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The long-running public fascination with the death of Tupac Shakur has entered another historic chapter as a new murder trial begins. For decades, questions surrounding one of hip-hop’s most influential figures have continued to shape music history, criminal investigations, and popular culture.
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00:00Dwayne Kef D. Davis walked into a Las Vegas courtroom this week to face a jury for the
00:05murder of Tupac Shakur. It has taken almost 30 years, one confession-filled memoir, and nearly
00:11200 witnesses to get here. And this section walks through everything that's happened so far.
00:17The man who prosecutors say orchestrated the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur is scheduled to
00:24go to trial Monday, almost 30 years after the fatal drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
00:30So let's get into everything we know about the trial that's finally begun.
00:34Davis, 63, faces one count of murder with a deadly weapon and an allegation that the crime was
00:40intended to promote further or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty and has remained
00:46jailed since late 2023, while the trial is expected to last roughly a month. That's the man at the
00:53center of this. Now here's the twist that makes this case different from almost every murder trial
00:58you've ever heard of. The prosecution's theory does not require Davis to have been the person
01:04who pulled the trigger. Prosecutors allege he was the shot caller who arranged the attack and supplied
01:09the weapon. While Davis' defense attorneys argue there is no evidence he directed the shooting.
01:15So this isn't a whodunit in the classic sense. Nobody in that courtroom is claiming they know for
01:21certain who pulled the trigger that night. What they're arguing about is who put the gun in the
01:25car and who gave the order. And here's where it gets stranger. Prosecutors say Davis was the shot
01:31caller of the group that fatally shot Tupac in Wounded Knight in 1996 and is the only person among
01:38them still alive. And the prosecution's case is largely built on the defendant's own words,
01:44including his book, podcast, and documentary interviews and statements to police.
01:48The jury will not have a murder weapon, getaway vehicle, or surveillance video of the shooting.
01:54But they'll have his statements. A prosecutor put it plainly in a court filing, saying,
01:58In this case, almost all of the evidence the state will seek to introduce will be to establish the
02:04credibility of defendants' various accounts of his role in the killing of Tupac Shakur.
02:09Let that sink in. The man on trial is in a very real way. Also the star witness against himself.
02:16Now let's talk about who else is being called to that stand. Because this witness list reads like
02:21a who's who of 90s hip-hop, and it includes a name nobody thought would ever agree to testify.
02:28Suge Knight appears on the witness list as Keith D heads to trial for Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder
02:34in Las Vegas, putting hip-hop's surviving eyewitness under oath. With a witness list naming Marion,
02:40Suge Knight among those expected. When jury selection began August 10, Knight is the only
02:46surviving witness besides Keith D from the 1996 shooting. And he drove the BMW when gunfire
02:53struck Tupac on September 7, 1996, surviving with minor injuries. This is a man who told TMZ back in
03:012023, flat out, that he wasn't going to do this. In a 2023 interview with TMZ, Knight said he would
03:08not testify, saying 1,000% I wouldn't go. And I wouldn't testify, none of that. But three years
03:15later, his name is sitting right there on the state's filing. And prosecutors are treating him
03:20as one of the most important people they can put in front of a jury. Knight isn't alone on that
03:25list
03:25either. He is among 200 high-profile witnesses. The state intends to call, including Nevada's current
03:32governor and former mayor. Additional witnesses listed include Shakur's sister and stepbrother.
03:37Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman and Nevada Gov, Joe Lombardo, who was a metro sergeant at the
03:44time of the murder. On top of that, former lapped detective Greg Kading, who has long maintained
03:49that Davis admitted his role in the shooting during a 2009 interview with investigators,
03:55is also expected to be among the witnesses. So you've got a sitting governor, a former mayor,
04:01a convicted felon serving 28 years in a California prison, and a retired detective,
04:06all being pulled into the same courtroom. Over a shooting that happened nearly three decades ago.
