Aug. 18, 2026
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...
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 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
#tupac #deathrowrecords #sugeknight #biggie #rap #trial #keffed #duanedavis #podcast
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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
#tupac #deathrowrecords #sugeknight #biggie #rap #trial #keffed #duanedavis #podcast
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/exposed-scandalous-files-of-the-elite--6073723/support.
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Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite,
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and I am bringing you a surprise today, something I
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have been working on for a little while. I didn't
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want to announce it, but now it's time to drop
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the first episode of what I'm going to be doing here. Now.
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Many of you enjoyed when I brought you the daily
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updates throughout the Sean Diddycomb's trial got a lot of
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downloads on that. Everybody seemed to really enjoy the content
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I was bringing them, and so the case that I
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will be covering now seems very fitting, especially since many
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people think they are tied in together, and that is
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of course right now on trial is Dwayne KEVD Davis
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for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur. Now, I'm gonna
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jump right into this one, and the first thing I'm
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gonna do. For those of you that may not be
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super familiar, I'm sure everyone is somewhat familiar with Tupac.
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He was one of the most influential and controversial figures
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in hip hop history. Now, his career was cut short,
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but it was extremely impactful. It spanned music, he did movies,
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and it had a cultural influence that was just off
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the chart. And he did this all by the age
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of twenty five when he was murdered in nineteen ninety
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six in Las Vegas. A little history on Tupac. He
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was born on June sixteenth, nineteen seventy one. His actual
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birth name is Lisany Parish Crux. He was born in
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New York. He was later renamed Tupac Shakur. He was
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raised by his mother, a Feeni, who is a former
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Black panther. He spent parts of his childhood in New
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York and Baltimore, where he actually attended a very prestigious
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school called the Baltimore School for the Arts. Later, he
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lived in Oakland, California Now. He began his music career
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in the early nineteen nineties as a roadie and a dancer,
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as well as a backup performer for the Oakland based
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group Digital Underground, which if you're in my age group,
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you sure know who Digital Underground was. He appeared on
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their nineteen ninety one hit Same Song and in the
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film Nothing But Trouble Now. His music career transitioned pretty
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quickly into a solo career. He became known for raw,
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politically charged deeply personal lyrics. Man, This guy was like
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a poet, and he would talk about street life, social
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injustices in his mind, and aggression. He had some pretty
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key albums to Apocalypse Now he released in nineteen ninety one.
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That was his debut album. One song that sticks out
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to me is Brenda's Got a Baby, very very controversial
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and also very popular song. In nineteen ninety three, he
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released an album called Strictly for My Nigga Z and
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that got even more album success. I Get Around with
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Digital Underground was one of the songs on that album,
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as well as keep Your Head Up. In nineteen ninety five,
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he released Me Against the World. In nineteen ninety six,
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he really got big when he had probably the biggest
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double album in hip hop history with All Eyes on
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Me that was certified Diamond and of course had massive
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hits like California Love with Doctor Dre, how Do You
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Want It? And two of America's Most wanted with Snoop Dogg.
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He released an album after that in nineteen ninety six,
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Post Death, under the name mcavelly as well, which was
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a very popular album now acting no lack of talent
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there either. He released the movie Juice in nineteen ninety two,
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and it was really a breakout album for Tupac. He
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played the role of Bishop in nineteen ninety three Poetic
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Justice came out. Loved that movie. He played opposite of
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Janet Jackson in that movie Above the Rim in nineteen
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ninety four, and he did some other movies that were
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released after his death as well, but those are the
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most notable. Now, his career was marked by some pretty
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heavy legal troubles. He had a high profile sexual assault
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case that led to a prison sentence and he was
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released on appeal. He was also shot five times in
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a nineteen ninety four robbery in New York. Guess we're
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at at the lower offices of Seean diddy Combe's office
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in New York, And a lot of people always tied
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that into Sewan Combes having something to do with that.
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And then in September of nineteen ninety six, he was
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shot in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas. He
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was writing with Shug Knight, who was his producer, and
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he died six days later on September thirteenth of nineteen
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ninety six, and that is what led us into this
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trial today. Now, some interesting details before we get into
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the trial. First of all, I wanted to look at
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his net worth at the time of his death and
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now because I think it's going to play somewhat of
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a role in this case. So at the time of
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his death in nineteen ninety six, look, this is his peak, right,
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his net worth was only about two hundred thousand dollars.
