(CN) — The man accused of orchestrating the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur will not be allowed to suppress statements he made in a 2019 book that he wrote about his time as a gang leader in Southern California after a hearing in Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District on Tuesday.
Clark County Judge Carly Kierny denied a motion to exclude from trial statements that Duane “Keffe D” Davis made about his time as a shot caller for the Southside Compton Crips in his book “Compton Street Legend.” The book, published in 2019, provides a firsthand account of the events leading up to the murders of Shakur in 1996 and Christopher Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls, in 1997.
Attorney Michael Sanft, representing Davis, argued that statements made in his client’s book and later in media interviews should not be taken too literally because they were made to generate book sales…