Keffe D's motion to dismiss Tupac Shakur's murder case was denied due to lack of evidence for immunity deals. Prosecutors cite strong evidence, including Keffe D's own memoir, linking him to the shooting. The trial is set for March 17, with Keffe D pleading not guilty to first-degree murder.
Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny said in a decision issued Tuesday that Davis had provided no proof of any immunity deals and that "the state of Nevada has never offered" him a deal.
Davis and his lawyer had argued that he never should have been charged with murder because of immunity agreements he says he reached years ago with federal and local authorities. Attorney Carl Arnold said the indictment against his year-old client is an "egregious" violation of his constitutional rights because of a year delay in prosecution.
Prosecutors said Davis has provided no proof that he was granted immunity by authorities who interviewed him in and in the early s while he was still living in California. Prosecutors have said the evidence against Davis is strong, including his own accounts of the shooting in his tell-all memoir. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Davis is originally from Compton, California. He was arrested in September in his neighborhood near Las Vegas.
In interviews and his memoir that described his life as a leader of a Crips gang sect in Compton, Davis said he obtained a. Two other men in the car with Anderson and Davis are also dead. The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles. Emily Hernandez, a Missouri woman pardoned after her ties to the Jan. Capitol, was sentenced Wednesday in connection with a drunken-driving crash.
