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    No gun, no car, no witnesses: Lawyer says police have nothing but suspect’s stories in Tupac Shakur killing

    by Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Oct 19, 2023 7 minutes
    Duane Davis appears in court at the Regional Justice Center, on Oct. 4, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    While Las Vegas Metro police had 27 years to make a case in the slaying of Tupac Shakur, a new lawyer for the man accused of orchestrating the killing says authorities have no gun, no car and no witnesses.

    The arraignment for Duane “Keffe D” Davis in Shakur’s 1996 killing was delayed Thursday for a second time, postponed for two weeks while a new lawyer, Ross Goodman, seeks to take over legal representation.

    Authorities have said some of the most compelling evidence in the shooting comes from the suspect himself.

    But Goodman, the son of former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, questioned how authorities could verify the stories Davis, a former Compton gang leader, has recounted of his involvement in the deadly confrontation on Sept. 7, 1996.

    “As everyone here knows, you have to corroborate those statements. You don’t have a car, you don’t have a gun and you don’t have witnesses to corroborate with what Mr. Davis said under those circumstances,” Goodman said. “I believe there is an obvious defense to that — why he made those statements and a motive for making those

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