LAS VEGAS (AP) — The one suspect ever to be charged within the Nineties killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas has misplaced a bid to have his homicide case dismissed.
Clark County District Court docket Decide Carli Kierny mentioned in a choice issued Tuesday that Duane “Keffe D” Davis had supplied no proof of any immunity offers and that “the state of Nevada has never offered” him a deal.
Davis and his lawyer had argued that he by no means ought to have been charged with homicide due to immunity agreements he says he reached years in the past with federal and native authorities. Legal professional Carl Arnold mentioned the indictment towards his 61-year-old consumer is an “egregious” violation of his constitutional rights due to a 27-year delay in prosecution.
Arnold mentioned after the listening to that they may resolve within the coming days if they may enchantment the decide’s resolution to the state Supreme Court docket.
Prosecutors mentioned Davis has supplied no proof that he was granted immunity by authorities who interviewed him in 1998 and within the early 2000s whereas he was nonetheless dwelling in California.
Davis’ trial in Las Vegas is at present scheduled for March 17. He has pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide.
Prosecutors have mentioned the proof towards Davis is powerful, together with his personal accounts of the 1996 taking pictures in his tell-all memoir. Davis, an ex-gang chief, is accused of orchestrating the taking pictures close to the Las Vegas Strip that killed Shakur shortly after a brawl at a on line casino involving Shakur and Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.
Davis is initially from Compton, California. He was arrested in September 2023 in his neighborhood close to Las Vegas.
In interviews and his 2019 memoir that described his life as a frontrunner of a Crips gang sect in Compton, Davis mentioned he obtained a .40-caliber handgun and handed it to Anderson within the again seat of a automobile from which, he and authorities mentioned, photographs had been fired at Shakur in one other automobile.
Shakur died every week later. He was 25.
Anderson, who died in 1998 in a taking pictures in Compton, had denied involvement in Shakur’s killing. Two different males within the automobile with Anderson and Davis are additionally lifeless.