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He had roughly one hundred and five thousand in a
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checking account. He owned two cars. He had a modest
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five figure life insurance policy which went to his half sister.
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He didn't own any real estate. Though he lived in homes,
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including a Woodland Hills mansion, none of those were in
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his name. He had no significant stocks, investments, or retirement accounts.
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Despite selling tens of millions of dollars worth of albums
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just in nineteen ninety six, sixty million dollars in fact,
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in album sales just that year, he was deeply in debt.
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Reports indicated he owed death row records about five million
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dollars due to large advances the label had given him
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for recording costs, videos, cars, housing, jewelry, security, and all
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these other expenses. Now, that's not uncommon in the music industry.
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They do advances quite often, but they have to be
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repaid or recouped before you can get any meaningful royalties
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off of your album. And because Tupac died without of will,
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his mother of Feeni inherited and controlled the estate. She
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later fought legal battles with Death Row Records over royalties
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and unreleased music, which eventually helped the estate grow in value. Actually,
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she did a great job of managing that and growing
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that estate. The current estimated value as of today, so
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thirty years after his death right, the value today is
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worth between forty million and one hundred men. It was
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two hundred thousand in his peak when he was alive.
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That is insane to me, the difference there. Now, another
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guy you're gonna hear a lot about in this trial
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is Shug Knight, the guy I mentioned that was his producer.
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Tupac and Shug had a close but a very complicated
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relationship and ultimately a tragic relationship and how they got together.
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In nineteen ninety five, Tupac was imprison on a sexual
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assault conviction. He was facing a multimillion dollar bail that
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he could not pay. The powerful and intimidating co founder
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of Death Row Records, Sug Knight. He paid Tupac's bail.
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It was reportedly around three million dollars depending on the
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source she talked to. Some say it was half that.
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But what he did was he got Tupac to sign
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a multi album deal with the label. And this deal
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rescued Tupac from jail, got him out, and made him
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the biggest star on Death Row's label. Now, once free,
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Tupac really embraced death rows aggressive West Coast gangster rap image,
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and these two, in particular, Sug and Tupac became extremely close.
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They would describe themselves as brothers, like twins, like father
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and son, all these sort of things. And Tupac recorded
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his biggest commercial album, that All Eyes on Me album
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in nineteen ninety six under Death Row Records. You would
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say he Shug In Tupac together everywhere. Now, there was
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a dark side to that. Many people close to Tupac
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would later say the relationship. They would describe it as
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a deal with the devil. Death Row was deeply entangled
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with street gangs, particularly Bloods. We'll talk a little bit
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about that. Critics would argue that Shug's World pulled Tupac
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deeper into dangerous street politics. And an escalating feud with
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bad Boy records in the notories Big Who were produced
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by Sean Diddy Combs. So that's just a little overview
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of the history, a quick overview of the history of
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what led us to court and to hopefully getting to
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the bottom of who killed Tupac Shakur. So August seventeenth,
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twenty twenty six, yesterday, from when I'm recording this court opens,
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jury is chosen, so the opening statements start, and it
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starts with the prosecutor. Incidentally, this all occurred what you're
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going to hear about in Las Vegas, Nevada, in nineteen
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ninety six, and the chief Deputy District Attorney, Binu Palau.
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He frames the case as a clear act of gang revenge.
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So he tells the jury that Davis, the leader or
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what you would call the shot caller of the south
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Side Compton Krepps, did not personally pull the trigger. Instead,
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he planned the retaliation. He obtained the gun, he got
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in the white Cadillac that carried out the drive by
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shooting of Tupac, and he claimed that keefd made sure
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the shooters were armed and ready. The motive was revenge
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for a public beating of Davis's nephew Orlando Baby Lane
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Anderson by TUPAC and members of Death Row Slash Mob
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Piru Entourage earlier that evening. So I'm going to give
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you the sequence of the events as he presented them.
