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Davis’ attorney, Carl Arnold, said his client’s accounts of the killing were “fiction” and prosecutors lacked key evidence to obtain a murder conviction.
“He himself is giving different stories,” Arnold told reporters outside a courtroom following a brief status check with his client in front of a Nevada judge.
“We haven’t seen more than just his word,” Arnold said of Davis’ police and media interviews since 2008 in which prosecutors say he incriminated himself in Shakur’s killing — including Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir of life leading a street gang in Compton, California.
Prosecutor Binu Palal did not immediately comment outside court about Arnold’s statements. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said evidence against Davis is strong and it will be up to a jury to decide the credibility of Davis’ accounts.
Arnold said his client wanted to make money with his story, so he embellished or outright lied about his involvement in the car-to-car shooting that killed Shakur.
Davis was arrested in September 2023 outside his home in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada, after a search was executed at the home in connection to Shakur’s murder in July.
He pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charge and has a tentative trial date set for Nov. 4.
Davis’ bail was set at $750,000 and he was granted house arrest in January, however he is still being held at the Clark County Detention Center, according to a local news report.
