A Nevada judge ruled Tuesday that the recording of an interview of a man accused of murder Tupac Shakur provided to the police in 2008 may be used in an upcoming trial.Judge Carli Kierny found the interview admissible in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 10.Davis, 63, is charged with murdering Shakur in 1996 and could face life in prison without parole if convicted.
About The case of Tupac Shakur’s death
The rapper’s death is considered one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States. Shakur was killed Sept. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas. He and Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight were sitting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them near the Las Vegas Strip, and a gunshot went off. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. Knight escaped with minor injuries.Three others were with Davis in the Cadillac, including his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, but Davis is the only one still alive. None of the others were charged with Shakur’s murder before his death.
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The case went cold until Davis began speaking publicly about it, including in a book he wrote where he said he was in the Cadillac and provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur.Attorney Michael Sanft said the 2008 interview Davis gave law enforcement officials was supposed to be confidential, and that investigators told him in detail that the interview should not be used against him.
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Prosecutors said there was no reason to waive the hearing in the case, which is expected to last about four weeks.The interviews were used in Los Angeles Detective Greg Kading’s book “Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.” Portions of the footage have also been played in documentaries, including the recent documentary “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.”
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In his statement, Davis said he got a gun from a friend and threw it into the back seat of the Cadillac but did not say who fired the shots.In a 2008 interview, Davis describes how he and his crew saw Shakur that night and ride next to them, and said that Anderson “took them out.” Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s murder at the time, and died two years later in an unrelated shooting in Compton, California.