04:12That's the scale of what's unfolding in Las Vegas right now, and it's only the beginning of what we
04:17know. To understand why this trial is happening at all, you have to go back to the night that started
04:23it. On SEPT-7, 1996, Tupac Shakur was in the passenger seat of a black BMW. And Death Row Records'
04:30co-founder Marion, Suge, Knight was driving. And Shakur and Knight had just watched Mike Tyson
04:36defeat Bruce Seldon in a boxing match. And were traveling to a nightclub, where Shakur was
04:40scheduled to perform. But the night didn't start smoothly, before they ever got in that car there
04:46was a fight. Shakur and associates of Death Row Records arrived in Las Vegas, for the Mike Tyson
04:52slash Bruce Seldon boxing match at MGM Grand. And after the match, Shakur, Death Row Records' head
04:58Marion, Suge, Knight. And others ran into Orlando, Baby Lane, Anderson, Davis' nephew, on the casino
05:04floor. That encounter turned physical. Security camera footage from inside the MGM Grand Lobby has
05:11circulated for years showing Shakur and his entourage jumping Anderson, stomping him in front of a hallway
05:17of casino guests. It's one of the most replayed pieces of video in hip-hop history. And it's the spark
05:23that everything after it traces back to. Hours later, Tupac and Suge left the MGM Grand and started
05:30driving down the strip. At a red light near the Las Vegas Strip, a white Cadillac pulled up beside
05:35them. And a shooting occurred, and Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. While Knight
05:41survived with minor injuries, no arrests were made. No weapon was recovered. For years, the investigation
05:48into who was in that Cadillac. And who fired those shots went cold, and it stayed cold for a very
05:53long
05:54time. So how did we get from a cold case in 1996 to a trial finally opening in 2026? The
06:01answer isn't
06:01new forensic evidence, and it isn't a surprise witness who suddenly came forward. The answer is
06:07that the man now sitting at the defense table basically told the story himself over and over for
06:13money. Dwayne Davis, who goes by the nickname Kef D, wrote a tell-all book in 2019, laying out his
06:19role
06:19in the fatal shooting of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur. And the book, Compton Street Legend, opens in Las
06:26Vegas on the night of September 7, 1996, with a play-by-play account of his plan to confront Tupac
06:32and Death Row Records CEO Marion Suge, knight in retaliation for an earlier fight. Davis wrote that he
06:39got a gun, hopped in a Cadillac with three others, and drove around looking for the pair, and they
06:44spotted Tupac in a car, and then pulled up next to it, he wrote. He didn't stop at the book
06:49either,
06:50he gave interviews, he sat for documentaries, he went on podcasts. The mystery faded in recent years
06:56as Dwayne Keith Davis, who goes by Kef D, repeatedly stated that he was involved in the killing, and wrote
07:02about it in Compton Street Legend, his 2019 memoir about gang life. And his comments led the authorities
07:09to reopen the case. Prosecutors were watching all of it, and once his own words were sitting out
07:15there in print, in interviews, and on camera, they had something they'd never had before. A defendant
07:20who publicly narrated his own alleged involvement, over and over again, in front of an audience that
07:26ate it up. Fast forward to that arrest, and it's clear the book didn't just make him famous in true
07:32crime circles. It built the entire case against him. Davis, now 63, is the first person charged in
07:39connection with the fatal shooting. He was picked up in Henderson, Nevada, in the fall of 2023. And
07:45he's been sitting in the Clark County Detention Center, ever since. What makes this so unusual,
07:50is that this isn't a case built on forensics catching up to a suspect. It's a case built on
07:55a man who spent years, selling his own story. Apparently not realizing, or not caring, that every
08:01word could end up read back to him by a prosecutor. That single decision, to write the book, to keep
08:07talking, to keep going on camera, is the reason there's a jury in Las Vegas, right now hearing
08:12opening statements. Everything else in this trial, every witness, every legal fight over what evidence
08:18gets in, flows from that one fact. Kef D talked himself into a courtroom. Now let's get into what
08:24prosecutors are actually trying to prove. Because it's not as simple as he confessed, case closed.
