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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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