Suge Knight to testify in Duane Davis murder trial
Marion "Suge" Knight, who was driving the BMW when Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas in 1996, is expected to take the stand in the murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis. Davis, a former South Side Compton Crips leader, is accused of orchestrating the attack and supplying the weapon but is not accused of being the gunman. Prosecutors plan to call dozens of witnesses after Davis's interviews and a 2019 memoir helped revive a decades-old investigation; opening statements are set to begin and Davis faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Suge Knight expected to testify as only surviving witness to Shakur shooting
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Police lacked admissible evidence for years and the probe went cold. Davis later gave…
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