Jury finds Duane Davis guilty in murder of Tupac Shakur

Duane Davis faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison, if convicted.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis for the murder of Tupac Shakur.

The jurors retired Monday after a marathon day of closing arguments that broke only briefly for a bathroom break and to get Davis a cough lozenge from Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny's personal stash.

Davis is charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. If convicted, the 63-year-old faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.

Prosecutors say Davis did not fire the gun that killed Shakur in a drive-by shooting on Sept. 7, 1996 -- they allege that was the work of either Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, Davis' nephew, or another man in the backseat of the car.

Police and prosecutors have accused Davis, an admitted longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang, of being the "shot caller" and handing the gunman the murder weapon.

Even without Davis' numerous confessions to his role in the killing of Tupac Shakur, the case is "drenched with circumstantial evidence" and corroborating witnesses, prosecutor Binu Palal told the jury during his closing argument Monday. That -- taken together with Davis' incriminating and consistent accounts to police, to the media, and on the pages of his self-published memoir -- overwhelmingly show his guilt, Palal argued.

"For nearly 18 years, Duane Davis has told the police, television, books, YouTube interviewers -- anybody that will listen, he has told -- he is responsible for the murder of Tupac Shakur," Palal said. "Tell him you hear him -- find him guilty."

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