Day One | The Trial of Keffe D: Who Killed Tupac?
Day One of Trial Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip, the first person ever charged in his murder finally faced a jury. On the opening day of the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, prosecutors painted a clear...
Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip, the first person ever charged in his murder finally faced a jury.
On the opening day of the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, prosecutors painted a clear picture of revenge. They told jurors that Davis, a former South Side Compton Crips leader, did not pull the trigger—but orchestrated the entire drive-by that killed the 25-year-old rap icon on September 7, 1996. Just hours after Tupac and members of his Death Row entourage beat Davis’s nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, in the lobby of the MGM Grand following a Mike Tyson fight, prosecutors say Davis got a .40-caliber Glock, assembled a crew in a white Cadillac, and made sure the shooters were armed and ready.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told the jury the state’s case rests heavily on Davis’s own words—from a secret 2008 interview with investigators, later statements, and his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend—in which he described being in the front passenger seat, passing the gun to the back, and watching the shots ring out. “Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation for the beating of his nephew,” Palal said. “And remarkably, you will learn that from Duane Davis himself.”
Defense attorney Michael Sanft hit back hard, calling his own client “full of crap” and telling jurors Davis’s long history of self-incriminating stories was just that—stories told for attention and money. “There’s no facts,” Sanft argued. The first witnesses took the stand, including a former Las Vegas Metro officer who rode in the ambulance with a still-conscious Tupac and heard the rapper refuse to name his attackers, saying something to the effect of “we’ll take care of it.” Thirty years of silence, street codes, and unanswered questions collided in a Las Vegas courtroom.
Jim Chapman breaks down everything we learned in day one of this trial, 30 years in the making.
Timestamps:
01:21 Tupac’s Rise to Fame
04:44 Legal Troubles and Death
07:41 Suge Knight’s Influence
09:48 Trial Opening Statements
20:50 Witnesses Place Tupac There
27:25 Early Investigation Details
31:12 Biggie Connection Emerges
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0:20 Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite, and I am bringing you a surprise today, something I have been working on for a little while. I didn't want to announce it, but now it's time to drop the first episode of what I'm going to be doing here. Now. Many of you enjoyed when I brought you the daily updates throughout the Sean Diddycomb's trial got a lot of downloads on that. Everybody seemed to really enjoy the content I was bringing them, and so the case that I will be covering now seems very fitting, especially since many people think they are tied in together, and that is of course right now on trial is Dwayne KEVD Davis for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur. Now, I'm gonna jump right into this one, and the first thing I'm gonna do. For those of you that may not be super familiar, I'm sure everyone is somewhat familiar with Tupac.
1:22 He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in hip hop history. Now, his career was cut short, but it was extremely impactful. It spanned music, he did movies, and it had a cultural influence that was just off the chart. And he did this all by the age of twenty five when he was murdered in nineteen ninety six in Las Vegas. A little history on Tupac. He was born on June sixteenth, nineteen seventy one. His actual birth name is Lisany Parish Crux. He was born in New York. He was later renamed Tupac Shakur. He was raised by his mother, a Feeni, who is a former Black panther. He spent parts of his childhood in New York and Baltimore, where he actually attended a very prestigious school called the Baltimore School for the Arts. Later, he lived in Oakland, California Now. He began his music career in the early nineteen nineties as a roadie and a dancer, as well as a backup performer for the Oakland based group Digital Underground, which if you're in my age group, you sure know who Digital Underground was. He appeared on their nineteen ninety one hit Same Song and in the film Nothing But Trouble Now. His music career transitioned pretty quickly into a solo career. He became known for raw,
2:54 politically charged deeply personal lyrics. Man, This guy was like a poet, and he would talk about street life, social injustices in his mind, and aggression. He had some pretty key albums to Apocalypse Now he released in nineteen ninety one. That was his debut album. One song that sticks out to me is Brenda's Got a Baby, very very controversial and also very popular song. In nineteen ninety three, he released an album called Strictly for My Nigga Z and that got even more album success. I Get Around with Digital Underground was one of the songs on that album, as well as keep Your Head Up. In nineteen ninety five, he released Me Against the World. In nineteen ninety six, he really got big when he had probably the biggest double album in hip hop history with All Eyes on Me that was certified Diamond and of course had massive hits like California Love with Doctor Dre, how Do You Want It? And two of America's Most wanted with Snoop Dogg.