08:30Davis was arrested in September 2023, and has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with
08:37the use of a deadly weapon. And he is not accused of killing Shakur, but of providing the gun that
08:42was
08:42used in the drive-by shooting. That distinction matters. The state doesn't need to prove Davis fired
08:48a single shot. They need to prove he armed the people in that Cadillac and directed what happened
08:53next. Prosecutors will have to overcome a few key hurdles in their case. And it's been nearly 30 years
08:59since Tupac's death. Nearly three decades is a long time for memories to fade, for physical evidence
09:05to disappear, and for witnesses to die. There's no gun, there's no getaway car sitting in an evidence
09:11locker. There's no grainy security tape of the shooting itself. What there is, is Davis's own
09:17mouth. That's why the fight over his book and interviews has become the entire battlefield of
09:22this trial before it even started. His defense team has spent months trying to keep that material
09:27out of the courtroom. And the disputes over it go back to well before the trial date was even locked
09:33in. His attorneys contend that the book was fictionalized and had a co-author, making it
09:38impossible to know which parts Davis wrote. And the lawyers also argued Davis' interview with a federal
09:44task force probing the deaths of Christopher Wallace and Tupac Shakur was supposed to be confidential
09:50and not used against him. On paper, that's a real problem for prosecutors to solve. If a defense
09:56team can convince a jury that a book was ghostwritten, embellished, or written purely to sell copies,
10:02then every dramatic line in it becomes a lot less useful as evidence of what actually happened that
10:08night. But the judge overseeing this case has already ruled on most of that fight. And the rulings
10:13mostly went in the state's favor. Michael Sanford, Davis' attorney, filed three motions attempting to
10:20sequester the jury and dismiss evidence, including the 2019 book and recorded interviews. And in June,
10:26Clark County District Court Judge Carly Kearney denied jury sequestration in part. And Kearney
10:32sided with prosecutors that the 2019 book was admissible, but said she took issue with the
10:37recordings conducted by police of Davis, saying it was not clearly admissible. So the book is in,
10:43that's a massive win for the state, since it's the single most detailed account Davis ever gave of
10:49what supposedly happened that night. The recorded police interviews are a murkier situation, and that
10:55fight over immunity has been one of the most contested parts of the pretrial process. A central
11:00dispute heading into trial involves Davis' 2019 tell-all book about Shakur's murder and various media
11:07interviews Davis gave over the years. And the question before the court is whether a 2008 interview
11:13Davis gave to the lab under a promise of immunity shields, the public statements he later made.
11:19With prosecutor Binu Palo arguing the immunity agreement does not protect Davis' subsequent public
11:25accounts. The prosecutor laid out exactly how they planned to use Davis' own inconsistency against him
11:31in court, essentially previewing their strategy. Palo told the court that Sanford, through the course
11:36of the trial, will tell jurors the 2009 story he gave on Beck Chronicles was a lie. And that when
11:42he wrote
11:43it in the book, that was also a lie. Adding that Davis is going to celebrate the notion that his
11:48own
11:48accounts contradict each other. That's the strange trap Davis built for himself. If his defense argues
11:54the book and the interviews are all lies made up to sell a story, they're essentially asking a jury to
11:59believe their client is, by his own admission, a habitual and detailed liar about a murder. And if the jury
12:05believes even part of what he said was true, prosecutors don't need much else. Now let's talk about what
12:11evidence beyond his own words might come in. Because a 2008 interview has cleared a major
12:17hurdle already. One recent ruling that's already public involves a court decision on whether the
12:23earlier police interview material can be shown to jurors. According to reporting on defense strategy
12:29heading into trial, multiple outlets have confirmed the judge allowed a 2008 police interview into the
12:36trial, giving prosecutors another piece of Davis' own account to work with alongside the memoir.
12:41That interview, combined with the book, combined with years of on-camera interviews and podcast
12:47appearances, gives the state layers of statements to compare against each other, looking for
12:52consistency that supports guilt and looking to expose any inconsistency as evasion rather than
12:58fiction. This is why prosecutors described their strategy the way they did in that filing about
13:03credibility. They're not trying to prove a shooting happened, everyone already agrees it did.
13:08They're trying to prove that when Davis talked about his role, over and over, across a decade
13:13of interviews, he was telling something close to the truth, and that the version where he denies
13:18everything now is the actual lie. That brings us to the man Davis has spent years blaming for the
13:24trigger pull, his own nephew. Davis in a memoir pinned the killing on his nephew, Orlando Baby Lane
13:30Anderson, saying he was in Anderson's car on a Las Vegas interstate the night of Sept 7, 1996, when Shakur
13:38was shot and killed. But Anderson can't defend himself or confirm anything, because Anderson, who denied
13:44involvement in the death, was killed in a 1998 shooting in Compton, California. That's another wrinkle
13:51prosecutors have to navigate. The person Davis names as the actual shooter isn't around to be cross-examined,
13:57confirm anything, or deny it under oath. The jury will only ever hear Davis's version
14:03of what Anderson supposedly did, filtered entirely through a defendant with every incentive to shift
14:09blame. Let's dig deeper into who's actually going to take that stand. Because the list tells its own
14:15story about how big this case has become, he is among 200 high-profile witnesses the state intends to
14:21call. With a newly released list of nearly 200 witnesses slated to testify. When Dwayne Kefti,
14:28Davis goes on trial next week for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. Beyond Sujnight and the political
14:35names already mentioned, the filing includes people connected to every corner of that era.
