Duane Keffe D Davis sentenced to 40 years in connection to Tupac Shakurs 1996 murder

The man convicted of orchestrating rapper Tupac Shakur’s killing in 1996 has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.The sentence includes a 20-year mandatory enhancement for profiting off the murder, Judge Carli Kierny told the court.

“You don’t get to take a man from his family,” she said to Duane “Keffe D” Davis.“You don’t get to take his very life, his whole life, and just walk away from it, especially when that man is Tupac Shakur.”Davis, 63, was found guilty in August of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon.

Much of the two-week trial hinged on Davis’ own accounts of the killing in media and in a memoir, which prosecutors said was precipitated by a scuffle between Davis’ nephew and Shakur on the night of his death.“He would have been the promise of our parents.I believe when you take away someone like that, you deserve the maximum sentence,” Shakur’s younger sister Sekyiwa Shakur said during her victim statement Tuesday.

She said her brother was “born an icon” and was raised to be a human rights activist and a protector for his family and friends.“He was a father figure to me,” Sekyiwa Shakur aded.“It wasn’t just me in everybody in our immediate family, our extended family, and as we got older, our community as a whole.”It took jurors less than three hours to convict him.

On Tuesday, Davis appeared in court shackled in handcuffs and wearing a navy blue prison uniform.When asked if he wanted to address the court, including Shakur’s family, Davis declined.

“I’m good,” he said.Pointing to five other convictions and Davis’ public boasting, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal asked for the maximum possible sentence.“Whatever your decision is, ultimately, in my mind, he deserves the maximum possible sentence because he’s earned through his actions, his behavior, who he is as he stands here today,” Palal told the judge.“He 100% deserves the maximum possible sentence.�...