4:06 He released an album after that in nineteen ninety six, Post Death, under the name mcavelly as well, which was a very popular album now acting no lack of talent there either. He released the movie Juice in nineteen ninety two, and it was really a breakout album for Tupac. He played the role of Bishop in nineteen ninety three Poetic Justice came out. Loved that movie. He played opposite of Janet Jackson in that movie Above the Rim in nineteen ninety four, and he did some other movies that were released after his death as well, but those are the most notable. Now, his career was marked by some pretty heavy legal troubles. He had a high profile sexual assault case that led to a prison sentence and he was released on appeal. He was also shot five times in a nineteen ninety four robbery in New York. Guess we're at at the lower offices of Seean diddy Combe's office in New York, And a lot of people always tied that into Sewan Combes having something to do with that.
5:15 And then in September of nineteen ninety six, he was shot in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas. He was writing with Shug Knight, who was his producer, and he died six days later on September thirteenth of nineteen ninety six, and that is what led us into this trial today. Now, some interesting details before we get into the trial. First of all, I wanted to look at his net worth at the time of his death and now because I think it's going to play somewhat of a role in this case. So at the time of his death in nineteen ninety six, look, this is his peak, right, his net worth was only about two hundred thousand dollars.
5:57 He had roughly one hundred and five thousand in a checking account. He owned two cars. He had a modest five figure life insurance policy which went to his half sister. He didn't own any real estate. Though he lived in homes, including a Woodland Hills mansion, none of those were in his name. He had no significant stocks, investments, or retirement accounts. Despite selling tens of millions of dollars worth of albums just in nineteen ninety six, sixty million dollars in fact, in album sales just that year, he was deeply in debt. Reports indicated he owed death row records about five million dollars due to large advances the label had given him for recording costs, videos, cars, housing, jewelry, security, and all these other expenses. Now, that's not uncommon in the music industry.
6:53 They do advances quite often, but they have to be repaid or recouped before you can get any meaningful royalties off of your album. And because Tupac died without of will, his mother of Feeni inherited and controlled the estate. She later fought legal battles with Death Row Records over royalties and unreleased music, which eventually helped the estate grow in value. Actually, she did a great job of managing that and growing that estate. The current estimated value as of today, so thirty years after his death right, the value today is worth between forty million and one hundred men. It was two hundred thousand in his peak when he was alive.
7:38 That is insane to me, the difference there. Now, another guy you're gonna hear a lot about in this trial is Shug Knight, the guy I mentioned that was his producer. Tupac and Shug had a close but a very complicated relationship and ultimately a tragic relationship and how they got together. In nineteen ninety five, Tupac was imprison on a sexual assault conviction. He was facing a multimillion dollar bail that he could not pay. The powerful and intimidating co founder of Death Row Records, Sug Knight. He paid Tupac's bail. It was reportedly around three million dollars depending on the source she talked to. Some say it was half that.
