A Nevada judge did not immediately decide Tuesday if a former Los Angeles-area gang leader will be freed from jail to house arrest ahead of his murder trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
A Nevada judge did not immediately decide Tuesday if a former Los Angeles-area gang leader will be freed from jail to house arrest ahead of his murder trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny said after hearing arguments that she will issue a decision at a later time. She indicated that she was not convinced to grant Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ release.
“I don’t really see where the money is coming from,” she said, adding that a decision will come after she finishes a review of financial records.
The judge has said Davis — a self-described former leader of a Crips gang sect in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, California — could be freed on $750,000 bond if he can demonstrate that funds used to secure his release were obtained legally.
Davis, now 61, has sought to be released since shortly after his arrest last September made him the only person ever charged with a crime in a killing that for 27 years has drawn intense interest and speculation.
Prosecutors allege the gunfire that killed Shakur stemmed from competition between East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect and West Coast groups of a Crips sect, including Davis, for dominance in a musical genre known at the time as “gangsta rap.
