality, "There are no facts to point to Keffe. Not one." "You're going to hear about this over and over and over again. No facts like the microphone in your hand or the pad of paper that you have that you write on," Sanft said. Sanft said Detective Long was the lead investigaor from 2002 to 217 and "had been one of the first to arrive on scene." He said Long "encountered some challenges in this case" and "had to hide the case file with Metro because people were still accessing the file in Metro, and they weren't authorized to do so, so they changed the case number so that people couldn't find the file." "In addition to that, what you're going to learn is LAPD reached out to them, called them up, and say, 'Hey, Detective Long, we have the gun, and we tested it, and matches back to what you're looking for in terms of the weapon that killed Tupac Shakur,'" Sanft said. "Detective Long goes to LAPD, gets the gun, transports it back, gets tested, and it comes out as not a match." LAPD gave them "a fake gun to test you out." "This is the level of I don't know how to put it that was going on during this time period between Metro, LAPD and Compton," Sanft said. This is what's happening during this time period." You can watch Sanft's entire 30-minute opening statement on my YouTube channel and Facebook page. You can watch the trial live every day on my YouTube channel. #law #crime #rap

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Tuesday 18 August 2026 00:35:53 GMT