Aug. 24, 2026
Day 5 | The Trial of Keffe D: Who Killed Tupac?
Day 5 of the Duane “Keffe D” Davis Trial: The Last Photo, the Documentary Interviews, and Davis’s Own Words
On Day 5 of the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, charged in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, the prosecution continued building its case with eyewitness testimony, documentary filmmakers, and more of Davis’s recorded statements to police.
The day opened with Leonard Jefferson, the man who took what is widely regarded as the last known photograph of Tupac Shakur alive. Jefferson testified that he was in Las Vegas for the Mike Tyson fight, sold his tickets in the MGM Grand lobby, and later found himself stopped at a red light next to the BMW carrying Tupac and Suge Knight. He snapped a 35mm photo of the pair before following the convoy onto Flamingo Road. Moments later he heard gunfire, saw the BMW make a U-turn, and watched as Suge Knight emerged yelling that “Pac is shot.” Jefferson later returned to the scene at a detective’s request and turned over the film. He pushed back against online conspiracy theories claiming he staged the famous image.
Next on the stand was Mario Diaz, showrunner and director of the BET docuseries Death Row Chronicles. Diaz detailed two formal interviews he conducted with Davis in 2017, confirmed Davis was paid for his participation, and walked the jury through how the series incorporated portions of Davis’s earlier recorded statements to investigators. He testified that the interviews were unscripted and that no questions were provided in advance.
Prosecutors then played extended audio from a voluntary September 2009 police interview in which Davis described the night of the shooting in detail. In the recording, Davis discusses obtaining a gun (described as a .40-caliber Glock) from Eric “Zip” Martin, handing it off inside the white Cadillac, and his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson ultimately firing the shots. He also referenced Sean “Diddy” Combs and expressed regret, saying he wished the events had never happened and that meeting Combs had “messed up” his life.
The day closed with testimony from filmmaker Michael Dorsey, a technical consultant on Death Row Chronicles and producer connected to the Murder Rap project. Dorsey discussed his long investigation into the case, his role advising on the 2017 interviews with Davis, and the audio recordings and transcripts he later provided under subpoena.
Timestamps:
00:24 Day Five Testimony Begins
07:50 Documentary Clips Hit the Jury
11:52 Dorsey Explains the Film
16:56 Keefe D’s 2009 Police Interview
23:15 The Payoff Claims
34:09 Prosecutor Under the Microscope
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On Day 5 of the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, charged in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, the prosecution continued building its case with eyewitness testimony, documentary filmmakers, and more of Davis’s recorded statements to police.
The day opened with Leonard Jefferson, the man who took what is widely regarded as the last known photograph of Tupac Shakur alive. Jefferson testified that he was in Las Vegas for the Mike Tyson fight, sold his tickets in the MGM Grand lobby, and later found himself stopped at a red light next to the BMW carrying Tupac and Suge Knight. He snapped a 35mm photo of the pair before following the convoy onto Flamingo Road. Moments later he heard gunfire, saw the BMW make a U-turn, and watched as Suge Knight emerged yelling that “Pac is shot.” Jefferson later returned to the scene at a detective’s request and turned over the film. He pushed back against online conspiracy theories claiming he staged the famous image.
Next on the stand was Mario Diaz, showrunner and director of the BET docuseries Death Row Chronicles. Diaz detailed two formal interviews he conducted with Davis in 2017, confirmed Davis was paid for his participation, and walked the jury through how the series incorporated portions of Davis’s earlier recorded statements to investigators. He testified that the interviews were unscripted and that no questions were provided in advance.
Prosecutors then played extended audio from a voluntary September 2009 police interview in which Davis described the night of the shooting in detail. In the recording, Davis discusses obtaining a gun (described as a .40-caliber Glock) from Eric “Zip” Martin, handing it off inside the white Cadillac, and his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson ultimately firing the shots. He also referenced Sean “Diddy” Combs and expressed regret, saying he wished the events had never happened and that meeting Combs had “messed up” his life.
