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Judge Sets Six-Week Trial for Tupac Shooting Case

8/19/2026

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Story summary
  • Duane “Keffe D” Davis, defendant, is on trial for 1996 shooting that killed Tupac Shakur.
  • Shooting retaliated for the beating of Davis’s nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.
  • Michael Sanft, lawyer, calls prosecution’s narrative “fiction” and says Davis’s interview lacks corroboration.
  • Lisa Gavin, medical examiner, testified Shakur was hit by three bullets, collapsing a lung.
  • Judge Carli Kierny expects a six-week trial including testimony from Marion “Suge” Knight, Death Row founder.