Suspect in Tupac Shakur Killing Seeks Trial Delay Over New Witnesses

Legal professionals for the person suspected of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur wish to lengthen after generation’s trial, pronouncing extra date is wanted for investigative paintings to assure that Duane “Keffe D” Davis will get a good trial.

The movement filed Friday (Feb. 14) in a Nevada courtroom supplies perception into Davis’ protection, noting {that a} non-public investigator has recognized eyewitnesses who can testify that he used to be now not on the scene of the 1996 taking pictures, nor used to be he in Las Vegas on the date.

The movement additionally means that any individual else could have orchestrated the taking pictures and that eyewitnesses who may testify at the topic are being interviewed.

The protection crew stated in a commentary that the unused traits and the want to interview key eyewitnesses necessitate a lengthen. A listening to used to be scheduled Tuesday to speak about the timing of the trial, recently poised to start out in March.

“This case involves decades-old allegations, and with every new piece of evidence, it becomes increasingly clear that critical facts have yet to be fully examined,” stated legal professional Carl Arnold, who’s prominent Davis’ protection.

At the night time of Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur used to be in a BMW being pushed via Demise Row Information founder Marion “Suge” Knight. They have been ready at a crimson shiny when a white Cadillac pulled up after to them and gunfire erupted.

Davis, an ex-gang chief who’s accused of orchestrating Shakur’s killing akin the Las Vegas Strip, has pleaded now not to blame to first-degree homicide and has been jailed since his September 2023 arrest.

Lengthy identified to investigators as one in all 4 suspects recognized early within the investigation, he’s the one one to be charged.

Arnold has argued that Davis by no means must were charged on account of immunity assurances that Davis says he reached years in the past with federal and native prosecutors future residing in California.

Prosecutors have stated any immunity oath used to be restricted and they’ve robust proof in opposition to Davis, together with his personal accounts of the taking pictures within the tell-all memoir Compton Side road Legend.

Davis has said in interviews and within the memoir that he supplied the gun old within the drive-by taking pictures and that he used to be within the automotive. However his courtroom filings say his descriptions lately of orchestrating the taking pictures have been “done for entertainment purposes and to make money.”

Protection lawyers additionally say they’ve observer data indicating that Shakur used to be in solid status upcoming the taking pictures and that he died all at once upcoming being hospitalized for a era. They have been consulting scientific and forensic professionals to judge doable spare reasons of dying.