The Brief A 2008 interview with Duane  Keffe D  Davis and investigators can be used during his upcoming trial. Davis is charged with murder in Tupac Shakur's murder in Las Vegas in 1996. Davis in his memoir alleged that he obtained a gun from an associate and tossed it into the back seat of a car but did not reveal who fired the shots that killed Shakur.



A judge ruled that the recording of an interview the man accused of murdering Tupac Shakur provided to authorities in 2008 could be used at his upcoming trial.

Nevada Judge Carli Kierny determined that the interview is admissible in Duane  Keffe D  Davis' trial, which is set for Aug. 10.


Davis, 63, is charged with murder in Shakur's 1996 killing and faces life in prison without parole if convicted. Prosecutors are accusing Davis of coordinating the killing.

According to The Associated Press, Davis' 2008 interview to law enforcement was used in former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading's book  Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls   Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.  Portions of the recording were also played in documentaries, including the recent documentary  Sean Combs: The Reckoning. 

Prosecutors argued there was no basis to exclude the interview from the trial, which is expected to take about four weeks.

Tupac Shakur murder case

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Tupac Shakur's death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the nation.

According to The Associated Press, the rapper's murder case went cold until Davis started making public statements about it, including in a book he co-wrote in which he claimed he was in the Cadillac and provided the gun used to shoot Shakur.

On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was killed in Las Vegas. He and Death Row Records founder Marion  Suge  Knight were sitting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up beside them near the Las Vegas Strip, and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. Knight survived with minor injuries.


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