Tupac Murder Trial: Davis Volunteered WHAT to Two Officers?!

**Tony Brueski** (0:01)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:11)
We did the other one. Those are the words that Duane Keffe D Davis volunteered to a detective, investigating a completely different homicide. Nobody in that room asked him about Tupac. He brought it up himself. LAPD detective Daryn Dupree took the witness stand on the third day of Davis' murder trial in Las Vegas. He was assigned to the Biggie Smalls homicide, not Tupac's case. Dupree met with Davis during the Biggie investigation. Davis told the detective at the time, no, we don't have anything to do with that one.
Anything to do with that one?
Okay, well, is there one you do have something to do with? That phrasing stopped Dupree Cold. That one implies the existence of another. When Dupree pressed, Davis answered, we did the other one. Dupree testified to the jury that the other one was Tupac. The statement came during a meeting. Davis attended voluntarily. Davis drew the connection himself, separating Biggie's murder from the other one and then claiming it as his own. Dupree didn't build a trap or steer Davis into admission.
Keffe Dipshit D, I mean, that's what the D stands for.
Keffe Dipshit just volunteered it on his own. Nobody prompted Davis. Nobody cornered him with evidence or let him do a confession. It was he was sitting in a room built for a different case and he volunteered his statement connecting himself to Tupac Shakur's killing on the Las Vegas Strip. Thank you, Keffe.
How did you get here? You're an idiot.
Davis is charged with orchestrating the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. Prosecutors allege he obtained a 40 caliber Glock and handed it to his nephew in the back seat of the white Cadillac. That Cadillac pulled alongside Tupac's BMW at the red light on the strip and the shots came from the rear window. Dupree wasn't the only law enforcement officer who heard Davis bring up Tupac's murder unprompted. Former FBI agent Wade Lee took the same witness stand. His encounter with Davis came years before Dupree's. Lee spent years investigating Davis for federal drug trafficking in the late 1990s and 1998 Two years after Tupac's murder, Lee sat down with Davis for what was called a proffer interview. You've heard us talking about it on the show quite a bit. A proffer is a structured meeting between a suspect and federal agents. The suspect provides information in exchange for potential consideration on other charges. The suspect walks involuntarily and talks voluntarily. Lee wasn't building a murder case. He was running a drug investigation. The proffer was designed to pull information about trafficking networks, not homicides. The Tupac investigation belonged to the LasVegas Metropolitan Police Department in a different state. Davis claimed a proffer agreement shielded him. The court ruled otherwise. No immunity protects his statements in a state murder case. Every word he spoke in that room is admissible at his trial. That ruling separates Davis' case from most proffers. Typically, the government agrees not to use a suspect's own words against him. That agreement makes the trade work. A suspect talks because his statements can't become weapons. Davis' federal agreement didn't reach a Nevada murder courtroom.
And he talked about Tupac's murder anyway. You understand what's going on here? It's a federal agreement, not a state agreement. It's a state trial. It's not a federal trial. Two different groups. Well, that's great. You made that promise and that agreement with these folks over here. That's not our group. You're over here talking about this crime that our group can go after you for. We will. And they did. And we're here.
Lee testified that Davis was already identified as a person of interest in Tupac's murder at the time of the proffer. Davis knew that. And he brought up the killing on his own anyway. Two law enforcement officers from two different agencies heard Davis connect himself to Tupac's murder. Neither was investigating Tupac's case at the time. Both times Davis raised the subject without being prompted. Then he went on TV. Then he went on podcasts. Then he wrote a book.
Seems like he really wants to be known for this. The defense found different material in the same testimony. Lee acknowledged under questioning that the FBI never independently verified Davis was in Las Vegas the night Tupac was shot. The Bureau couldn't place him at the scene. No proof that Davis ordered a hit on anyone came out of the proffer. Federal agents heard a man talk about involvement in a murder and never confirmed whether he was even in the city when it happened. That gap does matter. If the FBI investigated Davis for years and couldn't establish he was present for the killing, the question becomes, what we did the other one actually means? The defense calls it bravado. The kind of talk a drug dealer uses to sound dangerous. Davis' criminal record cuts both ways at trial. The prosecution says his criminal connection made him capable of directing a killing on the Las Vegas Strip. And the defense says a man deep in the drug world has every reason to inflate his own importance. A drug trafficker sitting across from FBI agents might claim involvement in a famous murder to sound more valuable. He might exaggerate his role to get better treatment on pending charges. Davis' history in the drug trade makes that reading at least available to the jury. Prosecution doesn't need Davis to explain why he talked. The words themselves are the evidence. The defense needs the opposite reading. Davis' decades in the drug world give the jury a reason to consider it.