14:41Additional names mentioned in the document include Kirk Burroughs, the founder of Bad Boy Records,
14:46Paula Clemens, Davis' wife, and Eugene Jean Deal, Diddy's bodyguard. Yusuf Jha, the co-author of
14:52Davis' 2019 book. And Leonard Jefferson, who took a photo of Tupac and Suj in the car minutes before
14:59the shooting. Along with Trevon Lane, who was involved in a brawl with Tupac Shakur at the MGM Grand.
15:05In the hours before the shooting, and Rashina Smith, the girlfriend of Orlando Anderson. And Frank
15:10Alexander, Tupac's bodyguard the night of the shooting, who died in 2013. That's not a list you
15:16build for a simple case. That's a list you build when you're trying to reconstruct nearly three
15:21decades of relationships, feuds, and business rivalries. In front of a jury, who mostly wasn't
15:27even born when the shooting happened. And that reconstruction requires explaining the world Tupac and
15:32Davis were both living in. Because none of this happened in isolation. Hundreds of pages of grand jury
15:39transcripts portray Tupac, Shakur's shooting, as a culmination of a long-standing feud. Between
15:44rival record labels, Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records. And rival gang sects Mob Peru and Southside
15:51Compton Crips. With witnesses saying Southside Compton Crips hung out with him and provided
15:56protection to Bad Boy Records. Which was founded by Sean Diddy Combs and included rappers like the
16:02Notorious B.I.G. So this trial isn't really contained to one shooting. It's the state trying to
16:08walk a jury through a war between two record labels and two street gangs. That spilled into music
16:14videos, diss tracks, and eventually into two of the most famous unsolved murders in American history,
16:20Tupacs and Biggies. When Shakur died, he was in the midst of a fierce battle for dominance.
16:25In a music scene increasingly shaped by rival gangs, Davis himself has always insisted his story
16:31only covers one side of that ledger. In his 2019 book and in online interviews,
16:36Davis has publicly said he was sitting in the front passenger seat of the car. Which pulled up
16:42side by side with Shakur's before the shooting near the Las Vegas Strip. He's also repeatedly claimed
16:48he knows more than just his own case. According to one report tied to his public statements over the
16:54years, Davis has said he didn't kill either Tupac or the Notorious B.I.G. but claims to know who
17:00did.
17:00That's a claim that's never been tested in front of a jury. And this trial won't resolve the Biggie case
17:06either way. But it shows how tangled these two murders have always been in the public imagination.
17:12Now back to Suj Knight, because his role in this case deserves its own spotlight. He's not just a
17:17witness, he's the only other person who was physically inside that BMW when the shots were fired.
17:23Knight, who was driving the BMW with Shakur in the passenger seat. When a white Cadillac pulled alongside
17:29them and opened fire, remains the sole surviving direct eyewitness inside Shakur's vehicle. And Shakur
17:36suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died six days later at a Las Vegas hospital. While Knight sustained
17:43minor injuries from bullet fragments. But getting him to actually speak isn't simple, because he's not
17:49free to just walk into a Nevada courtroom. Suj Knight, 61, was injured in the same shooting that killed
17:55Shakur. And the witness document lists his address as the California Department of Corrections, where he
18:01is currently serving a 28 year sentence for voluntary manslaughter in a fatal 2015 hit and run.
18:07That means any testimony from Knight will likely require special coordination between prisons and
18:13courts. And it's why court records show several motions have been filed for witnesses to testify
18:19remotely. Think about that for a second. The most direct living link to what happened inside that car
18:25is a man serving a decades-long sentence for an unrelated killing. And he may end up testifying
18:30over video instead of walking into the courtroom himself. That alone tells you how strange and
18:36layered this case has become over 30 years. And Knight's presence on the stand carries weight beyond
18:42just what he witnessed. For years, rumors and documentaries have floated theories about Knight's own
18:47knowledge of, or even involvement in, what happened to Tupac. He's never been charged in connection
18:53with the shooting. But putting him under oath in front of a jury, asking him to recount the Knight
18:58in detail, is something that has never happened before in the history of this case. It's the reason
19:04outlets are calling his appearance a surprising turn, given he swore for years he'd never do it.
