Davis faces sentencing Tuesday in the Tupac Shakur murder conviction.

A sentencing date after a guilty verdict is the penalty hearing. It is not a new trial. News 3 Las Vegas reported Monday that Davis is due before Judge Carli Kierny on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, after an August conviction for murder with a deadly weapon in Shakur's death. Rolling Out and iHeartRadio reported he could face life and that District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said the minimum is 40 years. A minimum quoted before the hearing is not the sentence until the judge imposes one.

News 3 Las Vegas reported Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, that the Clark County District Court will sentence Duane Davis, also known as Keffe D, on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas. The station reported Judge Carli Kierny will impose the term after a 12-person jury found him guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur, who was 25 when he was shot in 1996. News 3 reported Davis is the only person charged in the killing. A sentencing calendar is process. It is not the punishment until it is announced.

Rolling Out, citing iHeartRadio with additional reporting from the BBC and DW, reported that jurors in August convicted Davis of one count of murder with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors did not claim he pulled the trigger. They argued he ordered the attack and supplied the gun used by his nephew, Orlando Anderson, who died in 1998 and was never charged. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said Davis faces a minimum of 40 years, Rolling Out reported, and that prosecutors did not pursue additional gang-related penalties because of Davis's age. Those are the prosecution's announced range. They are not Tuesday's judgment.

News 3 Las Vegas reported prosecutors said Davis wanted to retaliate after a brawl involving Anderson at a Las Vegas casino, and that they relied on Davis's own accounts in police interviews, documentaries, a book, and podcasts. Wolfson said after the verdict, "The strength of our case was Mr. Davis, and all of the interviews and the book-writing and the podcasts and his mouth," News 3 reported. Defense attorney Michael Sanft argued at trial that no witness or independent physical evidence placed Davis in Las Vegas at the time of the shooting or in the suspect car, News 3 reported. After the verdict, Davis said he planned to appeal, News 3 and Rolling Out reported. An appeal notice is not a new trial.

Shakur was shot on Sept. 7, 1996, while riding near the Las Vegas Strip and died on Sept. 13, Rolling Out reported. Davis was arrested in September 2023 after a July search of a Henderson home connected to him, becoming the first person charged after nearly three decades, Rolling Out reported. Before trial he waived jury sentencing, News 3 reported, so the judge alone will set the prison term. News 3 also reported the court is again using a lottery for public seats and that overflow viewing will stream on a monitor. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.