The day closed with testimony from filmmaker Michael Dorsey, a technical consultant on Death Row Chronicles and producer connected to the Murder Rap project. Dorsey discussed his long investigation into the case, his role advising on the 2017 interviews with Davis, and the audio recordings and transcripts he later provided under subpoena.
Timestamps:
00:24 Day Five Testimony Begins
07:50 Documentary Clips Hit the Jury
11:52 Dorsey Explains the Film
16:56 Keefe D’s 2009 Police Interview
23:15 The Payoff Claims
34:09 Prosecutor Under the Microscope
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Hey, everyone, welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.
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I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and of course we are
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deep into the KFD trial. Day five occurred on Friday.
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We're going to cover that. If you're not caught up,
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go listen to day's one through four of this podcast
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so you can be caught up. Of course, KEFD is
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standing accused of orchestrating the September seventh, nineteen ninety six
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drive by shitting that killed Tupac Shakur and wounded sug
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Night on the Las Vegas Strip. Now, by the end
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of the first full week of testimony, more than a
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witnesses had taken the stand. On Friday, which was day five,
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the prosecution called its sixteenth witness, a guy by the
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name of Leonard Jefferson. Now Jefferson, he's not a gang member,
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he's not a detective, he's not a former Death Row insider.
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He's a man who, by a pure chance, took what
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is widely accepted as the last photograph of Tupac Shakur alive.
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And I'm sure if you followed Tupac and his death
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and the occurrences of that, you've seen this picture. It
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was snapped at a red light just minutes before the gunfire.
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He's in the passenger seat, he's looking at the camera
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and Suge Night is in the driver's seat. So he
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kind of told the story of what led up to this,
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and he said he drove up from the Los Angeles
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area that weekend, specifically for the Mike Tyson Bruce Selden
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heavyweight fight at the MGM Grand. He said he had tickets,
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but he never used them, and the reason for that
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was in the lobby of the Monte Carlow, he sold
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those tickets because a guy walked up to him. He said,
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we had planned on going to the fight, but a
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guy walked up to him and said, Hey, I will
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give you twenty five hundred dollars for year two tickets.
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So he was like, screw that. He said, instead of
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watching that fight, he was going to be people watching,
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and that's when he spotted Tupac and the Death Row
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entourage moving through the hotel. Now, it was interesting that
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Jefferson wasn't a stranger back in Los Angeles. He was
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a car salesman and he had previously sold vehicles to
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people connected with Death Row Records, and he had actually
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been introduced to Tupac, and they had brief conversations about
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cars in the past, so they didn't know each other,
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but they knew each other well enough that if they
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saw each other and made eye contact, Tupac would know, hey,
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I know that guy, and vice versa. Now, later that night, Jefferson,
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after he sees them, he doesn't approach them or anything.
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Tupac and is entourage. He gets in his car and
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he is going to pick up California Pizza Kitchen. He
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was hungry, leaves this hotel, he said. He stopped at
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a red light on Las Vegas Boulevard and next to him,
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who pulls up but a black BMW with sug Knight
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behind the wheel and Tupac in the passenger seat. So,
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he said, he rolls down the window and he leans
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over and he says, hey, what up. Pot Tupac, he said,
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did a double take and immediately upon seeing him, recognizes him,
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and he just says, hey, man, what up. Jefferson then
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asked where they were headed, and Tupac said they were
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going to the six six two club, and he said,
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hey man, why don't you follow us? Jefferson's response was
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all right, cool, he said, hey, man, let me get
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a picture real quick, and he hit a camera. These
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aren't the cell phones of today where you take a
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picture from your cellphone. This he was literally a thirty
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five millimeter camera that you have to wind the film back,
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take a picture, and then wind it again. That's what
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he had. He snaps the picture, the light turns green,
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and the BMW pulls away with Jefferson following a few
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cars behind them. And there was a comical statement that
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he made after that, and he said, immediately, I called
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California Pizza Kitchen and cancel my order because he's going
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to party with Tupac and the crew now, right. So
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he gets on the phone. He's actually talking to California
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Pizza Kitchen and he said he hears pop pop, pop pop.