8:19 But what he did was he got Tupac to sign a multi album deal with the label. And this deal rescued Tupac from jail, got him out, and made him the biggest star on Death Row's label. Now, once free, Tupac really embraced death rows aggressive West Coast gangster rap image, and these two, in particular, Sug and Tupac became extremely close. They would describe themselves as brothers, like twins, like father and son, all these sort of things. And Tupac recorded his biggest commercial album, that All Eyes on Me album in nineteen ninety six under Death Row Records. You would say he Shug In Tupac together everywhere. Now, there was a dark side to that. Many people close to Tupac would later say the relationship. They would describe it as a deal with the devil. Death Row was deeply entangled with street gangs, particularly Bloods. We'll talk a little bit about that. Critics would argue that Shug's World pulled Tupac deeper into dangerous street politics. And an escalating feud with bad Boy records in the notories Big Who were produced by Sean Diddy Combs. So that's just a little overview of the history, a quick overview of the history of what led us to court and to hopefully getting to the bottom of who killed Tupac Shakur. So August seventeenth,
9:51 twenty twenty six, yesterday, from when I'm recording this court opens, jury is chosen, so the opening statements start, and it starts with the prosecutor. Incidentally, this all occurred what you're going to hear about in Las Vegas, Nevada, in nineteen ninety six, and the chief Deputy District Attorney, Binu Palau. He frames the case as a clear act of gang revenge. So he tells the jury that Davis, the leader or what you would call the shot caller of the south Side Compton Krepps, did not personally pull the trigger. Instead, he planned the retaliation. He obtained the gun, he got in the white Cadillac that carried out the drive by shooting of Tupac, and he claimed that keefd made sure the shooters were armed and ready. The motive was revenge for a public beating of Davis's nephew Orlando Baby Lane Anderson by TUPAC and members of Death Row Slash Mob Piru Entourage earlier that evening. So I'm going to give you the sequence of the events as he presented them.
11:00 He said, on the night of September seventh, nineteen ninety six, after a Mike Tyson invited at the MGM Grand, Tupac and associates assaulted Anderson in the hotel lobby casino area. The beating was captured on security video, which I'm sure all of you have seen that, and the prosecutor said it was a humiliating public attack, and you can see in that video TUPAC stomping Orlando in that casino lobby. Now Davis learned of this KEVD, and according to prosecutors, he spent the next roughly two and a half hours planning a response. In his world, and according to gang culture, there was no question that a response was required. Davis acquired a forty caliber glock and he and three others, a driver by the name of Terrence T. Brown, Brown, DeAndre big Drey Smith, and his nephew or Lando Anderson, got in a way Cadillac so you got the guy that is basically the leader of this gang in KEFD and his nephew, Orlando Anderson just got a beat down.
12:10 So they jump into this white Cadillac and while driving and after deciding to get alcohol and return to the strip, they spot Tupac in sug Night's convoy, which is a black BMW with a bunch of cars behind him. They make a U turn and they pull alongside. Now important to mention this is after a Mike Tyson fight. You know how packed it can be on the Las Vegas Strip on a normal basis. This is after a Mike Tyson fight when Tyson was in his prime, so you can imagine how packed that strip was. So Davis sits in the front passenger seat, but because the Cadillac pulled up on the BMW's passenger side, he didn't have a clear shot. He would have had to reach across the driver to shoot, So, according to prosecutors, he handed or tossed the gun to the back seat to Smith or Anderson.
13:02 Prosecutors said Smith kind of hesitated, he didn't want to shoot, and Anderson says, give me that gun. He takes the gun from him and he starts shooting at Tupac and shoots him several times. Now, the prosecutor highlighted Davis's own recorded words from statements and he said, quote, if he would have been on my side, I would have blasted and I gave it to Dre. So a major theme was that the jury would not have to take the state's word for it. They can hear from Davis himself. And prosecutors would point to a two thousand and eight secret profit interview made with a federal task force that was originally investigating the murder of Notorious Big. They were put together to investigate that, and that led them to this investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur. A two thousand and nine interview with Las Vegas police was all so mentioned, as well as other statements over the years, and KEVD couldn't keep his mouth shut. Man. He went on media interviews, He even wrote a book. He went on a bet appearance in twenty seventeen, kind of ran his mouth and as I said that book, Compton Street Legend was a twenty nineteen memoir in which he described aspects of that night, including tossing that gun into the back seat. So the prosecutor. He closed this opening argument by stressing accountability even after thirty years of this death.
