Jury selection begins for ex-gang leader charged with Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder
Jury selection began this week in Las Vegas for Duane Davis, a former gang leader accused of orchestrating rapper Tupac Shakur's murder nearly three decades ago. First, the case has moved forward despite Davis's own memoir, published years earlier, in which he described his role in the killing — he's since claimed that account was fiction. Then there's the matter of Suge Knight, the Death Row Records executive who was in the car with Tupac when he was shot in 1996. Knight has stated he doesn't want to testify, which could complicate prosecutors' ability to establish what happened that night. And finally, the long gap between the shooting and this trial reflects how cold cases can suddenly generate new leads and witness cooperation, though the passage of time inevitably clouds memory and evidence. The trial itself will test whether a conviction can hold after nearly thirty years.