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He said he knew immediately it was gunshots. And he
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said when he looked up, the cars in the caravan
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ahead of him had stopped. He said, people were scrambling
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around the BMW. He saw them struggling with the door
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and then pulling Tupac out of the passenger's side. He
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said he then noticed bike officers arriving fast and guns
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drawn very quickly. A the gun is drawn on him.
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He's ordered out of his vehicle at gunpoint, and he's
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detained briefly, he said. He was eventually released and went
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back to his hotel. He said a short time later
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an officer located him at his hotel and brought him
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back to the scene, telling him quote they had messed up.
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Jefferson was in photographed with other people near the scene
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that night. He told the police that he had taken
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the picture of Tupac and Shug a few minutes before
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the shooting. So the police said, well, we need to
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get that film. He was kind enough to give that
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to him, and he did say that they developed the
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film and then returned the film back to him, and
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that's when he realized, Man, I've got the last picture
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of Tupac alive. So on the stand, Prosecutor Palau he
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walked Jefferson through that timeline, the FEDO itself, the locations
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on the map, and Jefferson also confirmed that he did
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not see the shooter or the white cattle that pulled
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alongside of Tupac and Shug when the shooting rang out.
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He said his vantage point was actually behind vehicles that
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were in the death Row caravan. So at that point,
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the defense takes over and they cross examined him. It's
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very brief. They noted that the photo that he had
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taken of Tupac, that last photo of him alive, had
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been licensed and used in books over the years, and
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that Jefferson had given permission. And the reason they bring
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this up, there's nothing wrong with doing that. I assuming
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that what they're trying to do is say, hey, this
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guy's trying to make money on Tupac's death because people
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that have used that photo. Obviously he gets a little
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bit change on that. So Jefferson also addressed the conspiracy
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theories that have swirled online for years. Absolutely ridiculous. People
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claimed that this was a big set up by this
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guy and it's because he's in the film industry now
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and they say all of this was set up and
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Tupac's still alive and this guy's behind it. Absolutely ridiculous.
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He did ask a little bit of that, and of
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course this guy said the same thing. I just told you.
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It's totally absurd. A jury did question him and asked
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whether he remembered the name of the detective who spoke
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to him when he was brought back to the scene,
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and Jefferson answered Kevin Manning, not sure why that matters,
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but they wanted to know, and that was essentially the
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end of his testimony. It was clean, it was direct.
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There were no major like fireworks or anything with it.
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But it was pretty powerful because it was a civilian
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who knew Tupac casually from the car business in la
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and who just happened to be at that red light
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at the right moment, and who captured the final image
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of the rapper before bullets flew on Flamingo Road in
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Las Vegas. So he gets dismissed from the stand and
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then the prosecution calls it's seventeenth witness, a guy by
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the name of Mario Diaz. Now Diaz also not gang member,
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also not a detective, and he's not even an eye
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witness to the shooting. He's actually a documentary director. In
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twenty seventeen, he was brought on to a project that
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became a six part BEET series known as Death Row Chronicles.
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I watched the series. It was really good and it
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covers the rise and fall of death Row records. He
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had some pretty high profile consultants on that, a former
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LAPD detective Greg Cating, who is the one that wrote
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the book that I was telling you about in days
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three and four of this series. He was included in
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that documentary. KEEVD was included in that documentary. Suge Knight
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was included in that documentary. So DIZ he conducted a
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couple of formal on camera interviews with KEVD as part
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of this series, and each of those interviews ran about
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two hours. They were done in a studio, cameras of
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course rolling and DZ said the interviews were not screw now.
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He also said he didn't provide questions in advance to KEFD.
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He said, this was all kind of off the cuff.
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He knew what he wanted to ask, but he didn't
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have any roles that he had to follow with KVD
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on what he could ask. And so at that point,
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the jury gets played the clips from these two particular interviews,
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and then at that point they also see a clip
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of a sizzlerel, which, if y'all don't know what a
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sizzlerell is, it's a promotion. It's like a movie trailer
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that gets people fired up to watch a documentary. In
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that siesle rel, KEFD appears and he says words that
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I would say now have become central to the prosecution's case,
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one of those being quote, I'm the only one alive
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who can really tell you the story about Tupac. I
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got cancer and I got nothing else to lose now.
