By JESSICA HILL<\/p>\n
LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A Nevada judge ruled on Tuesday that the recording of an interview the man accused of killing Tupac Shakur gave to police in 2008 could be used at his upcoming trial.<\/p>\n
Judge Carli Kierny found that the interview is admissible in Duane \u201cKeffe D\u201d Davis\u2019 trial, which is scheduled to start Aug. 10.<\/p>\n
Davis, 63, is charged with murder in Shakur\u2019s 1996 killing and faces life in prison without parole if convicted.<\/p>\n
Shakur\u2019s death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the United States. The case went cold until Davis began making public statements about it, including in a book he co-wrote in which he said he was in the Cadillac and provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur.<\/p>\n
Defense attorney Michael Sanft argued that a 2008 interview Davis gave law enforcement was supposed to be confidential, and that detectives explicitly told him the interview was not supposed to be used against him.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors argued there was no basis to exclude the interview from the trial, which is expected to take about four weeks.<\/p>\n
The interview was used in former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading\u2019s book \u201cMurder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.\u201d Portions of the recording were also played in documentaries, including the recent documentary \u201cSean Combs: The Reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shakur was killed Sept. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas. He and Death Row Records founder Marion \u201cSuge\u201d Knight were sitting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up beside them near the Las Vegas Strip, and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. Knight survived with minor injuries.<\/p>\n