Ex-gang leader seeking release from Las Vegas jail ahead of trial in 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur | CityNews Calgary

A former Los Angeles-area gang chief charged with homicide within the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is deriding the case in opposition to him because the product of hypothesis and second-hand testimony as he asks a choose to place him on home arrest forward of his trial.

A Jan. 2 listening to date was set Tuesday on Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ bid to be launched on not more than $100,000 bail. His court-appointed attorneys wrote that the well being of their 60-year-old consumer has deteriorated in jail and that he’s not getting correct medical consideration following a bout with colon most cancers that they stated is in remission.

“His diet and lack of exercise in the jail, given his age and medical history, is negatively impacting his health,” deputy particular public defenders Robert Arroyo and Charles Cano stated within the bail movement filed Thursday earlier than Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny.

Davis, initially from Compton, California, was arrested Sept. 29 exterior a Las Vegas-area residence the place police served a search warrant July 17.

His attorneys advised the choose that Davis is married, has 4 youngsters, has lived in that Henderson residence for 10 years, poses no hazard to the group and gained’t flee to keep away from prosecution. They famous that Davis didn’t go away city within the greater than two months between the police raid and his indictment. He is scheduled for trial in June.

His bail movement attributes the indictment in opposition to Davis to incomplete accounts “based on hearsay and highly prejudicial and speculative evidence” from “witnesses with questionable credibility.”

It additionally maintains that Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir and varied interviews shouldn’t be used as proof in opposition to him, together with these wherein he described orchestrating the drive-by taking pictures that killed Shakur and wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.

Knight, now 58, is serving 28 years in a California jail for the dying of a Compton businessman in 2015. He has not implicated Davis, although Davis stated in his guide that the 2 males “locked eyes” moments earlier than car-to-car gunfire erupted at a cease gentle close to the Las Vegas Strip greater than 27 years in the past, the courtroom submitting famous.

Davis is the one particular person nonetheless alive who was within the automobile from which pictures have been fired.

“The book and interviews were done for entertainment purposes and to make money,” the doc stated, including that Davis was shielded by a 2008 settlement with the FBI and Los Angeles police that gave him immunity from prosecution in Shakur’s dying.

Davis wrote in his guide that he advised authorities in Los Angeles what he knew in regards to the deadly shootings of Shakur and rival rapper Christopher Wallace six months later in Los Angeles. Wallace was often known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls.

Prosecutors say the Shakur taking pictures adopted clashes between rival East Coast and West Coast teams for dominance within the musical style dubbed “gangsta rap.” The grand jury was advised that shortly earlier than the taking pictures Shakur was concerned in a brawl at a Las Vegas Strip on line casino with Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson.

Anderson, then 22, was within the automobile with Davis and two different males however denied involvement in Shakur’s killing. Anderson died two years later in a taking pictures in Compton.

Shakur had 5 No. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted in 2017 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He obtained a posthumous star this 12 months on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a road close to the place Shakur lived in Oakland, California within the Nineteen Nineties was renamed lately in his honor.