Tupac Shakur Murder Suspect Hires Private Attorney for Upcoming Trial
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, indicted for the 1996 killing of the hip-hop icon, retains Carl Arnold, a veteran criminal defense attorney with a checkered past.
- Duane “Keffe D” Davis, former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur, has hired a private attorney, Carl Arnold, to represent him in his upcoming murder trial.
- Arnold, a veteran criminal defense attorney, has been sanctioned twice by the Nevada State Bar during his 20 years of practice.
- Davis, the only person still alive who was in the car from which shots were fired in the September 1996 shooting that killed Shakur, has for many years described his role in Shakur’s killing.
- Davis was indicted by a grand jury in Las Vegas and arrested in September outside his home in suburban Henderson. He has pleaded not guilty and remains jailed on $750,000 bail.
- Davis maintains he was given immunity from prosecution in 2008 by an FBI and Los Angeles police task force investigating the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and rival rapper Christopher Wallace, known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, six months later in Los Angeles.
Associated Press 
