2Pac‘s alleged killer, Duane “Keefe D” Davis, will have to face charges after all, now that a judge has decided that he does not have immunity.
According to Clark County, Nevada District Court records viewed by HipHopDX, on Tuesday (January 21), Judge Carli Kierny denied Keefe D’s motion to dismiss the charges against him.
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The motion to dismiss was filed on January 6. In it, the former gang member claims that his constitutional rights have been violated through an “unjustified” delay in proceedings, which have led to “dimming of memories, the death or disappearance of witnesses, and the loss or destruction of material physical evidence.”
According to ABC News, Keefe’s attorney argued that the facts in the case have been in possession of Las Vegas police since 2009 and that the delay in charing him has “irreversibly” compromised his right to a fair trial.
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The motion also claims that prosecutors have no evidence beyond Keefe D’s own testimony due to the death or incarceration of others associated with the 1996 killing, such as Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight and his former rival Diddy, who Keefe once claimed ordered Pac’s murder.
The filing further argues that Keefe D was initially offered an immunity agreement by the authorities, which enticed him to give them details relating to the fatal shooting. One of those agreements was reportedly with the LAPD as part of their investigation into the murder of The Notorious B.I.G.
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Prosecutors denied there was any proof of such agreements.
After the decision, Keefe’s lawyer Carl Arnold addressed the media.
“There’s no evidence that he was involved [in Pac’s murder],” he said. “He did what Detective [Greg] Kading did: he put out a book, and he made money. Even the state’s main investigation that testified at the grand jury said this is all about making money.”
Keefe wrote about Pac’s murder in his 2019 book Compton Street Legend, though his attorneys later claimed that prosecutors “did not delineate which parts of the book, if any, were written by Duane” as opposed to his co-author.
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They also said that statements he made regarding 2Pac’s murder were just for “entertainment purposes.”
