Gene Deal, the former bodyguard of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, is currently facing trial for the murder of Tupac Shakur, which he has pleaded not guilty to. Amid both sides of the court’s efforts to make their cases, there has been a considerable amount of speculation regarding where things might go next. One of these claims is from Duane "Keefe D" Davis, who recently spoke to The Art Of Dialogue in an interview.
In it, he claimed he’s facing pressure to testify in the Keefe D trial and speak on Duane "Keefe D"’s alleged involvement in Tupac’s murder. Furthermore, Deal alleged prosecutors want him to take the stand and speak on Eric “Von Zip” Martin being the alleged middleman between Keefe and Sean Combs.
“They want to put an association with Keefe D and Diddy," he alleged. "What they wanted Diddy at that time for is, Diddy would be the scapegoat of why there was such a thing called the East Coast and West Coast war. If he had Tupac killed, if he put up the money for Tupac to be killed, then it’s easier for them to say the gangbangers and somebody associated with Death Row killed Biggie. So now, we got to keep this going. We got to use Keefe D and his association with Diddy," he stated.
Deal further elaborated that prosecutors are pushing for him to testify on the Keefe D trial and address the alleged connection between Diddy and Keefe D, emphasizing the East Coast/West Coast conflict. He stated that the pressure to testify was intense, and the prosecutors want him to speak on Eric “Von Zip” Martin being the alleged middleman between Keefe and Sean Combs.
“We got to keep their association going along with each other," Gene Deal continued. "So that’s why he was saying that they wanted Diddy. [Biggie Smalls’ mother] had that $400 million lawsuit against the LAPD. So they wanted to implicate Diddy in that whole stuff with Keefe D so they can get out of that whole situation of that lawsuit. They want me to show that Keefe D and Diddy had a relationship [and] establish what I know about Keefe D and Puff with each other, when they’re around each other, gambling, laughing, drinking… The whole nine yards… The lawyers' job is to get up there and make his client as innocent as he possibly can… Keefe D wasn’t never no crip. Keefe D stopped cripping when he was 17 years old."
Gene Deal has criticized Diddy’s misconduct before. But these comments suggest he doesn’t think Combs had anything to do with 'Pac's murder, and it seems like he has an issue with how this trial has been going so far. We will see how arguments on both sides continue to evolve.
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