Man charged in Tupac Shakur homicide seeks proof dismissal from case

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Attorneys for a Las Vegas man charged within the 1996 homicide of rap legend Tupac Shakur declare in a brand new movement that authorities carried out an "illegal" nighttime search of the previous gang chief’s house based mostly on false data.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis’s attorneys filed a movement Monday with the Clark County District Court docket in Nevada to toss out proof collected throughout a search carried out by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division.

Davis was arrested in 2023 for Shakur’s murder and is predicted to stand trial subsequent August.

Robert Draskovich and William Brown declare within the movement {that a} choose relied on a "deceptive portrait" of Davis that portrayed him as a gang chief, "when actually his drug convictions have been [25] years outdated, and he was now a [60]-year-old retired most cancers survivor that had lived quietly in the identical Henderson house for practically a decade," the movement stated, in response to KLAS-TV .

LAWYERS FOR SUSPECTED TUPAC SHAKUR KILLER CLAIM HIS WORDS WERE TWISTED, WANT HIM RELEASED FROM JAIL

Duane Davis, left, seems to be again throughout a listening to on claims of juror misconduct in his jailhouse battery case on the Regional Justice Heart, July 2, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Assessment-Journal through AP, Pool, File)

"Second, the courtroom neglected the case-specific urgency or security considerations Nevada regulation requires to justify nighttime searches, accepting as a substitute generic security theories that may apply to nearly any search of any house," the attorneys added.

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"The courtroom wasn’t advised any of this," the attorneys argued within the movement. "In consequence, the court authorized a nighttime search based mostly on a portrait of Davis that bore little resemblance to actuality — a clearly inaccurate factual willpower, in different phrases."

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division for remark.

Duane "Keefe D" Davis arrives in a Las Vegas courtroom, Oct. 19, 2023, for his arraignment on homicide prices within the demise of rapper Tupac Shakur. (John Locher/POOL/AFP through Getty Pictures)

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The division declined to remark to The Related Press on Friday, however stated on the time of the warrant {that a} nighttime search would permit them to encompass his house and extra safely evacuate residents if Davis barricaded himself within the house.

Davis has pleaded not responsible to the homicide and sought in November to dismiss the fees towards him.

Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by capturing in 1996. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Pictures)

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"Consider it this fashion: Shakur’s homicide was primarily the leisure world’s JFK assassination — endlessly dissected, mythologized, monetized — so it’s not onerous to see why somebody in Davis’s place may falsely place himself on the middle of all of it for private achieve," his attorneys stated in a petition to the Nevada Supreme Court docket that was denied.