Duane “Keefe D” Davis, is accused of the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur. His lawyers are seeking to suppress key evidence obtained via what they call an “unlawful nighttime search.”.
Las Vegas criminal defense lawyers Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed the motion this week on behalf of their client.
Mr Davis is charged in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting of the legendary rapper, which occurred off the Las Vegas Strip.
His attorney argues that a judge relied on a “misleading portrait” of Davis as a dangerous drug dealer to grant the execution of a search warrant at night, which should only be done in exceptional circumstances, such as if there’s a risk that evidence will disappear if officers wait until morning.
His lawyer continued saying that Keefe left the street life behind him in 2008 and began doing inspection work for oil refineries.
His defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown continued painting him in a positive light as they mentioned he is a married man with adult children and grandchildren:
“The court wasn’t told any of this,” his attorneys wrote in the motion. “As a result, the court authorized a nighttime search based on a portrait of Davis that bore little resemblance to reality — a clearly erroneous factual determination, in other words.”
At the time of the search, police said executing the warrant at night would allow officers to surround and secure the residence, and that if Davis barricaded himself, the darkness would allow officers to evacuate the surrounding homes with the least exposure to residents.
His attorneys claimed that Keefe D’s arrest stems from his false public statements he had made in which he claimed to be present in the white Cadillac from which Shakur was shot.
They say that no details that firmly corroborate his presence in the car, and that he benefited from saying he was present as he was able to dodge drug charges by telling the story in a proffer agreement,.
They also went on to say how the former South Side Crip made money by repeating these false claims in Interviews, documentaries and his 2019 book.
His attorneys wrote:
“Think of it this way: Shakur’s murder was essentially the entertainment world’s JFK assassination — endlessly dissected, mythologized, monetized — so it’s not hard to see why someone in Davis’s position might falsely place himself at the center of it all for personal gain,”
In the video below Keefe D claims that Diddy paid him and his crew to kill the rap icon.
