Ex-gang leader charged with killing Tupac Shakur asks judge for house arrest before trial

nypost.com:

pleaded not guilty to a murder charge and has remained jailed without bail since his arrest Sept. 29 outside his home in suburban Henderson, where Las Vegas police had served a search warrant in mid-July.

He is the only person ever charged with a crime in the shooting that also wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.Prosecutors allege in a court filing submitted last week that jail telephone recordings and a list of names provided to Davis’ family members show that there are witnesses at risk of harm if Davis was released.They also called attention to Davis’ own words since 2008 — in police interviews, in his 2019 tell-all memoir and in the media — which provides strong evidence that he orchestrated the September 1996 drive-by shooting.Knight, now 58, is serving 28 years in a California prison for an unrelated shooting that killed a Compton businessman in 2015.Meanwhile Davis is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, where detainees’ phone calls are routinely recorded.

If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in a Nevada state prison.In a recording of an October call, prosecutors say Davis’ son said the defendant gave a “green light” authorization to kill Shakur.

Prosecutors Marc DiGiacomo and Binu Palal said federal authorities “stepped in and provided resources to at least (one witness) so he could change his residence.”There is no reference in the court filing to Davis instructing anyone to harm someone, or to anyone associated with the case being physically harmed.One of Davis’ defense attorneys, Robert Arroyo, told The Associated Press he did not see evidence that any witness had been named or threatened.Davis is originally from Compton, California.