@meghannmcuniff: Defense lawyer Michael Sanft told jurors today the case against Duane "Keffe D" Davis for Tupac Shakur's murder is based rested on fiction and publicity stunts that aren't corroborated by other evidence. Sanft said Davis lied in interviews that prosecutors argue are confessions, including in documentaries, on YouTube and in his 2019 memoir, "Compton Street Legend." Prosecutors have phone records, official hotel bills or forensic evidence placing Davis in Las Vegas or inside the white Cadillac from which witnesses say the shots were fired on Sept. 7, 1996. Sanft spoke for an hour and 50 minutes. You can watch his entire argument on my YouTube channel. The jury began deliberating at 1:50 p.m. and were still deliberating as of 4:45 p.m. in Las Vegas. Davis is accused of organizing Tupac's murder as part of a feud between the South Side Crips and the Mob Piru gang, which was tied to the Bloods, and as retaliation for Shakur attacking Orlando Anderson earlier in the night at the MGM Grand casino in connection with a gang brawl at the Lakewood Mall in California weeks earlier. Davis told police Sean Puffy Combs offered $1 million for Shakur's murder during a meeting at Greenblatt's deli on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, but he never received it. Davis, 63, has been in jail since his arrest on Sept. 29, 2023. He's charged in Nevada's 8th Judicial District in Las Vegas with one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang.

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Monday 31 August 2026 23:50:03 GMT