Prosecutors in the US state of Nevada have pushed back on a request by Tupac Shakur’s murder suspect to be released on bail ahead of his trial.
The suspect Duane “Keefe D” Davis through his lawyers had last week asked the court to release him from custody before his trial which is slated for June 2024.
Prosecutors however strongly rejected the suspect’s request, saying it was absurd. They also provided several reasons why he shouldn’t get to walk free until his trial.
In their mitigation, the prosecutors stressed that Davis is a former high-ranking member of the South Side Compton Crips gang and has confessed multiple times to involvement in the Tupac murder over the years.
They also argued that Keefe has made credible threats to witnesses while being locked up, claiming that they have evidence, including the suspect’s own words, pointing to him orchestrating Tupac’s murder back in 1996, despite Keefe now distancing himself from those previous statements.
Nevada state prosecutors are seeking to compel the court to keep Davis behind bars until his trial date.
Last week, in a 33-page motion filed in court, Davis’s lawyers argued that the evidence used to charge their client is little more than an “astounding amount of hearsay and speculative testimony” presented to the grand jury that indicted him in late September.
While asking the court to release Davis on bail, the suspect’s lawyers wrote that the health of their 60-year-old client had deteriorated in jail and that he was not receiving proper medical attention following a bout with colon cancer that they said was in remission.
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