Secret Keefe D Tupac Confession Tape Blindsides His Attorney

Last year West Coast gangster Duane "Keefe D" Davis was arrested in connection to the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas [click here if you missed that]. 

Apparently Las Vegas Metro Police have a 15-year-old recording of Keefe admitting being in the car when it pulled up alongside Tupac and gunfire rang out...

From The Sun

GANGSTER Keefe D did not tell his lawyer that he had given a confession about his alleged key role in killing Tupac Shakur to Las Vegas cops in 2009 - in another shocking development in the case.

However his lawyer has hit back - insisting that Duane "Keefe D" Davis' second taped confession does not bring anything new to the murder trial - and in fact, proves that police officers didn't have enough proof for a conviction.

Keefe, who appeared in court this week, previously admitted on tape to a Las Vegas Metro Police officer that he and his gang "got to shooting" when they pulled up next to Tupac on the Las Vegas strip in 1996.

The tape contradicts what was said in court this week - as lawyer Carl Arnold argued that Keefe was not even in Las Vegas at the time of the shooting.

The newly discovered recording has not yet been submitted into evidence in the case - but was played on an ABC News special about Tupac.

Evidence custodians confirmed that the tape was not in their department and the Clark County District Attorney had not filed any paperwork into the court proceedings.

Lawyer Arnold dismissed suggestions that this tape was a "bombshell blow" to his client, adding that it was not proof of any crime.

Arnold confirmed that he was unaware of the existence of the tape and interview that Keefe gave to Metro officers in 2009.

However, he said he had received a transcript and audio copy.

Arnold, speaking exclusively, brushed off the significance of the admission.

“Bottom line, I am in the process of preparing a motion to dismiss [this evidence if it is entered into the case], because what information is new?" he told The U.S. Sun.

"They sat on this for all those years and didn't do anything about it all these years.

"It totally depleted his right to have a fair trial because firstly, everybody is dead. People (who were in the car) who could confirm or deny this are dead.

"Metro waited 15 years since this 2009 interview to prosecute him. I mean, come on.

"From what information I have, there was no agreement [not to prosecute] so why did Metro not arrest him in 2009 when he was sitting there?

“It goes back to what I've always said. They knew that they didn't have enough evidence to convict him, and did not try to prosecute with that information right then. Their evidence is circumstantial.”