Keefe D, the murder suspect of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, recently filed a motion to dismiss all charges against him citing delays in his case.
Duane “Keefe D” Davis – who is under house arrest until trial after posting $750,000 bail – is a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of orchestrating Shakur’s death in 1996.
A new filing by Davis’ attorney suggests that after the case was so unduly delayed, those charges should be dismissed.
The petition filed on Monday, January 6 in Las Vegas by suspect Carl E.G. Arnold’s attorney asserts that his client’s constitutional rights were violated by his having to wait for trial according to a long schedule.
The lawyer argued that the “unwarranted” lapse of time had caused “faded memories, the death or disappearance of witnesses and the loss or destruction of physical evidence”. ABC News.
“The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has since 2009 held the same series of events that District Attorney Clark now alleges make Mr. Davis responsible for the murder of Tupac Shakur,” Arnold stated in the filing.
The attorney added that the Clark County District Attorney’s Office “offered no reason why it had to wait another 14 years to prosecute the case against” his client, Keefe D.
Arnold argued that the case had been “irreversibly” compromised and that his client’s rights had been violated “in an extraordinary manner never before witnessed in the history of the United States criminal justice system.” Ky.”
In addition to the lengthy and reportedly inexcusable delay, the attorney also cited an immunity agreement allegedly initially offered by police officers to entice Keefe D to tell his story – this is not done. Back in 2009, Keefe D sat with Sin City detectives to recall his side of events in exchange for an offer agreement – a written contract between the defendant or witness and the prosecutor. prosecutors allow information about crimes without the prosecutor’s ability to use it against them later. during criminal proceedings.
“The State of Nevada learned in 2009 of the resulting facts [Davis’] arrested in 2023, specifically his alleged statement that he was in a white Cadillac and delivered a gun to the passenger in the back seat, which was used to shoot Tupac Shakur,” Arnold said , and called on prosecutors to “now honor the original 2008 offer agreement and LVMPD’s promise not to prosecute Mr. Davis.”
The attorney called on prosecutors to refuse to “honor the agreements that the federal government and LVMPD provided to Mr. Davis,” per ABC News. That said, the media reported that detectives “made no promise to never prosecute Davis,” according to the transcript.
A hearing on Davis’ motion for dismissal is scheduled for January 21. VIBES. If the motion is denied, the trial will continue starting March 17.
— Originally published on Enstarz
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