14:34 He said, let me be clear, Dwayne Davis did not pull the trigger, but what he did do was planning the retaliation for the beating of his nephew. You will learn that Dwayne Davis got the gun. You will learn that he got into the white Cadillac. You will learn that when the opportunity presented itself for retribution, Dwayne Davis made sure the shooters were armed and ready to execute their revenge. And remarkably, you will learn from Dwayne Davis himself. Now, nearly thirty years later, we're going to ask you to finally hold Dwayne Davis accountable. Now, that statement set up the prosecution's case as relying primarily on Davis's own emissions, and it's hard to beat that kind of reliability. The MGM security video of the earlier fight in the sequence of the gang rivalry and retaliation, rather than traditional forensic or eyewitness identification evidence from that shooting, they got the guy in his own words saying he did this. So he kind of ended his opening statement there. The defense then gets up and the defense attorney is Michael Samft, and I gotta say, if you're a Saturday Night Live fan and you've ever watched Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, this dude looks just like that dude. I can't every time he gets up to talk, that is mister Keyrock from Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. So you got to check that out and tell me. I can't be the only one who thinks up.
16:03 But anyway, he gets up, he delivers his opening statement for the defense of Dwayne KEVD Davis, and he's I guess you could say his central theme was fact versus fiction. He reportedly told the jury that the prosecution's case is built almost entirely on uncooborated statements and you know, mostly from keevd himself, rather than independent, verifiable facts. And I found that kind of strange, because I mean, you couldn't beat a statement more than I did it. Someone's saying they did it or had something to do with it. But his core arguments consisted of the facts linking Davis to the crime. He said there are no facts at point to Kiefe, not one, and he argued that prosecutors are presenting Davis's old interviews in his twenty nineteen book, as if they are proof when in reality they are unproven claims. It must be independently coroborated. Simply repeating if the story doesn't make it true, he said. He also said Davis is an unreliable narrator, basically said he's full of crap. Sam directly attacked his own client's credibility. He told the Journey that Davis is known for fabricating stories and should a PowerPoint slide with the word bullshit, no kidding.
17:21 He also pointed out that after Davis made detailed admissions to a federal task force in two thousand and eight and later to Las Vegas Police in two thousand and nine and im media interviews, no charges were filed for years, and he said it was because they knew he was full of shit, otherwise they would have charged him. Why would they not have charged him? He suggested that investigators looked into the claims, could not verify them, and therefore never move forward until much later. He also said the thirty year investigation was deeply flawed. He walked the Jurney through the investigation timeline. He highlighted problems with detectives. He brought up one named Becker, and he said that Becker kept the case file locked in his office because of media leaks. He said that Becker distrusted the Compton Police Department, which was later shut down for corruption, and he said many reports are now missing. He also brought up detective Long, who handled the case for roughly fifteen years, and he said that this detective was given a gun by the LAPD for testing that turned out not to be the murder weapon. He said detective Long interviewed Davis in two thousand and nine while aware of an earlier federal interview, yet no charges came out of that. He said later investigators would focus more on closing the case than thoroughly solving it, and he said a search warrant executed on Davis's home produced nothing of value. The documentation was incomplete
18:56 and it was created after the fact, and he argued that the long time since this occurred thirty years, resulting in lost records, and a lot of people are dead that were involved in the case, and it just would be impossible that anyone could coroborate this story of Keify's involvement because Keify Davis is pretty much a liar. You can't believe him is what he's saying. He also said there's no evidence that places Davis in Las Vegas at the time of the incident. He said there's no hotel or flight tickets in keff D's name, no credit card receipts, no photos, and no other physical or documentary proof that he was even in Las Vegas on September seventh of nineteen ninety six. He then asked the jury appointed question.
19:48 He said, what facts do they have to even put Keefd in the car in Las Vegas on September seventh of nineteen ninety six. He said there was credit bill problems also with the expected state witnesses. He said many of these witnesses have criminal records, they paid informants motives to lie or pass misconduct by detectives such as and He brought up Greg Cating, who will play a big part in this case, who he accused of stealing case files and manipulating investigations. And in closing of his opening argument, he told the jury the state cannot meet its burden of proving first degree murder or even assisting in it beyond a reasonable doubt. He urged the jury to demand actual cooperating facts rather than accepting decade old, self serving, uncooperated statements at truth. And then he kind of rusted his opening statement and it was time to get into trial, and that's what they did. And the first witness up was a guy by the name of Gary Dale. He is a retired Las Vegas Metro Police depart officer and he was a bicycle officer, so he was on bicycle patrol and he was assigned to the Las Vegas Strip on the night of September seventh of nineteen ninety six, according to his testimony, approximately ten minutes before the shooting, he and his partner conducted a traffic stop on a
21:18 black BMW driven by Marion sug Knight with Tupac Shakor in the passenger seat, and they asked Tupac and sug Knight, why do you not have a license plate on the back of this car, and the two claimed they removed it for a music video, and he said the interaction was cordial. He even mentioned commenting on Shakur's large gold chain medallion, which when he's saying this in court, I'm like that was probably a little uncomfortable for Tupac. When you got an officer saying, hey, you got a nice that's a big chunk of gold you got around your neck. I mean, that was kind of a weird thing to say to somebody, but anyway, that's what he said. And then he said, they told them you got to put your license plate back on and will relation let you go about your business. But they didn't even write a report about the stop, which I found kind of strange.
