(12 Feb 2025)
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Las Vegas – 27 August 2024
1. Wide of courtroom
2. Medium of Duane "Keffe D" Davis
3. Tight of Duane "Keffe D" Davis hands
4. Wide to tight zoom of Judge Carli Kierny
UPSOUND (English) Judge Carli Kierny, Clark County District Court:
“I don’t find there’s enough to reconsider my initial finding that the defense hasn’t made a case about that this was from a legitimate source and the reason for it. Ultimately, I don’t want to accuse anyone of anything, but I sense the things that are trying to be covered up and ultimately what’s being presented to me. Additionally, I personally also don’t buy that there’s enough new information being presented to me to reconsider the proof of presumption of the findings. So the motion to reconsider denied and counter-motion is also denied."
5. Tight of judge desk
6. Tight of court emblem
7. Tight of Duane "Keffe D" Davis
UPSOUND (English) Duane Davis, defendant:
“In June you was doing a law that don’t pertain to me. You kept on going. Then the next, in July you did the same thing. You say the law that don’t pertain to me. And that’s wrong. And, one other thing. Another thing…"
UPSOUND (English) Judge Carli Kierny, Clark County District Court
“Your attorney is going to potentially appeal so we’ll get some clarity on this."
8. Medium of Davis
9. Tight of Davis
10. Pan of Davis being led out of court
STORYLINE:
The only suspect ever charged in the killing of Tupac Shakur did not appear in court Tuesday for a hearing on whether his defense team is prepared to go to trial.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis also did not attend a scheduled hearing in another case, in which he is accused of fighting with another man at the Clark County Detention Center in late December.
A spokesperson for Davis’ attorney declined to say why he did not attend either hearing. The Associated Press left messages with the detention center seeking more information.
Davis, who pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the 1996 death of the rap icon in Las Vegas, has been jailed since his September 2023 arrest.
Lawyer Carl Arnold told Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny that Davis would “probably want to be here” for the trial readiness hearing and requested that it be pushed to next week. Kierny agreed and set a Feb. 18 date for it. Kierny said she thought Davis was absent because he was in the other hearing.
The trial is scheduled to begin in March.
A grand jury indicted Davis separately last week on charges of battery and challenging someone to a fight, moving that case from Justice Court to state District Court. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
A correctional officer told grand jurors that he was escorting Davis back to his unit when he and the other man exchanged words and then started fighting in a common room, according to the Review-Journal. Davis’ legal team said he was ambushed and acted in self-defense.
In the Shakur case, Arnold argues that Davis never should have been charged because of immunity agreements that Davis says he reached years ago with federal and local prosecutors while living in California.
Kierny has said Davis is not protected from prosecution because he lacks proof of any such agreements.
Prosecutors say they have strong evidence against him, including his own accounts of the shooting in a tell-all memoir. Davis, an ex-gang leader, is accused of orchestrating the killing near the Las Vegas Strip.
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