Tupac Murder Trial: Cans the Prosecution Use the Defendant's Words Against Him?
Jurors weighed decades-old recordings and hotel records as prosecutors and defense sparred over whether Davis’s statements were confession or fiction.
- A jury completed the first week of the murder trial for Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, the only person charged in the 1996 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, determining whether Davis is a serial liar or killer.
- Prosecutors are using secret interviews from 1998, only two years after Shakur was shot, in which Davis claimed to have arranged the murder. Davis's 'admittedly big mouth' led him to provide information to police to minimize his legal damage.
- Defense attorney Michael Sanft told jurors Davis's frequent comments about involvement were a 'nearly two-decades-long work of fiction.' Sanft argued the passage of time is his client's best friend, especially since police failed to write formal reports on key events.
- Tupac Shakur's stepbrother Mopreme Shakur and sister Sekyiwa 'Set' Shakur attended daily, occasionally overwhelmed by testimony. Podcaster Kathy Kenzora documented proceedings, which resurrected a 'flamboyant and violent time in music history' for a modern audience.
- The trial revisits the bloody rap rivalry between East Coast and West Coast that claimed Christopher Wallace, known as 'The Notorious B.I.G.,' six months after Shakur's death. Modern infrastructure now masks the Las Vegas shooting site from 1996.
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By Andy Rose, CNN Under a cover that protected them from the desert sun—which raises temperatures to almost 43 °C (110 °F)—tourists in Las Vegas slithered over Fremont Street. In a courtroom three blocks away, lawyer Michael Sanft performed his own stunt The post Gangs, rap rivalries and old recordings mark the first week of the trial for the murder of Tupaceared first on KVIA.
Tupac trial week wrap-up
Under a canopy shielding them from the desert sun that pushes temperatures to nearly 110 degrees, Las Vegas tourists rode zip lines down Fremont Street. In a courtroom three blocks away, attorney Michael Sanft was performing his own high-wire act.
Tupac murder trial: Cans the prosecution use the defendant's words against him?
Who killed Tupac Shakur? Three decades after the rap superstar was murdered in Nevada, a trial in Las Vegas intends to answer that question. 63-year-old Duane Davis is accused of orchestrating the drive-by killing. Kim Langtree, lecturer in Law and the University of Salford in the UK, has been following the case closely. She delivers her analysis of the case’s latest developments.
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