With seven months to go until the Tupac Shakur murder trial, Keefe D reportedly seeks to conceal key evidence in the case.
According to NME, lawyers representing the accused claim that materials were obtained during an "unlawful nighttime search." Keefe D, born Duane Keith Davis, was arrested during a September 2023 raid in Henderson, Las Vegas, where authorities seized a desktop computer, a hard drive, and copies of Keefe's 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend. The arrest came 23 years after 2Pac, a revered figure in hip-hop and film, was slain in Las Vegas.
Keffe's attorneys have also filed a motion to maintain that the judge's perspective allegedly hinges on a "misleading portrait" of their client. The legal team argues that Keefe being depicted as a menacing drug dealer was utilized for the search warrant to be allotted at night, but should be used in extreme circumstances.
According to his lawyers, Keefe left drug trafficking in 2008 and began working as an oil refinery inspector. The motion continued with describing the 60-year-old as a cancer survivor who had grown children and grandkids, and had resided in Henderson with his wife for nine years.
"The court wasn’t told any of this. As a result, the court authorized a nighttime search based on a portrait of Davis that bore little resemblance to reality – a clearly erroneous factual determination, in other words," Keefe's lawyers wrote.
Additionally, the lawyers claim that Keefe's recounting of being in the white Cadillac that contained the person who shot 2Pac was unsubstantiated, although their client said that he was present in his memoir and interviews.
"Think of it this way: Shakur’s murder was essentially the entertainment world’s JFK assassination – endlessly dissected, mythologized, monetized – so it’s not hard to see why someone in Davis’s position might falsely place himself at the center of it all for personal gain," the attorneys wrote.
Keefe has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and is scheduled to stand trial in August 2026.