19:09While all this evidence and witness wrangling has been happening, there's also been a very human side
19:15to this case. The fight over whether Davis should even remain locked up while it plays out.
19:20Davis bail has been a source of controversy throughout the proceedings. And in January 2024,
19:27Judge Carly Kearney of the 8th Judicial District Court set his bail at $750,000, with music manager
19:33Cash Jones, also known as WAC 100, paying $112,000 to a bail bondsman for Davis' release.
19:41That release didn't last. Prosecutors said Jones gave Davis the bail money in exchange for the rights to
19:47produce a series about Davis' life. A deal that would violate Nevada's law barring anyone from
19:52profiting off putting up bail money tied to a media deal. That arrangement got Davis sent right back
19:58to jail, and he's been there ever since. While locked up, Davis found himself in more trouble,
20:04entirely separate from the murder case. A Las Vegas jury found the man accused of orchestrating
20:09the murder of Tupac Shakur. Guilty of a jail fight unrelated to the rap icon's death. With the one-day
20:15trial covering two charges, connected to a jail fight involving Dwayne Kef D. Davis. Davis was
20:22involved in a fight inside the Clark County Detention Center with another inmate. And prosecutors charged
20:28him with battery by a prisoner and challenging a person to a fight. Having to prove the fight was not
20:34self-defense. The jury didn't buy his defense. The jury of six men and eight women took 90 minutes
20:40to come to its guilty verdict. Prosecutors even played a recording during opening statements of
20:45Davis bragging about the altercation on a jail phone call, telling someone he wore the other man out
20:51and that he was proud of himself. His attorney argued he was actually the one attacked, but the jury
20:57sided with the state. That conviction wasn't just an embarrassing footnote either. It ended up
21:02reshaping his defense team, heading into the murder trial. Davis changed legal teams in August,
21:08hiring Draskovich and Michael Pendullo to represent him. After he was found guilty of fighting another
21:14inmate while in Clark County Detention Center. New lawyers meant new strategy, and new lawyers meant
21:20new requests for time. Which is exactly what led to the trial getting pushed back. Complex confirmed
21:26that Davis' trial had been pushed back to August 10, 2026. Giving his defense team six more
21:32months to comb through the large amount of evidence. With his attorney Robert Draskovich,
21:37calling the mountain of new information, voluminous. Draskovich asked for a delay because
21:42the amount of discovery to comb through, was voluminous. And prosecutors did not object to
21:48the delay. That delay pushed the trial back from a scheduled start in early February, to the
21:53August date recovering now. And even in the days right before jury selection began, there was
21:58still another twist. Whether Davis might walk free on bail, even as the trial got underway.
22:04Davis appeared in court for the final hearing before his trial began. And the judge indicated
22:09Davis could be released on bail before facing a jury. With both sides continuing to dispute what
22:15statements Davis made to the public can be used at trial. Defense attorney Michael Samt said Davis was
22:21moving toward making bail. And though the state opposed the request, the judge said a bail release would not
22:27affect the proceedings. Adding that if Davis were to bail out tomorrow, or in the middle of trial,
22:32it wouldn't affect anything from an evidence perspective. So as of the days leading into this
22:37trial, it was genuinely possible. That the man accused of orchestrating, one of the most famous
22:42murders in music history, could be sitting somewhere other than a jail cell, while his own jury
22:48deliberates his fate. That's an outcome almost nobody would have predicted back, when he was first
22:53arrested in 2023. Even from behind bars, Davis has kept talking, which is either a sign of confidence
23:00or the same instinct that got him arrested in the first place. Dwayne Kef D. Davis, the only person
23:06ever arrested in connection with the killing of Tupac Shakur, maintained his innocence days before his
23:12murder trial began. Notably, the same defense attorney who took the case has said publicly he believes his
23:18client is innocent. Davis told a local outlet directly that he wasn't even in Las Vegas the
23:24night of the shooting. A claim that directly contradicts the version of events he spent years
23:29selling in his own book. He's also made his intentions about a plea deal very clear. Davis told
23:35KLAS TV he will reject any plea deal. And in an earlier interview, he was blunt about what he believes
23:42prosecutors actually have on him. Earlier this year, Kef D. maintained his innocence in an interview with
23:48the art of dialogue about the charges, saying, they ain't got no evidence, they don't got nothing,
23:53they know they don't have nothing. And adding, they can't even place me out here at the time of the
23:57shooting. That's the position he's walking into court with, denying the very story he spent years
24:03telling for profit. Betting that a jury will believe the book was fiction, and the confessions were
24:08theater. Now let's get into where things actually stand, as this trial gets underway. Because the
24:13mechanics of it are unlike almost anything Clark County has ever handled. Jury selection is expected
24:20to take about a week, with the trial itself projected to run as long as six weeks before
24:25Judge Carly Kearney in Clark County District Court. Given how much attention this case has drawn,
24:31the court has implemented a daily seating lottery to manage courtroom capacity once the jury is seated.
