Photo: The Canadian Press Duane "Keffe D" Davis, left, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, listens to his attorney Carl Arnold during a hearing to reconsider his bond at the Regional Justice Center, on Tuesday, July. 23, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) Sparks flew in court Tuesday as a Nevada judge rebuked a defense attorney and an ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader lashed out against prosecutors during his renewed effort to be freed from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur.
Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny, who last month rejected Duane “Keffe D” Davis' bid to have a hip-hop music figure put up $112,500 to obtain Davis' $750,000 bail bond, promised a decision on the bond question “in the next day or two.” First, though, she expressed doubts about the source of Davis' funds and scolded defense lawyer Carl Arnold — accusing him of playing up the case to keep media attention on one of hip-hop music's most enduring mysteries. “It seems like your plan, your end goal here, is to make some kind of show for the press of this trial,” Kierny said.
“That’s not my end goal here, your honor,” Arnold responded. “My end goal is to win the trial. If they want to follow me with cameras, they can do that.
” Arnold was recently featured in a British tabloid report that said he was fielding offers for a film crew t.