LAS VEGAS (AP) — The one suspect ever charged within the killing of Tupac Shakur didn’t seem in court docket Tuesday for a listening to on whether or not his protection staff is ready to go to trial.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis additionally didn’t attend a scheduled listening to in one other case, wherein he’s accused of combating with one other man on the Clark County Detention Middle in late December.
A spokesperson for Davis’ legal professional declined to say why he didn’t attend both listening to. The Related Press left messages with the detention middle in search of extra info.
Davis, who pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide within the 1996 loss of life of the rap icon in Las Vegas, has been jailed since his September 2023 arrest.
Lawyer Carl Arnold instructed Clark County District Courtroom Choose Carli Kierny that Davis would “probably want to be here” for the trial readiness listening to and requested that or not it’s pushed to subsequent week. Kierny agreed and set a Feb. 18 date for it. Kierny mentioned she thought Davis was absent as a result of he was within the different listening to.
The trial is scheduled to start in March.
A grand jury indicted Davis individually final week on costs of battery and difficult somebody to a battle, transferring that case from Justice Courtroom to state District Courtroom. He’s scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, the Las Vegas Overview-Journal reported.
A correctional officer instructed grand jurors that he was escorting Davis again to his unit when he and the opposite man exchanged phrases after which began combating in a standard room, in line with the Overview-Journal. Davis’ authorized staff mentioned he was ambushed and acted in self-defense.
Within the Shakur case, Arnold argues that Davis by no means ought to have been charged due to immunity agreements that Davis says he reached years in the past with federal and native prosecutors whereas residing in California.
Kierny has mentioned Davis shouldn’t be protected against prosecution as a result of he lacks proof of any such agreements.
Prosecutors say they’ve sturdy proof towards him, together with his personal accounts of the capturing in a tell-all memoir. Davis, an ex-gang chief, is accused of orchestrating the killing close to the Las Vegas Strip.