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Clips from episodes five and six, the ones that dig
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deep into the Tupac murder investigation, were also shown and
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in In those segments, the production alternated between twenty seventeen
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interviews with KEFD in audio from kvd's two thousand and
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eight profit interview with law enforcement, and DS testified that
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he had made the decision to intercut the two sources
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himself because he wanted as complete a picture as possible.
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They did ask him about the money that KFD got paid.
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DS said he couldn't remember the exact amount, but it
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was between ten thousand and twenty thousand dollars to participate,
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and then the defense they cross examined DS on how
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the project got together, and I kind of bullet pointed
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some of the questions if they asked him. One of
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those was did you hand him the check before interviews?
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The answer was no. Another question was how did the
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production obtain the two thousand and eight profit recording, because
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that was part of the documentary, and he answered it
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was given to me by either Mike Dorsey or Greg Kating.
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I can't remember which, and to my knowledge it was
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Greg Kating because he was secretly recording that two thousand
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and eight profer meeting. That's to my knowledge. I'm not
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one hundred percent positive on that, but I'm ninety nine
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percent positive. Another question was did Dwayne Davis have any
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rights to approve or edit what went into the series?
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He responded no to that. Another question was was the
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profher used to compare or confirm the story he was
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telling for TV? The answer to that was yes, and
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after that he gets excused. He was on the stand
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for about an hour, so with his testimony, the jury
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got to see and hear keithy D years after the
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shooting in an interview, saying he was the only living
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person who could tell the story because he had nothing
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left to lose. Right, that's pretty damning for Keefd. The
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prosecution then called it's eighteenth witness a guy by the
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name of Michael Dorsey. He's a true crime special list
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and a documentary producer. He was also involved in this
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six part documentary that was put out by Beet. He
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told the journey. He had been making documentaries for about
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twenty five years, primarily focusing on true crime, and he
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said around late twenty twelve, Greg Kating's book Murder Rap
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had been out for about a year. Dorsey said he
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read articles that included quotes from kvd's two thousand and
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eight Profer interview and that everything sounded legitimate to him,
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So he said, I reached out to Kating and asked
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him if he wanted to make a documentary, and Kating
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said yes. Dorsey said he spent more than two years
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researching and producing the film Murder Rap Inside the Biggie
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and Tupac murders, and he said Kating was the primary
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guide through the story. Bud Dorsey insisted on independent verification.
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He wouldn't just rely on Kating, he said, and so,
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he said, Kating turned over digital copies of all the
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LAPD case files on both the Tupac and Biggie investigations
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so Dorrisey could check out the claims for himself that
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Caving was making. He said he also read Kathy Scott's
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earlier book known as the Killing of Tupac Shakur, and
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he also watched extensive news covers so he was covering
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his bases there, and he said his goal was to
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get to the truth and tell the public a story
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that he knew was factual. He said investigators essentially solved
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the murder, while the wider world still treated it as
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an unsolved mystery. Dorsey was also candid about the risk involved.
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He said he worried about his personal safety because, I mean,
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let's face it, he was accusing a member of a
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violent street gang of murder. He said he also worried
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about the financial and legal risk of implicating Sean Puffy Combs,
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who at the time was still a relatively clean public
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image type person. He was on his way to becoming
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a billionaire, and he was a little worried about that.
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He said he was ever sued, however, He said Universal
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Music sent a routine note about fair use on a
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Tupac diss track that he used in the documentary, and
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he said his lawyers had already cleared it. He said
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Puffy's high power attorney sent a letter to Apple TV,
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which was one of the distributors of this documentary, calling
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the film defamatory and demanding it be pulled within five
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business days. However, Apple left the decision to producers and
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they kept it up and he said that was the
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last he heard of it or they heard of it.
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will make threats. They know they can't do anything about
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it because you're not doing anything wrong, but they're trying
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to scare you into just taking something down when they
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