Tupac murder trial hears 2008 police recording of accused orchestrator's account

Thirty years after one of popular music's most enduring mysteries, a Las Vegas courtroom is now the site where justice—long deferred—attempts to reckon with the death of Tupac Shakur. Duane Davis, the man accused of orchestrating that 1996 drive-by shooting, has become ensnared in a web of his own words: a 2008 police interview, a co-authored memoir, and the contradictions between them. The case raises an ancient question about culpability—whether the hand that passes the weapon bears the same moral and legal weight as the hand that fires it.