Keffe D and his protection crew filed a movement to throw out proof cops seized throughout what they name an unlawful nighttime search of his Henderson dwelling.
Protection legal professional Robert Draskovich argued police violated his shopper’s rights once they raided the 62-year-old’s home in July 2023.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis faces homicide expenses for orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s 1996 capturing loss of life in Las Vegas. Draskovich filed the 24-page movement on December 22 in Clark County District Courtroom, claiming cops had no legitimate cause for the nighttime search.
“When officers receive nighttime authorization by unhealthy religion, courts agree suppression is suitable,” the movement states, in response to CBS8. “Unhealthy religion is obvious from the face of the affidavit supporting the search warrant.”
The protection argues police painted Keffe D as a harmful drug seller when his drug convictions had been 25 years previous.
They are saying he was truly a 60-year-old retired most cancers survivor who lived quietly in the identical Henderson dwelling for practically a decade. Cops seized laptops, tablets, a USB drive, marijuana, a Vibe Journal subject about Shakur, and Keffe D’s 2019 guide “Compton Avenue Legend” through the search.
The movement included 186 pages of supporting paperwork itemizing all seized objects.
Keffe D turned a goal after years of public admissions about his function in Tupac’s homicide. In his 2019 memoir Compton Avenue Legend, he wrote detailed accounts of the September 7, 1996, capturing that killed the rap icon.
“I do know the true f###### story,” he wrote within the guide, describing what occurred the evening Tupac acquired shot in Las Vegas. The previous Southside Compton Crips shot caller admitted he was within the white Cadillac when somebody fired the deadly pictures.
Keffe D beforehand instructed cops in 2008 and 2009 interviews that he orchestrated the hit. He claimed his nephew, Orlando “Child Lane” Anderson, pulled the set off after Tupac and Loss of life Row Information associates jumped Anderson on the MGM Grand earlier that evening.
The homicide case sat chilly for many years till Keffe D began speaking publicly about his involvement. His admissions in interviews, documentaries and his guide gave prosecutors the proof they wanted to lastly file expenses in September 2023.
Keffe D faces renewed worldwide consideration when 50 Cent’s Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning featured unreleased conversations in regards to the Tupac homicide.
The documentary, which premiered in December 2025, included beforehand unheard audio of Keffe D discussing the case with Las Vegas prosecutors.
The collection introduced recent scrutiny to his claims about Sean “Diddy” Diddy allegedly providing cash for Tupac’s homicide. Keffe D has repeatedly alleged that Combs put a bounty on Tupac’s and Loss of life Row Information founder Suge Knight’s heads.
In taped classes featured within the documentary, Keffe D revealed {that a} yr earlier than Tupac’s homicide, Diddy allegedly made basic threats about wanting Tupac and Knight lifeless.
Courtroom paperwork and interviews have revealed allegations involving Eric “Von Zip” Martin, who Keffe D claims was Diddy’s middleman within the alleged homicide plot.
He has alleged that Von Zip was alleged to ship $1 million from Diddy after Tupac’s killing.
In FBI interviews, Keffe D claimed Von Zip saved the cash as an alternative of paying the Crips who carried out the hit. These allegations recommend a posh net of connections between East Coast rap figures and West Coast gang members within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
Diddy has denied any involvement in Tupac’s homicide.
Keffe D was additionally hit when a 16-40 months at Excessive Desert State Jail for a jailhouse combat final spring.
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