22:14 Normally you would at least log that you stopped, especially when it was Tupac Shakor. But regardless of that, Roughly ten minutes later, Dale responded to a radio call about a shooting and he located, Hey, look you there the same BMW I just stopped on my bicycle. It was stopped on the median near Hormon Boulevard in Las Vegas Boulevard. Knight was outside the vehicle. He was bleeding from a head wound, and this officer described it as appearing to be a chunk of shrapnel in his head. And the whole time that sug Night has shot, he's repeatingly directing officers to attend to Shakur instead of hisself. According to this officer, emergency medical personnel were removing a badly wounded Shakur from the car at that time, and Dale, the officer, accompanied Shaquur in the ambulance to University Medical Center. Chaquur was conscious in talking at that point, and Dale said he repeatedly asked him to identify the assailants. Shaquur refused, responding to the effect of no, and will take care of it, or similar wording multiple times. Dale could not get any further information from him. He said at the hospital he impounded Shakur's personal belongings and noted the large gold necklace he had been wearing during that earlier traffic stop was no longer on him, and that's common if somebody's going to the hospital or jail or something like that, their boys will take that necklace off, but he didn't
23:46 note that that was no longer on him. On cross examination, Dale confirmed that Strup traffic was congested that night as was typical, and I'm sure over congested because of that fight. And the next witness up was Ingride, a female who was visiting Las Vegas from la and she came in specifically that weekend to attend the Mike Tyson fight with three female friends at the MGM Graham, but they ended up missing the fight somehow. They stayed at the Luxer and they later went to the MGM area after the fight to socialize and Hey, we're gonna party. We're here, the fight's over, so we're going to see where it's all going down. Right. They were in a rented convertible Chrysler Seabring and Shalen was driving. One of her friends, Stoke was in the front passenger seat. Tanisha and Lauren, their other two friends, were behind the driver and passenger.
24:42 Roughly fifteen minutes after leaving the MGM Grand Arena, they encountered the BMW driven by sug Knight in Tupac Shakur and of course sug Knight driving Tupac in the passenger seat front passenger seat. Lauren actually knew sug Night and had them pull alongside say she could speak with him. Shug says, hey, follow us, We're going to what's done as Club six' six y. Two they, said, hell, yeah that's where the party. Is they, agreed and they fell in behind THAT bmw on the. Strip, now another vehicle they, said was behind them and kept trying to pass them or cut off in front of them and later she said she understood it was likely part of the. Entourage, stokes who was driving at this, point decided they should take their own route to the. Club it's kind of making her. Nervous this car was weaving in and out trying to get in front of. Them there was a lot of. Traffic she's, LIKE i know another way to get, there so she just turns off on another road and tries to get to six', six' two kind of. A back.
