LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A choose didn’t sentence the person accused of orchestrating the homicide of Tupac Shakur for an unrelated jail combat Thursday after he switched attorneys in his homicide case.
On April 9, a Clark County jury discovered Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 62, responsible of preventing with one other inmate in December on the Clark County Detention Heart. It took the jury 90 minutes to achieve its verdict.
Within the weeks afterward, Davis’ lawyer, Carl Arnold, alleged jurors improperly mentioned the case and requested the choose for a re-trial. Earlier this summer time, Clark County District Courtroom Choose Nadia Krall denied that request, scheduling sentencing for Thursday.
On Thursday, Arnold requested Krall delay the sentencing additional as he was now not Davis’ lawyer within the homicide case. Earlier this week, Davis retained Michael Pandullo and Robert Draskovich to symbolize him. Draskovich most lately represented former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles in his homicide case.
Davis, who a grand jury indicted in 2023 on a homicide cost for Shakur’s demise, has publicly mentioned he was sitting within the entrance passenger seat of the automobile concerned within the 1996 homicide close to the Las Vegas Strip.
In July, Arnold information paperwork asking the Nevada Supreme Courtroom to dismiss the homicide case, claiming he has immunity. Within the submitting, Arnold argues the choose in that case “overstepped” her authority and that a few of Davis’ statements are protected against the prior agreements.
Davis’ sentencing for the combat was moved to Aug. 28. The trial for Shakur’s homicide was scheduled to start subsequent February.