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He said, on the night of September seventh, nineteen ninety six,
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after a Mike Tyson invited at the MGM Grand, Tupac
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and associates assaulted Anderson in the hotel lobby casino area.
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The beating was captured on security video, which I'm sure
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all of you have seen that, and the prosecutor said
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it was a humiliating public attack, and you can see
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in that video TUPAC stomping Orlando in that casino lobby.
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Now Davis learned of this KEVD, and according to prosecutors,
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he spent the next roughly two and a half hours
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planning a response. In his world, and according to gang culture,
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there was no question that a response was required. Davis
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acquired a forty caliber glock and he and three others,
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a driver by the name of Terrence T. Brown, Brown,
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DeAndre big Drey Smith, and his nephew or Lando Anderson,
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got in a way Cadillac so you got the guy
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that is basically the leader of this gang in KEFD
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and his nephew, Orlando Anderson just got a beat down.
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So they jump into this white Cadillac and while driving
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and after deciding to get alcohol and return to the strip,
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they spot Tupac in sug Night's convoy, which is a
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black BMW with a bunch of cars behind him. They
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make a U turn and they pull alongside. Now important
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to mention this is after a Mike Tyson fight. You
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know how packed it can be on the Las Vegas
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Strip on a normal basis. This is after a Mike
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Tyson fight when Tyson was in his prime, so you
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can imagine how packed that strip was. So Davis sits
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in the front passenger seat, but because the Cadillac pulled
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up on the BMW's passenger side, he didn't have a
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clear shot. He would have had to reach across the
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driver to shoot, So, according to prosecutors, he handed or
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tossed the gun to the back seat to Smith or Anderson.
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Prosecutors said Smith kind of hesitated, he didn't want to shoot,
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and Anderson says, give me that gun. He takes the
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gun from him and he starts shooting at Tupac and
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shoots him several times. Now, the prosecutor highlighted Davis's own
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recorded words from statements and he said, quote, if he
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would have been on my side, I would have blasted
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and I gave it to Dre. So a major theme
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was that the jury would not have to take the
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state's word for it. They can hear from Davis himself.
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And prosecutors would point to a two thousand and eight
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secret profit interview made with a federal task force that
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was originally investigating the murder of Notorious Big. They were
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put together to investigate that, and that led them to
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this investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur. A two
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thousand and nine interview with Las Vegas police was all
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so mentioned, as well as other statements over the years,
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and KEVD couldn't keep his mouth shut. Man. He went
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on media interviews, He even wrote a book. He went
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on a bet appearance in twenty seventeen, kind of ran
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his mouth and as I said that book, Compton Street
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Legend was a twenty nineteen memoir in which he described
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aspects of that night, including tossing that gun into the
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back seat. So the prosecutor. He closed this opening argument
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by stressing accountability even after thirty years of this death.
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He said, let me be clear, Dwayne Davis did not
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pull the trigger, but what he did do was planning
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the retaliation for the beating of his nephew. You will
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learn that Dwayne Davis got the gun. You will learn
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that he got into the white Cadillac. You will learn
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that when the opportunity presented itself for retribution, Dwayne Davis
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made sure the shooters were armed and ready to execute
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their revenge. And remarkably, you will learn from Dwayne Davis himself. Now,
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nearly thirty years later, we're going to ask you to
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finally hold Dwayne Davis accountable. Now, that statement set up
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the prosecution's case as relying primarily on Davis's own emissions,
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and it's hard to beat that kind of reliability. The
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MGM security video of the earlier fight in the sequence
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of the gang rivalry and retaliation, rather than traditional forensic
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or eyewitness identification evidence from that shooting, they got the
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guy in his own words saying he did this. So
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he kind of ended his opening statement there. The defense
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then gets up and the defense attorney is Michael Samft,
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and I gotta say, if you're a Saturday Night Live
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fan and you've ever watched Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, this dude
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looks just like that dude. I can't every time he
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gets up to talk, that is mister Keyrock from Unfrozen
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Caveman Lawyer. So you got to check that out and
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tell me. I can't be the only one who thinks up.
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But anyway, he gets up, he delivers his opening statement
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for the defense of Dwayne KEVD Davis, and he's I
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guess you could say his central theme was fact versus fiction.
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