Ex-gang leader makes his bid in Las Vegas court for house arrest before trial in Tupac Shakur case | CityNews Calgary
A former Los Angeles-area gang chief charged with killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas plans to ask a choose on Tuesday to launch him to accommodate arrest forward of the trial in June.
Court-appointed attorneys for Duane “Keffe D” Davis say their 60-year-old consumer is sick, poses no hazard to the neighborhood and received’t flee to keep away from trial. They need the choose to set his bail at no more than $100,000.
Davis has pleaded not responsible to a homicide cost and has remained jailed with out bail since his arrest Sept. 29 outdoors his house in suburban Henderson, the place Las Vegas police had served a search warrant in mid-July. He is the one particular person ever charged with a criminal offense within the capturing that additionally wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.
Prosecutors allege in a courtroom submitting submitted final week that jail phone recordings and a listing of names supplied to Davis’ relations present that there are witnesses in danger of hurt if Davis was launched.
They additionally referred to as consideration to Davis’ personal phrases since 2008 — in police interviews, in his 2019 tell-all memoir and within the media — which gives sturdy proof that he orchestrated the September 1996 drive-by capturing.
Knight, now 58, is serving 28 years in a California jail for an unrelated capturing that killed a Compton businessman in 2015.
Meanwhile Davis is being held on the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, the place detainees’ cellphone calls are routinely recorded. If convicted, he might spend the remainder of his life in a Nevada state jail.
In a recording of an October name, prosecutors say Davis’ son stated the defendant gave a “green light” authorization to kill Shakur. Prosecutors Marc DiGiacomo and Binu Palal stated federal authorities “stepped in and provided resources to at least (one witness) so he could change his residence.”
There is not any reference within the courtroom submitting to Davis instructing anybody to hurt somebody, or to anybody related to the case being bodily harmed.
One of Davis’ protection attorneys, Robert Arroyo, instructed The Associated Press he didn’t see proof that any witness had been named or threatened.
Davis is initially from Compton, California. He maintains that he was given immunity from prosecution in 2008 by FBI brokers and Los Angeles police who have been investigating each the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and rival rapper Christopher Wallace, generally known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, in March 1997 in Los Angeles.
Davis’ attorneys argue that his descriptions of Shakur’s killing have been “done for entertainment purposes and to make money.”
Ken Ritter, The Associated Press
