29/08/2026
I would call this day another wash.
Some of the testimony was good for the defense. Some of it was good for the prosecution.
And on that last note, observe that all three witnesses called by the defense were on the prosecution's wild and woolly potential witness list.
All three once worked for LVMPD.
On September 7, 1996, retired sergeant Stan Hyt and retired Lieutenant Charles Mangrum both worked a party at Suge Knight's Las Vegas crib.
Both testified about seeing a cream-colored Caddy that night.
And if you have been listening to my podcast you know that I asked Brent Becker, one of the original homicide detectives investigating Tupac's murder, about the cream-colored Caddy----FIVE years ago.
A light-colored Cadillac is a big deal because witnesses, starting some 30 years ago, said Tupac's killer was in a white Cadillac.
So will the appearance of a whitish Caddy at Suge's home provide reasonable doubt?
Retired detective Dan Long was the final witness of the trial.
He inherited the Tupac murder investigation from Becker, retired detective Mike Franks and detective-sergeant Kevin Manning.
In 2009 he interviewed Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis a year after Keffe originally "confessed" during a proffer session in Los Angeles.
Long told the jury he felt the interview with Keffe was soooo incriminating he wanted to arrest him. Stat.
Good for the prosecution.
But folks at the Clark County District Attorney's office put the kibosh on that. Marc DiGiamoco was one of those involved in the decision making. He, of course, is now trying the case with fellow chief deputy district attorney Binu Palal.
Good for the defense.
A very wise man recently told me that you can never predict what a jury will do.
But I wonder if jurors are wondering if it was only Keffe's self-snitching book that made the difference,
And will jurors be perplexed about two prominent law enforcement figures who did not testify?
For years former LAPD detective Greg Kading has claimed to have solved the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.
He has also claimed that he took home case files from the task force he headed to help solve the case.
Kading surely made a documentary, a television series and wrote a book based on those files--including Keffe's surreptitiously recorded "confession."
Kading's name was central to the defense's opening statement.
And then there is the retired LVMPD homicide detective who went on to work on Tupac's murder case for the DA. He too was a no show.Yet I've heard on the street that he fancies himself as the best detective on the case.
Former Death Row Security head Reggie Wright Jr also has wonderful things to say about Mogg on the YouTubes and he said them to me when I interviewed him for my podcast. He, too, wonders why Mogg was not on the stand.
Mogg is another name that popped up in defense attorney Michael Sanft's opening statement.
I say all this to say that weeks ago I said I did not believe Keffe's goose was cooked. Seared. To be sure.
After listening to the testimony and seeing the exhibits I have not changed my mind.
I thought there were two witnesses on the prosecution's list who could tie Keffe to the scene.
Mob James' Falstaffian testimony was very damning to Keffe D.
However I did not hear him tell the jurors what he has said on the YouTubes: that he saw Keffe D and company lurking at the Club 662 before the shooting.
The other witness who I thought could do real damage to Keffe was his former business associate Corey "C-Ray" Edwards.
On television he has said that he was with Keffe in Las Vegas that fateful night.
But LVMPD could not catch up with him.
I'm Lena Nozizwe Reporting
More to Come
