Tupac: The trial wrap-up

So we have our conviction, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, convicted of murder in the first degree with supplying a deadly weapon.

Initial reactions from you?

[laughs] Well, luckily, you and I have talked throughout the course of the trial, and was I shocked that there was a conviction? Not really.

If you would have told me this before the trial and looking at the evidence, I probably would've been more shocked.

I think probably the most shock was the quickness of the verdict.

Three hours on a two-week trial is a pretty quick verdict.

So yes and no, I guess, to answer your questions.

Yeah.

I mean, we were texting, and you were like, "Usually a quick verdict means not guilty."

Usually, and of course, we say usually.

There's always different types of rules.

But usually, when a jury is sitting there, just think of your common sense.

If you're about to send a man away for life, you're gonna spend a little longer than three hours thinking about it.

So usually, if you're gonna cut someone loose, three hours, you're like, "All right.

I can let him loose." But if you want someone to spend the rest of their life in prison, you would think that a jury would spend a lot more time, unless they're really convinced he did it, and they were really convinced he did it.

You gotta remember that, like, an hour of that was lunch as well.

Yeah.

And yeah, they got to eat, got a little sandwich, got to hang out in the Vegas heat.

Yeah, I mean, insanely quick.

But I just wanna go over some of the stuff that I was thinking about during it.

So first of all, during opening statements, we went through first-degree murder and also second-degree murder, and then there was a consideration about premeditation because premeditation is removed when it's second-degree murder, right?

Correct.

You're exactly right.

It's murder without the premeditation.

And so I was thinking, premeditation, obviously they're driving around.