25:47 Way she said the last Time, she saw tupac he was sitting relaxed in, the passenger seat. Listening to music he wasn't hanging out the window at this point or, interacting with fans just kind. Of sitting there and she said they came up To light And stokes and shylene were leaning out unbuckling sea belts to switch seats when all, of a sudden they hear a variety of. Gunshots fire out, she freaked, out. She said Screamed she grabbed shalen's head to pull her, down for cover and she said she put the car in drive and got the hell, out of there and they fled down A street called coval and nearly collided with a light colored ford or vehicle that was in or near. The turning lane stokes said she didn't see who was inside, that white car but they were driving as if they, were leaving something, fleeing a scene. If you. Will she said they later returned to the area and police made them sit, on the sidewalk and she said they were. Kind of assholes she didn't, say that word but she said we felt like we were being, treated like Suspects which made. Stokes very, uneasy, she said, Look full disclosure i'm not a fan. Of the police, at that time she feared being identified as a, witness by onlookers and when the attorney asked, her about, that she said, snitches GET stitches so i didn't want to be seen as someone who maybe identifying somebody and end up in the Same. Situation as tupac she said she did not see the shooters or key details of,
27:18 the attack itself and had no direct knowledge beyond the sequence of events around the car and the sound. Of, the gunfire now witness number three this day then took the stand after, she was released and this. Was a detective His Name. Was brent becker he's the third witness on day one and he was called to the scene around twelve thirty or one O'clock am on september eighth of, nineteen ninety six so this is roughly two hours. After this shooting he said it was unusual for homicide detectives to respond while the victim, was still live because that's. What he was, he's now retired but he was. A homicide Detective you've got tupac who's still, Alive this time you're getting called. To a scene that is. Kind of unusual but he chalked us up to the fact of who it was because it was. Very high profile he said by the, time he arrived most. People had left he used, the term skedaddled and he said witnesses in a trailing Vehicle Included bodyguard frank alexander and some members of another Rap group called outlaws That Rapped. With tupac shakor he Described a white cadillac with two to four male occupants pulling up on the right passenger Side of SUG, night's black, bmw Opening Fire and frank alexander told him that vehicle then Turned. South on coval bullet strikes were only on the passenger SIDE. Of the bmw he said he did talk about shell, casings being recovered but he said they didn't match the full number, of impact marks
28:50 which he also said was not unusual because those can get stuck in the tread of tires and they can end up, In you know idaho somewhere when they come. Out of there it's just not unusual for. That to happen he said that forty caliber glock was what was determined to be used as far, as a gun and he said the way they know that is the way the striations are. Made in glocks you know right away what type of weapons they are. From the shellcase he said no witnesses could identify the shooter beyond a general description of. A black man photo lineups, of POTENTIAL suspects, including cript members, produced no identification and he said investigators later learned of the earlier FIGHT At the Mgm Grand involving chakor knight and others where They Beat. Down orlando, anderson he said nobody said anything about this when we were interviewing them. On the scene he said their next steps where they wanted To, interview sug knight but initially.
29:49 That was unsuccessful He said when knight, finally came In which was about, three days later he arrived, with Three attorneys and becker described the interview, as very practiced and he, said the reason and he Suspected that was knight. Was surprisingly timid, and he said All these interviews i've, seen him in he's kind of this badass guy who, was very intimidating and he was like a child, in these, interviews very timid, and he said it just did not seem like it was. Really the guy knight claimed he knew nothing and, recognized No one and becker testified That he. Believed knight lied he also went on to say the investigation. Faced significant obstacles they had difficulty getting. Witnesses to talk they were. Concerned about leaks he went on to say he locked case files in his desk and some of those, materials still disappeared and he said a Leaked polaroid if shakur on the autopsy. Table got out he said early suspects that investigators Focused On included Dwayne, Keithy D, davis Orlando Anderson Big, dre DeAndre Smith. And terence brown becker said he made Multiple trips to california but often got, the run around including from. Death road records he noted Distrust OF some compton. Pd interview techniques just didn't like the way they were. Doing their policing and so that. Was, his testimony now the fourth witness was A former la
