Could Keffe D's 2008 Interview Set Him Free?

In 2008, Duane "Keffe D" Davis sat down with the LAPD and gave a detailed account of his alleged role in the murder of Tupac Shakur, in exchange for what he believed was protection from prosecution. That proffer became one of the central pieces of evidence in the case against him, alongside interviews on BET's "Death Row Chronicles" and a 2019 memoir where he wrote about handing his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson the gun used in the shooting. Judge Carli Kierny has ruled his own statements admissible for trial, and his defense team's argument that the 2008 deal should have protected him from prosecution has already been rejected once. There's no murder weapon in this case. There's no DNA. Anderson denied involvement before he was killed in Compton in 1998, leaving Davis's own words as the backbone of the prosecution's case. After his 2023 arrest, Davis reversed course entirely, telling ABC News he's innocent and that fifteen years of confessions were only ever about selling books. He even claimed he wasn't in Las Vegas that night, contradicting what he'd published himself. Las Vegas police had his 2008 statements on record for years before making an arrest. The gap between what they knew and when they acted stretched to fourteen years. Every motion the defense has filed since the 2023 arrest, immunity, suppression, dismissal over the delay, has failed. Davis is 63, facing life without parole, and the trial is now underway with a jury that has to decide what his own words are actually worth. Mopreme Shakur says the Shakur family has waited thirty years to watch this play out in front of twelve strangers, and he's not the only one who's noticed how long it took to get here.
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