陪审团发现杜安·凯菲·戴维斯很抱歉,这段文本暂时无法提供译文
陪审员审议了不到三个小时,然后发现他犯有谋杀罪,使用致命武器的意图是促进,进一步或协助犯罪团伙。63岁的他可能面临终身监禁的最高刑罚。
宣读判决时,戴维斯和他的律师站在一起,然后双手紧握放在桌子上。
克拉克县地方法院法官Carli Kierny将戴维斯的判决定在10月13日
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警方和检察官指控戴维斯,一个公认的洛杉矶街头帮派的长期领导人,是“枪手”并向枪手提供了谋杀武器。
陪审团在马拉松式的结案陈词一天后于周一退休,只是短暂休息了一下,去了趟洗手间,并从法官Kierny的私人储藏室里给Davis拿了一片止咳糖。
检察官Binu Palal在周一的结案陈词中告诉陪审团,即使没有Davis对他在杀害图派克·夏库尔中所扮演角色的大量供认,该案也“充满了间接证据”和确凿的证人。
帕拉尔认为,这一点,加上戴维斯对警方、媒体以及他自己出版的回忆录中的指控和一致的陈述,压倒性地表明了他的罪行。
“近18年来,杜安·戴维斯告诉警察、电视、书籍、YouTube采访者——任何愿意听的人,他都告诉过——他对图派克·夏库尔的谋杀负有责任,”帕拉尔说。“告诉他你听到了——判他有罪。”
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“在这个特殊的时刻,我们必须问自己这样一个问题:如果杜安·戴维斯真的坦白了——真的坦白了,30年后我们为什么还在这里?”桑夫特说。
桑夫特反复强调他所说的缺乏支持他的当事人有罪主张的真实证据,同时敦促陪审员认定戴维斯无罪,称这是“本案中唯一有意义的判决”。
Jury finds Duane Davis guilty in murder of Tupac Shakur
The jury has foundDuane "Keffe D" Davisguilty in the murder of Tupac Shakur, 30 years after the rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before finding him guilty of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. The 63-year-old faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.
Davis stood with his lawyer as the verdict was read, then sat with his hands clasped on the table.
Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny has set Davis' sentencing for Oct. 13
Prosecutors say Davis did not fire the gun that killed Shakur in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip 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.
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 Judge Kierny's personal stash.
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."
Meanwhile, defense attorney Michael Sanft said that three decades after the drive-by shooting, all prosecutors really have is Davis' alleged confessions -- which aren't worth the paper they're written on.
"We have to ask ourselves the question really at this particular point: Why are we here 30 years later if Duane Davis had actually confessed -- truly confessed?" Sanft said.
Sanft repeatedly emphasized what he said was a lack of real evidence supporting his client's incriminating claims while urging jurors to find Davis not guilty, saying it's the "only verdict that makes sense in this case."





