Jurors Begin Deliberating Duane Davis in 1996 Tupac Shakur Murder Trial
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Updated · BreakingNews.ie · Sep 1
Jurors Begin Deliberating Duane Davis in 1996 Tupac Shakur Murder Trial
3 articles · Updated · BreakingNews.ie · Sep 1
Summary
A 16-person jury began weighing Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ fate after closing arguments in the first-degree murder trial over Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Las Vegas killing.
Prosecutors said Davis’ own interviews and memoir repeatedly placed him inside the white Cadillac and showed he supplied the gun and ordered the retaliatory attack after his nephew was beaten.
Binu Palal argued the shooting was premeditated, saying the group searched for Shakur, then made a U-turn when they spotted his car, making Davis liable even if he was not the gunman.
Davis, 63, pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer called the prosecution’s account fiction, arguing Davis’ shifting stories were not backed by independent evidence.
The case caps nearly 30 years without charges in Shakur’s death; Davis is the only person ever charged and the only surviving occupant of the Cadillac.