2026-09-01T22:50:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
杜安·“基夫·D”·戴维斯于周一因1996年图帕克·夏库尔枪击致死案被判一级谋杀罪，其辩护律师迈克尔·桑夫特指责陪审团对其当事人抱有“先入为主的观念”。
“我感到意外。陪审团本应考量大量证据，但我认为他们并未仔细审阅，”桑夫特周二在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时表示，他提到陪审团仅用了不到三小时就作出了有罪裁决。“我的看法是，他们存在先入为主的观念，正是这些观念导致了对杜安·戴维斯的定罪。”
内华达州法律并未要求陪审团在作出裁决前进行固定时长的评议。
当被问及在审判开始时是否也对陪审团的公正性抱有同样担忧时，桑夫特表示当时存在“更重大的问题”，他当时主要专注于与可采纳证据相关的各项审前动议。
据检方称，戴维斯提供了射杀夏库尔的枪支，并策划了1996年9月6日在拉斯维加斯发生的驾车枪击案，以报复当晚早些时候戴维斯的侄子奥兰多·“宝贝莱恩”·安德森遭殴打一事。副总地方检察官比努·帕拉尔指出，戴维斯当时正在“搜寻”夏库尔以及死囚唱片公司联合创始人马里恩·“苏格”·奈特，后者在枪击案中也中弹但幸存。
“这是一桩板上钉钉、绝对没有辩护余地的谋杀案，”副总地方检察官马克·迪贾科莫在结案陈词中辩称。
杜安·戴维斯于2026年8月31日在拉斯维加斯区域正义中心克拉克县地区法院的结案陈词休息期间站立。史蒂夫·马库斯/美联社 pooled 图片
尽管检方并未指控戴维斯是开枪者，但根据内华达州法律，帮助他人实施犯罪的人同样可被判谋杀罪。检方播放了2008年戴维斯接受侦探讯问的录音，录音中戴维斯称，在他将枪交给所在车辆后座的安德森后，是安德森开了枪。安德森从未因这起谋杀案被起诉，并在夏库尔遇害约20个月后死于另一桩枪击案。如今，戴维斯是据称涉案人员中唯一仍在世的人。
戴维斯对指控拒不认罪，检方曾提出以戴维斯与当局合作作为交换条件，为其提供起诉豁免，但检方称，戴维斯2019年出版的书籍《康普顿街头传奇》以及他接受的各类公开采访推翻了这一协议。在书中，戴维斯称自己当时身处涉事的凯迪拉克车内，并描述了从一名名叫埃里克·“齐普”·马丁的毒贩手中获得格洛克40手枪的经过。（他后来声称自己“从未读过”这本书，仅获得了合著者署名。）
桑夫特称卡莉·凯尔尼法官允许采纳戴维斯“其他劣迹”的决定，包括其帮派头目身份和贩毒前科，是“不恰当的”。他还对凯尔尼法官对陪审团的指示提出异议，即如果陪审团认定戴维斯的自证有罪陈述属实，就无需寻找佐证证据。
“进入审判时，我们就已经知道局势不利，”他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。“这就像一场橄榄球比赛，开球前比分就已经是52比0了。”
由于法官的指示，桑夫特表示他陷入了不得不破坏自己当事人可信度的境地。
当被问及是否仍认可这一策略时，桑夫特称这是“当一个人仅因言辞而非有事实支撑的言辞被定罪时，唯一的辩护策略”，并坚称没有证据能证明戴维斯甚至在枪击案发生当天身处拉斯维加斯。
“没有任何实际证据支持这项定罪，”他说。“人们只是觉得这么做是对的，但并非基于真实证据。”
戴维斯的量刑听证会定于10月13日举行，他最高可被判处终身监禁。桑夫特表示，他计划对定罪提出上诉，整个过程可能需要一年多时间。
Defense attorney in Tupac murder trial believes jury had “preconceived notions” and didn’t review all evidence
2026-09-01T22:50:00-0400 / CBS News
Michael Sanft, the defense attorney for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1996 shooting death of Tupac Shakur on Monday, accused the jury of harboring “preconceived notions” about his client.
“I’m surprised. With the amount of evidence that should have been considered by the jury, I don’t believe that they went through it,” Sanft said in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, referring to the less than three hours the jury took to reach the guilty verdict. “My feeling is that they had preconceived notions, and those notions was what led to the conviction for Duane Davis.”
Nevada law does not require juries to deliberate for a set amount of time before reaching a verdict.
When asked whether he had those same concerns about the jury’s impartiality at the start of the trial, Sanft said there were “bigger issues” at the time and that he was mainly focused on various pre-trial motions concerning evidence that would be allowed.
According to the prosecution, Davis procured the gun used to shoot Shakur and orchestrated the Sept. 6, 1996, Las Vegas drive-by in retaliation for the beating of Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, earlier that night. Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal stated Davis was “hunting” for Shakur and Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, who was also wounded in the shooting but survived.
“It is a slam-dunk, absolutely no defense to murder case,” argued Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo in his closing statement.
Duane Davis stands during a break in closing arguments in Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, on Aug. 31, 2026. Steve Marcus/Pool Photo via AP
While prosecutors did not allege Davis was the shooter, in Nevada, a person can be found guilty of murder if they help somebody else commit the crime. Prosecutors played audio from a 2008 interview with detectives in which Davis said it was Anderson who fired the shots after Davis passed the gun to the backseat of the car they were in. Anderson was never charged with the murder and died in an unrelated shooting about 20 months after Shakur. Today, Davis is the only person allegedly involved in the shooting who is still alive.
Davis, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, was initially offered protection from prosecution in exchange for collaborating with authorities, but the release of his book “Compton Street Legend” in 2019 and various public interviews he gave invalidated that agreement, prosecutors argued. In the book, Davis placed himself in the Cadillac involved in the shooting and described getting the Glock .40 from a drug dealer named Eric “Zip” Martin. (He later claimed that he had “never read” the book and was merely given a co-author credit).
Sanft described Judge Carli Kierny’s decision to allow evidence of Davis’ “other bad acts,” including his gang leadership and drug trafficking past, as “inappropriate.” He also took issue with Kierny’s instructions to the jury that, if they believed Davis’ self-incriminating statements, they wouldn’t need to find corroborating evidence.
“Going into the trial, we knew already that we were behind on the scoreboard,” he told CBS News. “It’s like a football game where it was 52 to 0 walking in at the opening kickoff.”
As a result of the judge’s instructions, Sanft said he was put in a position of having to undermine his own client’s credibility.
Asked if he still believes in this approach, Sanft described it as “the only defense strategy when you have an individual that’s being convicted just on his words alone, without any facts to support the words that he said,” insisting that there is no proof that Davis was even in Las Vegas on the day of the shooting.
“There is no actual evidence that supported the conviction,” he said. “There was a feeling that it was the right thing to do, but not with real evidence.”
Davis’ sentencing is set for Oct.13, and he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. According to Sanft, he plans to appeal the conviction in a process that could take over a year.