A judge has again denied bail toTupac Shakurmurder suspect Duane Keffe D Davis over doubts about the source of the bond money.
Ata July hearing, Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny rejecteda $112,500 down payment to secure Davis $750,000 bond, noting that the payment allegedly from music executive Cash Wack 100 Jones was tied to an exclusive interview with Davis.
Kierny was also concerned that if the bond payment was a gift that came from some third-party entertainment company and not a familial connection, Davis would have little incentive to comply with orders and appear at trial.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis appears in court during a bond hearing at the Regional Justice Center Tuesday, August 27, 2024, in Las VegasBizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal, Pool
Another hearing on the matter occurred on Tuesday, during which Davis legal team attempted to provide documentation that the bond payment was legitimate and obtained legally.
However, as Kierny pointed out, the two letters provided to the court were written identically, and that both letters had issues with the signees: One letter was signed by a person with no known ties to Wack 100s production company, and the other letter was signed by a misspelled name and provided an address that matched up with a doctors office,theAssociated Pressreported.
When faced with these issues, Davis lawyer Carl Arnold admitted to the court that a bail bond agent provided copy-and-paste wordage for both letters, which as the prosecutors pointed out could potentially result in charges for the bail bond agent, as submitting a false document to the court is a felony.
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Prosecutors, who would prefer if Davis remained behind bars until trial, previously argued in July that under Nevada law, criminals are unable to profit off their crimes, which is essentially what Davis would be doing by sitting for an exclusive interview with Wack 100 in exchange for the bail money.
However, Davis lawyer Arnold argued that since Davis has not been convicted of any crime yet, that law does not apply.
Davis trial formurder with the use of a deadly weaponin the 1996 death of Shakur was scheduled to begin in November, but the judge pushed the trial to March 17, 2025 at Tuesdays hearing.
