Man charged in Tupac Shakur’s murder seeks evidence dismissal from case
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Lawyers for a Las Vegas man accused of killing rap legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 claim in a new motion that authorities conducted an “illegal” nighttime search of the former gang leader’s home based on false information.
Lawyers for Duane “Keffe D” Davis filed a petition in Clark County District Court in Nevada on Monday 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 go to trial in August.
Robert Draskovich and William Brown argued 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 conviction was certain.” [25] was old and now he [60]”He is a retired cancer patient of about 10 years who has been living quietly in the same house in Henderson for nearly a decade.” KLAS-TV.
LAWYERS OF SUSPECT TUPAC SHAKUR MURDERER CLAIM THAT HIS WORDS ARE TWISTED AND WANT HIM TO BE RELEASED FROM PRISON
Duane Davis (left) looks back during a hearing on allegations of juror misconduct in a jailhouse battery case at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on July 2. (AP, Pool, File via LE Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
“Second, the court ignored the case-specific urgency or security concerns that Nevada law requires to justify night searches and instead adopted general security theories that would apply to searches of virtually any home,” the attorneys wrote. he added.
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“None of this was mentioned to the court,” the lawyers said in the motion. “As a result, the court authorized the nighttime search based on a portrait of Davis that bore little resemblance to reality—in other words, a clearly erroneous factual determination.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.
Duane “Keefe D” Davis arrives in a Las Vegas courtroom on Oct. 19, 2023, for his arraignment on murder charges in the death of rapper Tupac Shakur. (John Locher/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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The department declined to comment to The Associated Press on Friday but said at the time of the arrest warrant that if Davis barricaded himself in the home, a nighttime search would allow them to surround his home and evacuate residents more safely.
Davis pleaded not guilty to murder and requested the charges against him be dropped in November.
Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
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“Think of it this way: Shakur’s murder was essentially the entertainment world’s JFK assassination — endlessly dissected, mythologized, monetized — so it’s not hard to understand why someone in Davis’ position would falsely place himself at the center of it all for personal gain,” his lawyers wrote in a denied petition to the Nevada Supreme Court. he said.
Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996 and remained unsolved for decades until Davis’ arrest in 2023.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
