Overview
- The trial, which opened Monday, August 10, 2026, in Las Vegas, will begin with jury selection and is expected to run about four weeks.
- Prosecutors say Davis commanded the 1996 attack and supplied the weapon that struck Tupac Shakur, seeking a conviction that could mean life without parole.
- Davis publicly implicated himself in a 2019 memoir and prior interviews, statements that led investigators to reopen the cold case and to arrest him in 2023.
- The defendant now denies those admissions, says he was not in Las Vegas that night, and has unsuccessfully tried to keep the memoir and a 2008 police interview out of evidence.
- The trial faces limits because the three other people Davis named as occupants of the white Cadillac are dead, so the proceedings may not definitively identify who pulled the trigger and will shape ongoing civil claims from Tupac’s relatives.