Keefe D is back in court, and once again, he is fighting to keep his own words out of the trial that could send him to prison for orchestrating Tupac’s murder.
The South Side Crips member appeared Tuesday in Las Vegas for a hearing focused entirely on what evidence prosecutors can actually use against him, and his legal team is trying to block some of the most damaging material.
According to FOX5 Vegas, his attorneys want to exclude his police interviews and his tell-all book “Compton Street Legend” from the trial, claiming both were protected under a previous agreement with the LAPD.
The problem for Keefe D is that prosecutors say he violated that agreement by publishing the book in the first place.
They’re arguing that once he went public with those confessions and details, the protection disappeared, and now they want to use everything he said to prove he’s the “shot-caller” who ordered Tupac’s death after his nephew Orlando Anderson got into a fight with the rapper at the MGM Grand back in 1996.
The prosecutors aren’t backing down on this one.
What’s making things more difficult for Keefe D is that prosecutors just dropped over 4,000 pages of records related to Biggie Smalls’ murder on his defense team the day before the hearing.
They claim some of it connects to Tupac’s case and Keefe D’s involvement.
His attorneys are already complaining about the timing and the volume, saying they can’t properly review everything before the trial starts on August 10.
The defense team says they’re ready to go, but they’re clearly frustrated with how much material keeps showing up at the last minute.
Keefe D’s been locked up since his September 2023 arrest, nearly 27 years after Tupac got shot in that drive-by on the Vegas strip.
His book is basically what triggered the whole grand jury investigation that led to his indictment in the first place, and now it’s become the prosecution’s best weapon against him.
He’s pleaded not guilty and claimed his innocence in jailhouse interviews, but the evidence keeps piling up.
The next court date is set for June 30.
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