31:19 pd detected by The Name. Of fred miller now. Here's something interesting he didn't Investigate initially. The tupot case he was actually an investigator On the notorious big murder and he was able in his mind to connect. These two cases and just to brief points, from his testimony he spent over THIRTY years with, lapd worked robbery homicide, in special investigations and his unit Took over the biggie investigation roughly sixty days after That shooting on march ninth of, nineteen ninety seven and that was due to manpower issues that they were having, of some. Sort, he said now just to quick, Catch up here biggie was shot four times while leaving a music industry Party At The. Peterson automotive museum This Is, in los angeles and investigators were looking, for a Newer dark Colored chevrolet and paula with distinctive rims in connection. With THAT shooting davis kevd emerged as a potential suspect or, person Of interest And miller testified davis was Present At The peterson auto museum. Party that night investigators then received information from multiple sources about a possible financial dispute or money allegedly OWED to Keiv D From, sean diddy combs and this became one of the. Leads they pursued there were no, facts behind this just in the window. At this time right, on cross examination when
32:49 asked if there Was actual evidence davis was Owed, money by combs the testimony indicated it was based off of tips and information rather, than confirmed proof so it's very. To say that he also talked about a POLAROID photograph of keivd that was recovered from the Trunk of A chevrolet And pola in compton during a search Related To the. Biggie small's investigation that fetal was collected as evidence but did not ultimately Help solve. The biggie case and he also talked about portions of a Recorded, Interview, involving Miller davis and, davis's then attorney and those were, played in court, And in it davis indicated investigators were barking up the wrong Tree regarding the biggie case and made comments that led officers to Ask about sug, Knight and others so he was trying to shift the focus away from himself and On to sug knight for The Murder. Of biggie smalls so the judge instructed the jury that police Do not believe davis Was involved, in biggie's killing because at this point it was kind of looking like that was what was being. Thrown their way and the testament he really served to introduce the Background on how davis first came onto law enforcements radar in the late nineteen Nineties through the bigie investigation and related, hip hop circles rather than Directly proving. The tupac murder so that was very important to. Mention as well and. There it was that.
34:22 Was day one they actually got. Through four witnesses they also got through opening statements, on both sides so they're. Moving pretty fast they're, supposedly i think between thirty five and forty witnesses. In this case it's expected to last a. Month or so. This entire case i'm going to bring you daily updates like this as soon as, they come out still bringing you other. Drops as well this is just a little layap as. We call It Here. In south louisiana but we'll do this case together and you'll see it through my eyes as. These facts drops what's coming, Your, way tomorrow well the Continue Testimony, of fred MILLER the retired.
35:03 Lapd homicide detective they should. Wrap, that Up Also doctor lisa gavin is slated to. Take the stand that is a Forensic Pathologist in clark county and medical examiner who testified as an expert Witness To detail tupac shakur's fatal bullet wounds. And autopsy records that's going to be some. Very, Interesting Testimony, also michael ingram who was AN Investigator For mgm grand resorts that was where the fight had Taken place between tupac and His Crew, against orlando anderson should make for. Some Interesting, testimony kenneth Rios A Retired Las Vegas police, department metro detective should also have time to, testify to More As, will william hydemeyer who is a security officer at or was. At this time he's Retired Now at Maxim hotel And Casino, in las vegas and they may get to some more because they are. MOVING really quick i don't think this is going to be anywhere.
36:12 Near a moth if they keep moving, AT this pace i think this is going to be a two and a half to. Three WEEK trial now i bring that up Because one thing i've found interesting already in this may change as. We go along but, THE defense man i don't know what's up, with that dude but he doesn't. Object TO anything and, I, Have seen look i've watched a, lot. OF trials y'all i have seen so many opportunities where the witnesses are being led, by the prosecutor so so much, so in fact that he is. Finishing their sentences in a, lot of cases you. Can't do that that's called. Leading the witness and he's done it like twenty times so far, in this trial and the defense has. Not, objected once now you don't want to object every time someone opens their mouth on, the witness stand because that frustrates the jury and it looks like in some ways it could look like you're trying. To hide something but on the other, aspect of that when you've got an attorney who is completing the sentences of the people that are, on the stand he's essentially testifying rather than the witness that's. On the stand and this guy has done this twenty times at least the defense not a peep out. OF that guy i don't know what's. Up with that, maybe it'll change but it's also one of the reasons this is, moving so quickly because he just doesn't have a problem With anything asking it seems. Like so far i'm Not saying that i'm on any side except the side, of THE truth but i have noticed that and it. Is
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