24:37That's not something you see in a routine murder case. That's crowd control for a trial that the
24:43entire hip-hop world is watching. The trial began on Monday, with jury selection that may take up to
24:49a week. After which the prosecution and the defense will outline their arguments in opening statements.
24:55Once those opening statements happen, this becomes a real trial of testimony, cross-examination and
25:01objections. Playing out in front of jurors, who have to weigh decades of contradictory public statements
25:06against each other. The most likely outcome, according to virtually everyone covering this case,
25:12is that the identity of the actual shooter never gets fully settled. The trial, which is expected
25:18to last about a month, likely won't reveal who pulled the trigger. That's an important thing to
25:23sit with. Even a conviction here doesn't answer the single question. That's haunted fans for 30 years,
25:29whose finger was actually on the trigger. What it could answer is whether the man who spent years
25:34describing his role in arranging that shooting was telling the truth, or lying for book sales.
25:39And whether a jury believes that's enough to convict him of murder. If convicted, the stakes for Davis
25:45are about as high as they get. Prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment rather than the death
25:51penalty. At 63 years old, a life sentence would almost certainly mean he never leaves prison again.
25:57Given his age and his time already served, this trial isn't just about historical justice. For a fanbase
26:03that never got answers, it's about whether Davis spends the rest of his life in custody. There's also the
26:09human weight sitting quietly in that courtroom that easily gets lost in the legal maneuvering. Tupac Shakur's
26:15family has waited three decades for any kind of accountability, and members of that family are expected
26:21to actually be in the room. Shakur's relatives, former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and Nevada Gov, Joe
26:28Lombardo, are also reportedly on the witness list. For them, this isn't really about the credibility
26:33disputes over a memoir, or whether a police interview should have been sealed. It's about
26:38finally getting to sit in a room and hear someone answer, under oath, for what happened to someone
26:43they loved. And there's still an entire month or more of testimony ahead. Nearly 200 names on that
26:49witness list won't all take the stand. Prosecutors and the defense will each choose which ones actually
26:55matter to their case. But even a fraction of that list means weeks of testimony from record label
27:00executives, police detectives, gang members, political figures, and family. Every one of them
27:06adds a different piece to a story that's been told in fragments for 30 years, and is now, for the
27:11first
27:12time, being told under oath. What makes this trial genuinely historic isn't just that someone is
27:18finally facing a jury for Tupac's death. It's that the entire case rests on a defendant's own choice to
27:23tell his story, publicly, repeatedly, for years. Before anyone forced him to. Prosecutors didn't
27:30crack a cold case with new forensic technology, or a surprise confession pulled out of him under
27:35pressure. They built their case by collecting a man's own public words, and asking a jury to believe
27:41the version where he was involved, rather than the version he's telling now from behind bars.
27:46Whatever verdict comes out of that Las Vegas courtroom in the coming weeks, it will close a chapter that's
27:52been open since September of 1996. Sujnight may finally testify about the night he survived,
27:59and Tupac didn't. Family members may finally get to speak about what three decades without answers
28:05has felt like. And a jury made up of people who might not have even been alive when Tupac died,
28:10will decide whether the man who wrote his own story into a best-selling memoir, was telling the truth
28:16all along, or lying for the sake of a book deal. That ultimately put him behind bars for good.