Duane Keith Davis Trial Heads to Jury in 1996 Tupac Killing as Closings Set for Monday
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 29
Duane Keith Davis Trial Heads to Jury in 1996 Tupac Killing as Closings Set for Monday
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 29
Summary
Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday after prosecutors and Duane Keith Davis’s defense both finished their cases earlier than expected in Las Vegas.
Jurors repeatedly heard Davis’s own recorded accounts, including a 2008 proffer interview in which he said he was in the white Cadillac and passed the gun to the back seat before shots were fired.
Prosecutors say the Sept. 7, 1996 attack was retaliation after Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight assaulted Davis’s nephew, Orlando Anderson, following the Mike Tyson fight.
Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to murder with use of a deadly weapon; he is accused of obtaining the gun and orchestrating the shooting, not pulling the trigger.
The case, revived in part by Davis’s 2019 memoir and long-delayed testimony, is now nearing a jury decision nearly 30 years after Shakur’s death.