Key Highlights
- Duane "Keffe D" Davis’s lawyers filed a motion Monday with the Clark County District Court in Nevada to toss out evidence collected during a search conducted by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Davis was arrested in 2023 for Shakur’s murder and is expected to stand trial next August.
- Robert Draskovich and William Brown claim in the motion that a judge relied on a "misleading portrait" of Davis that portrayed him as a gang leader, "when in fact his drug convictions were [25] years old, and he was now a [60]-year-old retired cancer survivor that had lived quietly in the same Henderson home for nearly a decade," the motion said, according to KLAS-TV.
- LAWYERS FOR SUSPECTED TUPAC SHAKUR KILLER CLAIM HIS WORDS WERE TWISTED, WANT HIM RELEASED FROM JAIL Duane Davis, left, looks back during a hearing on claims of juror misconduct in his jailhouse battery case at the Regional Justice Center, July 2, in Las Vegas.
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- Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool, File) "Second, the court overlooked the case-specific urgency or safety concerns Nevada law requires to justify nighttime searches, accepting instead generic safety theories that would apply to virtually any search of any home," the lawyers added. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER "The court wasn’t told any of this," the lawyers argued in the motion.
